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Development of building thermal environment emulator to evaluate the performance of the HVAC system operation
Published in Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 2019
Eisuke Togashi, Masato Miyata
A VPN is a private network that is virtually established on a public network. Using a VPN, a server and client can communicate as if they were on the same local network. Although a port for a VPN must be opened, because this is a communication technology commonly used in a wide variety of fields, there will likely to be fewer barriers to doing so than for opening ports for BBMD communication. Based on this advantage, the proposed emulator system implements remote communication via VPN using the network configuration shown in Figure 4, in which a connection is established by installing VPN software to the server and client and is used to perform BACnet communication. The past operational data of the emulator and a list of BACnet device port numbers are downloadable from a Web server.