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Anniversary – 30 years of BACnet Jubiläum – 30 Jahre BACnet

Contemporary Controls and BACnet: A Shared

Journey in Building Automation

Contemporary Controls und BACnet: Eine

gemeinsame Reise in der Gebäudeautomation

George Thomas, President and founder Another turning point came at an AHR Expo in About Contemporary Controls
of Contemporary Controls, reflects on the Chicago in mid-2000. I attended a session titled,
Company’s Evolution into Building Automation “Introduction to BACnet,” and learned BACnet Contemporary Controls designs and manufactures
and BACnet. was an open standard for building automation the system building blocks for networking,
George Thomas, Präsident und Gründer von that supported both MS/TP and ARCNET. I was integrating and controlling automation processes.
Contemporary Controls, blickt auf die Ent- immediately intrigued, since ARCNET had become We are headquartered in the U.S. and have
wicklung des Unternehmens in Richtung a major part of our business in the last decade. wholly-owned operations in the UK, Germany,
Gebäudeautomation und BACnet zurück. I also appreciated the openness of the BACnet and China, with self-manufacturing in the US and
standard and was impressed with the number China. With more than 50 years of experience
When I started Contemporary Controls in 1975, of companies endorsing it. At Contemporary and global operations serving the Americas,
building automation wasn’t a clearly defined Controls, we’ve always focused on supporting EMEA, and APAC, Contemporary Controls is a
field, at least not in the way we know it today. open protocols that promote interoperability in trusted source for reliable, high-performance
Currently, if your product doesn’t support automation systems. networking and control solutions. 
BACnet, you won’t even be considered for many
projects. It’s become a baseline requirement. My team and I walked the show floor and www.ccontrols.com
realized we needed to be part of this community. Contact us at: ccg.info@ccontrols.com
In 1975, we were a systems integration and Even though we were still on the fringes of the
consulting business focused on microcomputer building automation industry (pursuing Ethernet Als ich 1975 Contemporary Controls gründete,
and PLC applications for industrial and process and ARCNET), we fully realized the importance war Gebäudeautomation kein klar definiertes
automation. By 1985, we transitioned into of BACnet and the growing demand for open, Feld, zumindest nicht in der Form, wie wir es
hardware manufacturing, developing STD-BUS interoperable building automation systems. heute kennen. Heutzutage wird ihr Produkt für
microcomputer modules. We’ve been exhibiting at AHR Expo ever since viele Projekte nicht einmal in Betracht gezogen,
and are proud members of BACnet International wenn es nicht BACnet unterstützt. BACnet ist zu
It’s amazing how much success can come from and the BIG-EU. einer grundlegenden Anforderung geworden.
simply being in the right place at the right time.
In the late 1980s, while exhibiting our ARCNET In 2007, we introduced the BASremote which 1975 waren wir ein Systemintegrations- und
for Control product line at the Instrumentation allowed BACnet devices to connect to IP/Ethernet Beratungsunternehmen, das sich auf Mikrocom-
Society of America (ISA) show, someone networks. In 2008, we introduced the BASrouter puter- und SPS-Anwendungen für die industri-
stopped by our stand and told us that we should which is a BACnet/IP to BACnet MS/TP router elle und Prozessautomatisierung konzentrierte.
talk to Johnson Controls because they were based upon a portable router design. We 1985 begannen wir mit der Hardwareproduk-
using ARCNET. continue to expand our BASautomation line of tion und entwickelten STD-BUS Mikrocompu-
®
BACnet controllers, routers, and gateways that ter-Module.
I met with Johnson Controls, and that meeting are built upon BACnet and designed to meet the
led to us to manufacture ARCNET adapters for evolving needs of modern building management Es ist erstaunlich, wie viel Erfolg man einfach
their first Metasys system. And just like that, we systems and smart buildings. durch das richtige Timing erzielen kann. Ende
were in the building automation industry. der 1980er Jahre, als wir unsere ARCNET für
Control-Produktreihe auf der Messe der Instru-
ment Society of America (ISA) ausstellten, kam
jemand an unseren Stand und sagte uns, dass
wir mit Johnson Controls sprechen sollten, da
sie ARCNET einsetzten.

Ich traf mich mit Johnson Controls, und dieses
Treffen führte dazu, dass wir ARCNET-Adapter
für ihr erstes Metasys-System herstellten. Und so
kamen wir in die Gebäudeautomationsbranche.

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