SARBAU Towards Highly Self-Configuring IP-Fieldbus Based Building Automation Networks

The SARBAU project is a study on a highly self configuring building automation and control network using IP as field level protocol. UPnP will be used for device operation and control. The paper gives an overview on the SARBAU approach. Current work-in-progress including wired and wireless experimental device hardware is presented. A focus of this paper is "nearly automatic configuration". Using intelligent commissioning software and optional device localisation, we propose highly automated device commissioning and binding schemes.