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This product is in a design concept phase and will be produced to meet customer demand.  The S4 Group, Inc. is actively soliciting customer comments and ideas to help us determine the final feature set and acceptable price points for the product.

S4 Open: BACnet-N2 Router

S4 Open products from the S4 Group creates flexibility and cost savings to Building Automation systems. The S4 Open: BACnet-N2 Router from the S4 group is the gateway to third party product integration into Metasys^® N2 environments and enables seamless migration to BACnet Control Solutions while preserving existing investment in N2 Bus based infrastructure. In addition built-in Ethernet connectivity offers broader connectivity and the ability to treat your BAS as network-able device. The BACnet-N2 Router introduces cost saving in virtually every upgrade, maintenance, or replacement on the N2 bus.

Use Case: Seamless Migration of Metasys N2 Systems to BACnet

Key Links

• Download the S4 Open appliance White Paper

• Download the S4 Open: BACnet-N2 Router product brochure.

Key Benefits

• All the features and services provided by the S4 Open: N2 Switch.
• An additional upstream BACnet interface is provided
• Filtering and point mapping allow you to expose only a subset of the active points to peer BACnet devices.

Suggested Applications

• Providing aggregation of remote N2 devices for a centralized Metasys system
• Connecting legacy N2 devices to an open architecture BACnet-based Building Automation System.

• Extending the N2 bus over a customers existing Ethernet building infrastructure to remote sections of a building or campus combining all of these segments into one virtual N2 bus. See our Extreme N2 Networking Tech Notes for a list of currently supported devices.

 System Configuration

Delivered as a network appliance on an Industrial PC for high availability and reliability.

• Contact The S4 Group to learn more, to request a 30 day demonstration system delivered directly to you, or to request a price quote.

System Architecture

All S4 Open products are based on a common core technology platform enabling Lego^®-like "mix-and-match" capability for your building automation systems.

The S4 Group's unique Virtual N2 Network^© allows the Building Automation System Designer to take advantage of all the features and strengths of any model of the Johnson Controls, Inc. supervisory controller. In normal operation the S4 Open appliance is completely transparent to the supervisory controller. What the supervisory controller sees on its N2 interface is the switched image of the sum of the N2 devices on all of the Downstream N2 Networks attached to the S4 Open appliance. It has no need to know what ports they were connected to, what media or transport was utilized, or if address translation was performed. As far as it is concerned our Virtual N2 Network^© is a normal, traditional, N2 field bus.

The S4 Group is a member of the Microsoft Windows Embedded Partners Program. All S4 Open appliances are powered by the Windows Embedded Operating System. Microsoft, Windows, and the Windows CE are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries

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