The Bacnet Local Device is a frozen slot under the BacnetNetwork that represents the station externally. In general, this means providing BACnet server responses to remote client requests (from other BACnet devices on a connected network).

Essentially, every component outside the Bacnet Local Device represents BACnet client operation. Client operation is done with BacnetDevice objects, child proxy points, and so on.

The Local Device has many properties, plus other container slots, briefly described in the following sections: