Description

Smart I/O and BACnet to MQTT Gateway

Control Solutions’ ValuPoint VP6-1470 connects physical I/O (e.g. sensors) to the Internet. In addition, the VP6-1470 turns any BACnet device into a Thing on the Internet of Things. The VP6-1470 will continuously monitor connected sensors. The VP6-1470 will also poll one or more BACnet MS/TP and/or BACnet IP devices, collecting data from the list of objects you provide. Based on rules you create, the VP6-1470 will decide if and when to publish that data to the MQTT broker (server). You can also configure the VP6-1470 MQTT client to subscribe to data coming from the MQTT broker, which you can then write out to BACnet devices to manage setpoints and the like.

ThingsBoard Support

The VP6-1470 MQTT client includes support for ThingsBoard’s unique MQTT API that allows you to connect your BACnet objects to dashboard widgets such as gauges, knobs, buttons, and charts. Learn more about ThingsBoard here.

AWS IoT Support

The VP6-1470 includes everything necessary to connect to Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT support using MQTT. Once the IoT connection is made, your BACnet data can make its way to an AWS database, AWS notification services (e.g. email alerts, text messages), and a variety of analytics tools including QuickSight which makes it quite easy to quickly graph your data. Learn more about AWS IoT here.

Mosquitto MQTT Support

The VP6-1470 MQTT client works well with the widely used open source community supported Mosquitto MQTT broker available at https://mosquitto.org. Simply turn off features unique to ThingsBoard or AWS IoT when using Mosquitto MQTT.

Cloud Not Required!

The VP6-1470 is also suitable for stand-alone remote monitoring use. The VP6-1470 includes alarm monitoring with email notifications using its internal secure email client, local data logging with CSV files emailed to you instead of sending data to the cloud, and a real time scheduler for date and time scheduling.

Feature Highlights
• MQTT Client supports AWS IoT Core, Mosquitto MQTT, ThingsBoard
• Simple template based setup of MQTT Publish and Subscribe
• 12 Analog/universal inputs, software selectable types
• 2 Discrete outputs
• BACnet IP to MS/TP Router and Gateway
• BACnet Client and Server
• Secure local email client
• Local data logging
• Real time scheduler
• User HTML support for adding custom web pages
• Configure via secure web pages
• FCC, CE Mark, UL 916 Listed