1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:04,320 Like Emily said, I'm Andy. 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:08,240 I'm the product manager for the all things Red five and in the 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:12,920 HVAC enterprise here at DIBT, at Delta IBT. 4 00:00:13,205 --> 00:00:17,045 Before I start, I wanna just see where everybody is with our 5 00:00:17,045 --> 00:00:18,725 product knowledge, 6 00:00:18,725 --> 00:00:20,885 because I don't I wanna make sure that I can tailor this 7 00:00:20,885 --> 00:00:22,325 depending on who's here. 8 00:00:22,325 --> 00:00:24,645 So if you use your thumbs up button, 9 00:00:24,645 --> 00:00:28,360 give me a thumbs up for anybody here that's never heard of 10 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:30,720 the Red five product line. 11 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:33,000 Okay. 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,120 So either people can't find the thumbs up or they've all heard of it. 13 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,360 So that's good. Oh, we got one, and we got a heart. 14 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:41,280 So I like the I like the heart. That makes me feel good. 15 00:00:43,235 --> 00:00:44,035 Okay. Good. 16 00:00:44,035 --> 00:00:45,635 So there's a few people that have never heard of it. 17 00:00:45,635 --> 00:00:48,675 So I'm gonna explain a little bit of what RED five is, 18 00:00:48,675 --> 00:00:51,675 and I'll give you a bit of a, background, 19 00:00:52,275 --> 00:00:55,595 where RED five came from and where we are now. 20 00:00:56,030 --> 00:00:57,590 So today, 21 00:00:58,030 --> 00:01:00,990 we're gonna talk a little bit about our past that'll help 22 00:01:00,990 --> 00:01:04,950 give you some context, to where we're going in the future. 23 00:01:05,150 --> 00:01:07,790 And we're gonna talk a little bit about our Red five pro 24 00:01:07,790 --> 00:01:11,035 program, the Red five field VAV. 25 00:01:11,035 --> 00:01:13,875 Yes. MSTP is still a thing. 26 00:01:13,915 --> 00:01:16,635 Red five edge VAV t one l. 27 00:01:16,635 --> 00:01:20,435 And, I mean, Ethernet on twisted pair? Get out of here. 28 00:01:21,460 --> 00:01:22,820 Red five unitary, 29 00:01:22,820 --> 00:01:26,420 that's gonna be our brand new product line coming up in the future. 30 00:01:26,420 --> 00:01:30,420 And, we'll show you a quick road map of when all these products are 31 00:01:30,420 --> 00:01:33,835 gonna be aligned and when you can expect them, 32 00:01:33,835 --> 00:01:36,235 and we'll follow it up with a q and a at the end. 33 00:01:36,235 --> 00:01:38,955 And as Emily said, just please go ahead and type your chat, 34 00:01:38,955 --> 00:01:40,875 type your question into the chat, 35 00:01:40,875 --> 00:01:42,715 and we'll address them at the end. 36 00:01:42,715 --> 00:01:46,795 Normally, I like to address comments and questions in real 37 00:01:46,795 --> 00:01:49,230 time, but we just have too many people here. 38 00:01:49,230 --> 00:01:52,150 So it'll be easier just to address them at the end. 39 00:01:52,990 --> 00:01:56,030 So this is our current system architecture. 40 00:01:56,030 --> 00:02:00,110 We are going to be playing around in this area today. 41 00:02:00,110 --> 00:02:03,135 We're not really gonna be talking too much about system 42 00:02:03,135 --> 00:02:05,815 level controllers or, 43 00:02:07,295 --> 00:02:09,695 you know, enterprise software or anything like that. 44 00:02:09,695 --> 00:02:14,375 We're gonna be talking about terminal units and unitary products today. 45 00:02:15,100 --> 00:02:20,300 So that means there are VAV, VAV, controllers in, 46 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:24,900 specifically and fan coil controllers later on today. 47 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:29,300 But first, I wanna give you a little bit of history. 48 00:02:29,575 --> 00:02:31,735 So back in the nineties, 49 00:02:31,735 --> 00:02:35,655 we had a VAV line called the IZC, or if you're from the US, 50 00:02:35,655 --> 00:02:37,255 the IZC. 51 00:02:37,255 --> 00:02:41,095 That stood for the IntelliZone controller. 52 00:02:41,095 --> 00:02:43,255 IntelliZone with an I. 53 00:02:43,255 --> 00:02:47,560 And this was our old school VAV 54 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,440 controller ran on a protocol called Micronet, 55 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,080 which was like a twisted twisted pair cabling, 56 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,200 and it was a predecessor to the to the old to our 57 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,445 BACnet VAV controller. 