This article explains how you can locally connect to your BACnet/IP-compatible machine in the machine network (LAN side of the IXON edge gateway) from a device in the corporate network (WAN side of the IXON edge gateway).

If you're looking to do this remotely over the VPN connection, see this article instead: Connect to your machine using BACnet/IP.
If you are instead to log machine data using BACnet/IP, see this article instead: BACnet/IP data source setup.

• Information
• Instructions

Information

The edge gateway cannot function as BBMD (BACnet Broadcast Management Device) for communication between WAN (corporate network) and LAN (machine network). As a result, BACnet/IP discovery or exploration is not possible. However, BACnet/IP communication on IP-basis is possible.

In your BACnet/IP software this setting may be called "remote BACnet/IP node" or simply "device", depending on the software. If your software does not have this option, you cannot connect to BACnet devices in the machine network from the corporate network. Luckily, there are plenty BACnet/IP software programs publicly available, like Cimetrics Bacnet Explorer or Yet Another Bacnet Explorer.

Instructions

Once you've set up your edge gateway and connected your BACnet device to one of the LAN ports, you're ready to continue.

1. Configure the edge gateway to allow for communication from WAN to LAN by either adding a 1:1 NAT rule or by adding a port forwarding.
   • BACnet/IP's default port is 47808.
2. From the device in the corporate network (WAN side of the edge gateway), connect to your BACnet device.