Com­mu­ni­ca­tion net­works are used to man­age and con­trol build­ing facil­i­ties in an effec­tive man­ner. The build­ing automa­tion con­trol net­work (BAC­net) is a stan­dard data com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­col designed specif­i­cal­ly for build­ing automa­tion sys­tems, and plays an impor­tant role as a rep­re­sen­ta­tive build­ing net­work. How­ev­er, BAC­net does not sup­port a wire­less chan­nel, which would bring about sev­er­al advan­tages, includ­ing reduced instal­la­tion cost and eased place­ment con­straints on the trans­ceivers, as well as the intro­duc­tion of flex­i­ble exten­sions and mobile device con­nec­tiv­i­ty. Cur­rent­ly, the intro­duc­tion and stan­dard­iza­tion of Zig­Bee as a BAC­net wire­less chan­nel is under con­sid­er­a­tion by both the BAC­net and Zig­Bee orga­ni­za­tions. This paper describes a method of imple­ment­ing a BAC­net-Zig­Bee gateway.

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