58 00:03:01,445 --> 00:03:03,045 So we had that, you know, 59 00:03:03,045 --> 00:03:04,965 running all through the nineties pretty much until the 60 00:03:04,965 --> 00:03:08,405 early two thousands when it was superseded by the 61 00:03:08,405 --> 00:03:13,245 DVC v three two two and v three zero four. 62 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:18,160 So this is our first foray into the into the BACnet MSTP world. 63 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:19,320 And, 64 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,600 this has really been a flagship product. 65 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,280 I mean, look at the the timeline. 66 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,075 That should give you a hint of when we're gonna phase this product out. 67 00:03:27,075 --> 00:03:31,155 But we've got twenty six years of run time on this particular 68 00:03:31,155 --> 00:03:32,195 VAV controller. 69 00:03:32,195 --> 00:03:35,595 So it really has been our our bread and butter, 70 00:03:36,515 --> 00:03:39,715 and it's a flagship product for us over the years. 71 00:03:39,715 --> 00:03:42,640 So we don't take it lightly when we know that we have to do 72 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:43,680 a successor. 73 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,960 And it really I mean, I'm not I wouldn't be here today, 74 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,600 talking to you guys if it weren't for the DVC product 75 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,360 line, I'm to be honest with you. 76 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:55,160 There's hundreds of hundreds of thousands of these out there in the real world. 77 00:03:56,955 --> 00:04:01,595 Around the, mid twenty tens ish, we came out with a, 78 00:04:01,595 --> 00:04:03,675 what we call the Ntelezone. 79 00:04:03,675 --> 00:04:05,675 That's Ntele with an e. 80 00:04:05,675 --> 00:04:07,915 This is a VAV controller that was 81 00:04:07,915 --> 00:04:10,340 used kind of in in a more fixed 82 00:04:10,340 --> 00:04:11,940 algorithm kind of scenario. 83 00:04:11,940 --> 00:04:15,780 A lot of these were used in cost sensitive applications. 84 00:04:15,780 --> 00:04:16,940 And, 85 00:04:18,580 --> 00:04:20,580 you know, we're still we're still working on it, 86 00:04:20,580 --> 00:04:23,060 but we have to start thinking about the successor to this 87 00:04:23,060 --> 00:04:24,525 product line as well. 88 00:04:24,525 --> 00:04:26,845 We still sell a lot of IntelliZone, 89 00:04:26,845 --> 00:04:28,845 but there they are. 90 00:04:28,845 --> 00:04:31,085 They are getting long in the tooth now over ten years. 91 00:04:31,085 --> 00:04:33,885 I I still refer to this as the new VAP controller, 92 00:04:33,885 --> 00:04:35,925 and we're in twelve years. 93 00:04:36,125 --> 00:04:41,140 So this will start to get phased out, later this decade, 94 00:04:41,180 --> 00:04:44,020 as the RED five products come in. 95 00:04:46,460 --> 00:04:47,740 So what's new then? 96 00:04:47,740 --> 00:04:51,340 So I've told you about what's going on in the past where we've been. 97 00:04:51,340 --> 00:04:52,260 Well, 98 00:04:54,145 --> 00:04:59,145 last year, we introduced, the RED five VAV controller. 99 00:04:59,265 --> 00:05:03,025 This is one of Emily's taglines, compact and mighty. 100 00:05:03,025 --> 00:05:05,465 And we get we say mighty with a fist. 101 00:05:06,230 --> 00:05:09,750 This is our new flagship VAV product line. 102 00:05:09,750 --> 00:05:12,630 And I'll tell you something kinda funny about it, 103 00:05:12,630 --> 00:05:15,430 and I'm gonna tell you a little bit more about it in a second. 104 00:05:15,430 --> 00:05:19,190 But RED five VAV controllers now account for 105 00:05:19,190 --> 00:05:23,235 over fifty four percent of all of our VAV sales. 106 00:05:23,515 --> 00:05:26,315 So that tells you a little bit about the adoption of this product. 107 00:05:26,315 --> 00:05:30,955 It's only been around for, well, ten months now, and, 108 00:05:30,955 --> 00:05:35,475 it's already overtaken, what we're doing with the DVC products. 109 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:41,660 So a lot of the intent behind the RED five product line was 110 00:05:41,660 --> 00:05:45,740 to build a controller that was powerful enough that could 111 00:05:45,740 --> 00:05:48,660 grow with your building over time. 112 00:05:48,775 --> 00:05:51,735 We wanna say goodbye to the rip and replace cycle where a 113 00:05:51,735 --> 00:05:55,255 product maybe only have may only have five or ten years. 