Duplication issues can be tricky to diagnose and cause some serious issues: they can occur across many different hardware scenarios, and they tend not to show up as a clear indicator in manual troubleshooting procedures.
Troubleshooting a BACnet network is like being a detective. To quote the great TV detective Columbo, “There’s a reasonable explanation for everything if you just put your mind to it.” So, when things start acting “weird” on your BACnet system, there’s almost always a “reasonable” explanation for what’s happening. In our experience, duplicate BACnet addressing is one of the first reasonable things to look for.
Duplicate BACnet addressing occurs when two or more devices are unintentionally assigned the same designation – appearing to the rest of the network as one device. Duplication issues can be tricky to diagnose on their own: they can occur across many different hardware scenarios, something as simple as a lack of coordination between vendors, and tend not to appear as an obvious symptom in manual troubleshooting. Fortunately, OptigoVN makes finding duplication a breeze.
Let’s look at three common forms of duplication – duplicate device addressing, duplicate BACnet instance numbers, and duplicate network numbers – and how you can use OptigoVN Site Scopes to resolve them in minutes instead of days.
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