Additional BACnet AWS Supervisor features

Apart from the different manager views on the BacnetAwsNetwork, and device extensions Trend Logs and Config for each BacnetAwsDevice (supporting additional BACnet object types), a BacnetAwsNetwork also supports the following:

Configurable threads for polling

If needed, in a BacnetAwsNetwork (or BacnetOwsNetwork) you can configure for more than two processing threads for the Poll Service used by the Bacnet Comm’s network port—that is, the IpPort and/or Ethernet port. Find this on the property sheet of the Poll Scheduler component, as shown in Figure A.18.

Figure A.18. Number Of Threads property in a port’s PollService is configurable over 2, if needed

In a regular BacnetNetwork (typically hosted by a JACE), this property is fixed (read-only) at 2 threads. In some cases with the BacnetAwsNetwork hosted by the PC platform of a BACnet AWS Supervisor (or with the BacnetOwsNetwork hosted by the PC platform of a BACnet OWS Supervisor), increasing this number over 2 may provide some performance enhancements.

For related details, see Basic Bacnet polling design.

Configurable threads for proxy point writes

If needed, in a BacnetAwsNetwork (or BacnetOwsNetwork) you can configure the number of processing threads to be used for proxy point writes. In a regular BacnetNetwork (typically hosted by a JACE), this is fixed at a single thread: the “writeWorker” thread.

For any Bacnet network, the “WriteWorker” component is a “hidden” slot. To access it from the property sheet, go to the network’s slot sheet and clear the hidden flag, as shown in Figure A.19.

Figure A.19. Clearing hidden flag from slot sheet of BacnetAwsNetwork

Then from the network’s property sheet, expand the Write Worker container for child properties.

Figure A.20. Write Worker for BacnetAwsNetwork (or BacnetOwsNetwork) has “Max Threads” property

As shown in Figure A.20, the default “Max Threads” value for the Write Worker in a BacnetAwsNetwork is 4 threads. You can adjust it upwards if needed. This may be useful if you have a large number of writable Bacnet proxy points that are configured in their tuning policy to writeOnStart.