114 00:05:55,255 --> 00:05:58,295 And we know that our industry 115 00:05:58,295 --> 00:06:00,855 changes and and especially now here we are in twenty twenty 116 00:06:00,855 --> 00:06:04,970 six that, we've got technology is growing so quickly, 117 00:06:04,970 --> 00:06:05,850 and there's new needs. 118 00:06:05,850 --> 00:06:08,770 There's AI. Everyone's using buzzwords. 119 00:06:08,890 --> 00:06:13,130 The impact on on the network infrastructure and 120 00:06:13,130 --> 00:06:17,795 the network requirements have directed us to 121 00:06:17,795 --> 00:06:21,315 build a product that can be scalable with your building 122 00:06:21,315 --> 00:06:24,915 over time, and that's why the Red five VAV was born. 123 00:06:24,915 --> 00:06:26,755 It's still lay legacy compatible, 124 00:06:26,755 --> 00:06:30,520 so it could still coexist and play nice with older products, 125 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,800 DVCs, ezone. 126 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,520 But the intent is for it to grow over time, 127 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,560 as your building needs grow. 128 00:06:42,065 --> 00:06:45,705 Red five VAV has, a lot of 129 00:06:46,465 --> 00:06:50,305 a lot of the underlying parts of the Red five 130 00:06:50,305 --> 00:06:54,105 VAV is compliance with guideline thirty six. 131 00:06:54,145 --> 00:06:56,750 We have built in databases. 132 00:06:56,750 --> 00:06:59,070 So if you buy a Red five VAV controller, 133 00:06:59,070 --> 00:07:00,750 you can set it up before you even power it on. 134 00:07:00,750 --> 00:07:03,790 You can tell it what VAV algorithm you want it to use. 135 00:07:03,790 --> 00:07:05,390 You power it up, away you go, 136 00:07:05,390 --> 00:07:07,950 and you can even edit those programs as you go. 137 00:07:07,950 --> 00:07:11,510 So it's kinda like having a the dreaded fixed algorithm, 138 00:07:11,765 --> 00:07:15,325 but you can still program it at the same time if you need to. 139 00:07:15,365 --> 00:07:18,445 Zero drift differential pressure sensor, 140 00:07:18,725 --> 00:07:21,925 the ability to, have sustainability metrics. 141 00:07:21,925 --> 00:07:26,320 We've we've unlocked a lot of features through our PG Python interface. 142 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,880 So you've got GCL to do your control. 143 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:30,960 You got Python to do your IoT. 144 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:32,720 So with all these bells and whistles, 145 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:34,000 and in order to support that, 146 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,920 we have to have the power under the hood to do it. 147 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,720 And that's what we mean by a scalable controller over time. 148 00:07:40,695 --> 00:07:42,135 On top of that, we all you know, 149 00:07:42,135 --> 00:07:43,895 we have to stick to the basics as well. 150 00:07:43,895 --> 00:07:46,375 So we wanna make sure that commissioning is easier, 151 00:07:46,375 --> 00:07:50,215 that you can, improve your installation times and get 152 00:07:50,215 --> 00:07:52,855 those products in and get off the job quicker. 153 00:07:52,855 --> 00:07:56,095 And we do that by reducing your ladder trips, 154 00:07:56,670 --> 00:07:59,150 giving guys a bidirectional flow sensor. 155 00:07:59,150 --> 00:08:01,790 So now even with the fifty percent chance of getting it 156 00:08:01,790 --> 00:08:05,710 wrong, when you know what the, the high and the low side is, 157 00:08:05,710 --> 00:08:07,070 you don't have to worry about that anymore. 158 00:08:07,070 --> 00:08:08,910 You can just hook the tubes up however you need to, 159 00:08:08,910 --> 00:08:10,710 and the controller will know 160 00:08:11,465 --> 00:08:14,465 how to scale that pressure correctly. 161 00:08:16,585 --> 00:08:18,025 And as I mentioned before, 162 00:08:18,025 --> 00:08:20,745 we've got a lot of VAV applications. 163 00:08:20,745 --> 00:08:23,630 We used to try Emily and I used to try and figure out how many 164 00:08:23,630 --> 00:08:26,190 different applications we had built into the controller. 165 00:08:26,190 --> 00:08:28,430 And we started with fifty, then it was fifty five, 166 00:08:28,430 --> 00:08:31,150 then it was sixty eight, and I I don't even know anymore. 