Sierra Monitor Corp., a clean technology company that designs, manufactures and sells electronic safety and environmental instrumentation, announced that its subsidiary FieldServer Technologies (FST), a major manufacturer of gateways for the building automation and process controls industries, has joined the Crestron Electronics Integrated Partner Program to provide interoperability solutions when interfacing to other building automation and control networks and devices.
FST enables communication between various instruments, systems, and devices that utilize non-compatible data protocols. By using the FieldServer gateway, Crestron is able to bring together information from other devices using such protocols as LonWorks and BACnet enabling them to operate seamlessly in a commercial or residential Crestron control solution environment. By uniting all of the building sub-systems onto a single platform, the integrator can provide a single point of local or remote control via Ethernet using Crestron touch panels, web tablets, keypads or PC via browser.
FieldServer serves as a link between two or more different devices, acting as a client and server simultaneously. FieldServer products feature rich protocol translator gateways enabling data transfer between the output from Crestron products and an extensive library of other serial and Ethernet protocols used in building automation, HVAC, fire and process control industries.