Babel Buster BB3-7302-V2C BACnet Router plus SNMP Gateway

Description

Control Solutions’ Babel Buster BB3-7302-V2C is a an enhanced BACnet router and gateway with advanced features to support connecting BACnet IP and MS/TP to SNMP v1 and v2c.

The BB3-7302-V2C as a BACnet Router will route IP to MS/TP and vice versa via its local ports, and supports full router capability for multi-hop internetworks including via NAT WAN routers. Routing is simple to set up. Routing can be used without any other gateway features enabled. Routing can be configured or automatically learned.

The BB3-7302-V2C as a BACnet Client/Server Gateway will poll BACnet IP and/or BACnet MS/TP slaves or servers, and retain copies of selected object properties. Upstream clients may then query the BB3-7302-V2C to receive data originating from multiple devices.

The BB3-7302-V2C includes an SNMP client that can read and write MIB variables in other SNMP devices. When reading, the remote device’s data will be stored in a local object. When writing, data  will be taken from a local object and sent to the remote SNMP device via SNMP Set.

The BB3-7302-V2C includes an automatic table walker with multiple algorithms making it suitable for walking the sparse alarm table found in UPS systems implementing RFC 1628. The table walker can easily translate the alarm table into a series of BACnet objects for easy access by a BMS.

The BB3-7302-V2C includes a trap receiver supporting both v1 and v2c traps. The template driven trap receiver provides multiple algorithms for recognizing traps, and can easily place trap information into BACnet objects.

The BB3-7302-V2C is itself an SNMP device. Local BACnet objects can be assigned to either of the branches of the local MIB for remote access by other SNMP clients. The local data may be accessed as scaled integer or 32-bit floating point (RFC 6340). An SNMP Get to the BB3-7302-V2C will read local objects and an SNMP Set will write the local objects. If local objects are mapped via BACnet to write to other BACnet devices, then SNMP Set will result in writing to a BACnet device.

The BB3-7302-V2C can send v1 or v2c traps based on threshold rules created via templates in the BB3-7302-V2C’s web UI. When data in the local objects meets the rule criteria, the trap will be sent. Traps can be triggered by reading other BACnet devices or by any other source of local data including the SNMP client.

Babel Buster BB3-7302-V2C is UPS Friendly

The alarm table in a typical UPS system cannot be directly polled due to the fact that alarm table entries are only present while alarms are present, and attempts to poll the alarm data with no alarms present will result in errors. The table walker in the BB3-7302-V2C has the intelligence to scan the alarm table for alarms, and set BACnet Binary objects to Active when alarms are found, and automatically clear Binary objects to Inactive after a timeout when not found.

In addition to walking the alarm table of a UPS, the trap receiver in the BB3-7302-V2C can effectively translate SNMP Traps into BACnet COV notifications. The combination of trap receiver and BACnet client also means SNMP Traps can result in writing status information to objects in other BACnet devices

The BB3-73-V2C includes its own internal web server that provides a web based user interface for configuring the BB3-7302-V2C. Configuration is done using simple templates, and each web page has an online help section at the bottom.

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