Understand and test BACnet Secure Connect (BACnet/SC) deployment
domain: bacnetinternational.org · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Confirm the baseline: BACnet/SC is defined in ASHRAE Addendum 135-2016bj and layers WebSockets + TLS for peer authentication, encryption, and reliable connection-oriented transport over IPv4/IPv6
Designate one BACnet/SC device as the Primary Hub; configure all other nodes as simple nodes that connect to that hub (hub-and-spoke topology)
Provision TLS certificates/keys for each device using standard TLS peer-authentication practices (analogous to banking-app TLS, per BACnet International's technical description)
Validate interoperability using BACnet International's free, open-source BACnet/SC Reference Implementation and System Test Bench, distributed via SourceForge
Known gotchas
BACnet/SC does not replace BACnet/IP or MS/TP — it's an additional secure datalink option that complements them, so existing networks aren't automatically upgraded
Security depends entirely on correctly issued and rotated certificates — plan a PKI process before rollout rather than treating certs as a one-time setup step
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