Verkada Air Quality sensors offer organizations a way to monitor essential indoor air quality factors such as CO2, CO, PM2.5, AQI, TVOC, and formaldehyde. BACnet integration allows Verkada Air Quality sensors to inform a building’s HVAC system about an air quality metric, or any sensor reading for that matter, thus allowing the building HVAC to respond to these indoor air quality conditions. Verkada air quality sensors can integrate with the popular building management system (BMS) protocol BACnet. By integrating Verkada's air quality sensors with this popular protocol, organizations’ HVAC systems can now automatically respond to suboptimal air conditions.
Your building must have a Building Automation System which is compatible with BACnet IP to use this integration.
Verkada recommends you talk with your HVAC specialist to understand if your system is supported.
If you are unsure or need help, please contact Verkada Support.
Learn more about Verkada's BACnet integration here.
In this article:
How to enable BACnet for your organization using the Feature Manager
To be able to activate the BACnet functionality on your sensors, you first need to enable the BACnet feature for your organization.
From the All Products menu, select the Admin page
Select the Privacy & Security tab
Click on the Feature Manager
Under the Air Quality section, find Sensor BACnet and change it from Disable to Enable
How to enable BACnet on a Verkada Air Quality Sensor
Once the BACnet feature is enabled for your organization, you're ready to enable it on your devices.
To enable BACnet for your sensors, you will first need to navigate to the sensors dashboard from the All Products menu.
From the All Products menu, select Air Quality
Click on the sensor you want to enroll into BACnet
Edit its settings by clicking on the gear icon from the top right corner of the page
The option for BACnet should be available on the left-hand pane (if you do not see the BACnet option, ensure the device is an SV21, SV23, or SV25 and ensure BACnet is enabled for your organization).
Select Enable from the dropdown to enable the feature for the sensor
Next, assign a unique BACnet Device ID so that your sensor can be identified on your BAS/BMS
The Device ID is used to identify the device on the BACnet network, therefore, each Verkada Sensor should have a unique Device ID in the range of 0 - 4194302.
Then, assign a BACnet port.
The default BACnet port is 47808, which is a commonly used UDP port for BACnet/IP, but it can also be any number in the range of 47808–47823. It is recommended that the UDP port stays unchanged since the default value is mainly used.
Click Apply to save your changes
BACnet should now be enabled on the device
Anything on the BACnet server can now poll the device for properties
How to disable BACnet on a Verkada Air Quality Sensor
To disable BACnet for your sensors, you will first need to navigate to the sensors dashboard from the All Products menu.
From the All Products menu, select Air Quality
Click on the sensor you want to disable BACnet for
Edit its settings by clicking on the gear icon from the top right corner of the page
Click BACnet on the left-hand pane
Select Disable from the dropdown to disable the feature for the sensor
Click Apply to save your changes
BACnet is now disabled on your device
BACnet PICS
BACnet Standardized Device Profile (Annex L):
Smart Sensor BIBB Device profile: B-SS
List all BACnet Interoperability Building Blocks Supported (Annex K):
Data sharing & Device and network management services
DS-RP-B
DM-DDB-B
DM-DOB-B
Segmentation Capability
Segmented requests supported: No Window Size
Segmented responses supported: No Window Size
Standard Object Types Supported:
An object type is supported if it is present in the device.
Supported Models | Name | Object Type | Instance | Units |
SV23, SV25 | Vape Index | AnalogInput | 1 | No Units |
SV21, SV23, SV25 | Temperature (F) | AnalogInput | 2 | Degrees Fahrenheit |
SV21, SV23, SV25 | Temperature (C) | AnalogInput | 3 | Degrees Celsius |
SV21, SV23, SV25 | Humidity | AnalogInput | 4 | % Relative Humidity |
SV21, SV23, SV25 | CO2 | AnalogInput | 5 | ppm |
SV25 | Carbon Monoxide | AnalogInput | 6 | ppm |
SV23, SV25 | Noise | AnalogInput | 7 | dB |
SV23, SV25 | AQI | AnalogInput | 8 | No Units |
SV23, SV25 | TVOC Index | AnalogInput | 9 | No Units |
SV23, SV25 | PM 2.5 | AnalogInput | 10 | μg/m^3 |
SV21, SV23, SV25 | Tamper | AnalogInput | 11 | No Units |
SV23, SV25 | Motion | AnalogInput | 12 | No Units |
SV25 | Light | AnalogInput | 13 | Lux |
SV25 | Pressure | AnalogInput | 14 | Hectopascal |
SV25 | Formaldehyde | AnalogInput | 15 | ppb |
Device
Object Type | ID | Object Name |
Device: | <user-specified-id-in-command> | <device-serial-number> |
Dynamically Creatable: No
Dynamically Deletable: No
Data Link Layer Options:
BACnet IP, (Annex J)
Device Address Binding:
Is static device binding supported? (This is currently necessary for two-way communication with MS/TP slaves and certain other devices.)
No
Character Sets Supported:
Indicating support for multiple character sets does not imply that they can all be supported simultaneously.
ISO 10646 (UTF-8)