From Modbus to BACnet: A Practical Guide to Protocol Integration
How Modbus devices are brought into a BACnet building management system with a protocol gateway, including register-to-object mapping and the data type mistakes that cost commissioning time.
Series 01 — Connectivity Fundamentals
About this webinar
Most building projects have Modbus equipment and a BACnet head-end, and the integration is expected to just work. This session shows how it is actually done: how the gateway sits between the two, how a Modbus register becomes a BACnet object, and which details decide whether commissioning takes a day or a week.
What you will learn
- Modbus RTU and Modbus TCP fundamentals: function codes, registers, addressing
- BACnet/IP and BACnet MS/TP architecture, device instances and object types
- Register-to-object mapping, point naming and a point table that survives handover
- Data types, scaling, byte and word order — where most integration time disappears
- RS-485 trunk design: devices per channel, termination, baud rates
- A live demonstration: Modbus meter to BACnet/IP, read in the BMS
Who should attend
- Automation and BMS engineers
- Engineers new to industrial protocols
- Technical sales and pre-sales engineers
- Facility and maintenance engineers
Agenda
- 10 min — System architecture: where the gateway sits
- 10 min — Protocol fundamentals and terminology
- 15 min — Live configuration demonstration
- 5 min — Common mistakes and how to avoid them
- 5 min — Q&A with the MILESGO technical team
Speaker
MILESGO Technical Academy — industrial connectivity and IIoT engineers, with partner speakers for the industry sessions.
How to attend
Sessions run live per region and on request for a single company or project team, in English or Chinese. Contact MILESGO to be put on the list for the next session, to request this webinar for your team, or to ask for the recording once a session has been held.