BACnet Testing Laboratories (BTL) invites manufacturers of BACnet products to attend the PlugFest Interoperability Workshop. PlugFest is an interoperability event that allows vendors worldwide to come together to test their BACnet products with BACnet devices from other vendors in a neutral and friendly environment. It’s an excellent opportunity to improve your BACnet testing methods and find implementation errors before your product hits the field. The event is taking place from Tuesday, October 14th to Thursday, October 16th at the University of New Hampshire’s Interoperability Lab in Durham, New Hampshire.
BACnet Testing Laboratories Working Group (BTL WG) will be having their quarterly face-to-face meeting the day before PlugFest on Monday, October 13th. Registration is coming soon!
Benefits:
- Test the interoperability of your company’s BACnet products with the BACnet products of other vendors in a friendly and neutral environment.
- Fix implementation errors before they are discovered in the field.
- The BTL Technical Advisor and other BACnet experts will be onsite to assist and answer questions.
- Education opportunities are available.
- Network with fellow engineers and developers.
Special Notes for Corporate Member Registrations and Committee Member Discounts
- You may register yourself and additional colleagues to your team(s). Each attendee must agree to the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) electronically when registering or in writing if being registered by someone else before you are allowed to enter PlugFest.
- Corporate Members of BACnet International in good financial standing are eligible for the member rate discount. If your Corporate Membership Renewal Invoice is open, you will be billed at the non-member rate and refunded once your membership invoice is paid.
- If your company or a team member is not in our database, please register them separately as guests or email the Event Coordinator, Kelsey List, at kelsey@bacnetinternational.org requesting the unique promotional code to receive the correct rate.
- If you, or anyone you are registering, is a member of the BACnet International Board of Directors or an active volunteer on a committee (Education, Marketing, or BTL-WG), please email kelsey@bacnetinternational.org requesting the unique promotional code to receive an additional $50.00 discount off each registration.
- Remember, after successfully registering for the PlugFest Interoperability Workshop, you should receive an event confirmation email. If you do not receive confirmation, we did not receive your registration.
- If you have any questions, please email Kelsey List at kelsey@bacnetinternational.org
Available Discounts:
$450.00 USD for Corporate Members and $50.00 USD for active volunteers (discount can be transferred to any colleague of the volunteer even if the volunteer is not attending PlugFest)*.
*Active volunteers include members of the SSPC 135 Committee, BTL Working Group, BACnet International Marketing Committee, Journal of Building Automation authors, BACnet International conference speakers. Learn more about volunteer opportunities: https://bacnetinternational.org/volunteers/.
What past attendees have said about PlugFest:
“PlugFest has been beneficial to our team. It’s good experience to just work with other vendors to get a sense about how they do their BACnet implementations. We do find issues and see that there are different ways of doing things. It’s pretty definitive to find issues in this type of environment, rather than finding them in the field. Normally, we would never see these other products in our test lab, but integrators in the field do put these products together. This is an opportunity for us to find those types of interoperability issues.”
“The cordiality is one of my favorite aspects about PlugFest. People are more than willing to sit down and talk to you and help one another with very highly technical questions. It’s a chance to interact with our peers that we do not get in the office.”
“PlugFest gives us a great opportunity to find bugs that you can’t find with a desktop tool. You get to test in quasi real-world environments, and it allows you to test your product before you get into the field with it.”