167 00:08:31,150 --> 00:08:33,470 So we'll just let's just say there's lots of VAV 168 00:08:33,470 --> 00:08:36,510 applications built in all the way from guideline thirty six 169 00:08:36,510 --> 00:08:39,925 deep dive applications all the way just to standard basic 170 00:08:39,925 --> 00:08:42,165 VAV, algorithms. 171 00:08:42,165 --> 00:08:45,285 So you guys can either program it yourself using your own, 172 00:08:45,285 --> 00:08:48,805 or you can use ours and edit them however, 173 00:08:48,805 --> 00:08:50,520 however you see fit. 174 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,600 And that can all be enabled just by the scan of your phone 175 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:55,640 onto the controller. 176 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,400 I've got several VAVs running in my office that I had fully 177 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,240 set up and commission or not commissioned, 178 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,760 fully set up and configured with algorithms before I even opened the box. 179 00:09:09,945 --> 00:09:13,865 So what does this look like in context of of of a whole BMS 180 00:09:13,865 --> 00:09:16,585 network or for a Delta network? 181 00:09:16,585 --> 00:09:19,865 Well, this image shows you essentially three different network types. 182 00:09:19,865 --> 00:09:24,090 The blue line up here let me get my little, highlighter out. 183 00:09:24,090 --> 00:09:27,490 This blue line up here, that's, 184 00:09:28,330 --> 00:09:32,090 your standard BACnet MSTP cable and your twenty two 185 00:09:32,090 --> 00:09:34,530 gauge twisted pair. 186 00:09:35,105 --> 00:09:36,865 The orange line down here, 187 00:09:36,865 --> 00:09:38,225 I'm gonna talk about that in a moment. 188 00:09:38,225 --> 00:09:42,225 That's a t one l, network. Again, it's on twisted pair. 189 00:09:42,225 --> 00:09:44,385 Could be a legacy infrastructure, 190 00:09:44,385 --> 00:09:48,065 but it's Ethernet carried over twisted pair. 191 00:09:48,065 --> 00:09:51,550 And then the bottom one is your standard, 192 00:09:51,750 --> 00:09:54,070 cat five, cat six Ethernet. 193 00:09:54,070 --> 00:09:56,950 But you'll notice that these products are all in a daisy chain. 194 00:09:56,950 --> 00:10:00,430 All these VAV controllers are in a daisy chain configuration. 195 00:10:01,925 --> 00:10:03,205 So starting last year, 196 00:10:03,205 --> 00:10:05,765 let's just look at the Ethernet side of things for now. 197 00:10:05,765 --> 00:10:08,325 Our standard old Ethernet, tried and true. 198 00:10:08,325 --> 00:10:11,805 We know everything about it. We've we're we're used to it. 199 00:10:14,180 --> 00:10:17,380 That's what we call our Red five Edge VAV controller. 200 00:10:17,380 --> 00:10:19,980 This is our dual Ethernet controller, 201 00:10:20,660 --> 00:10:22,740 with bypass relays. 202 00:10:22,740 --> 00:10:23,700 We have two models. 203 00:10:23,700 --> 00:10:26,500 We have one, the v one hundred, which is cooling only, 204 00:10:26,500 --> 00:10:27,620 and the v four forty, 205 00:10:27,620 --> 00:10:32,085 which has the extended IO for reheat and maybe picking up, like, 206 00:10:32,085 --> 00:10:37,005 base heat baseboard heaters or or whatever it is that you need to pick up. 207 00:10:38,005 --> 00:10:41,645 Standard twenty four volt AC DC powered yada yada yada. 208 00:10:42,930 --> 00:10:46,210 But a cool thing about it is the fact that we've added the 209 00:10:46,210 --> 00:10:49,090 ability to be a BACnetSC node. 210 00:10:49,090 --> 00:10:51,570 And this is basically going into anything that's a v four 211 00:10:51,570 --> 00:10:56,170 IP controller, the capability of being a BACnetSC node. 212 00:10:56,375 --> 00:10:58,855 It still supports things like LinkNet for your LinkNet 213 00:10:58,855 --> 00:11:02,095 sensors, for your stats. 214 00:11:03,015 --> 00:11:06,455 It has the built in, Bulimo actuator with feedback. 215 00:11:06,455 --> 00:11:10,330 So you've got analog control over the fee over the actuator with, 216 00:11:10,330 --> 00:11:12,890 analog feedback so you know what what position the 217 00:11:12,890 --> 00:11:14,170 actuator's in. 218 00:11:14,170 --> 00:11:16,970 And we released this guy, last year, 219 00:11:16,970 --> 00:11:19,690 last July is when we were finally able to ship it, 220 00:11:19,690 --> 00:11:21,490 July twenty twenty five. 221 00:11:22,685 --> 00:11:24,685 So this is really our flagship VAV. 222 00:11:24,685 --> 00:11:27,965 It was the first one we released and it took off like 223 00:11:27,965 --> 00:11:30,045 gangbusters when we released it. 224 00:11:30,045 --> 00:11:33,725 And as I mentioned, we're like it's accounting for over 225 00:11:33,725 --> 00:11:36,805 fifty percent now of our total VAV sales. 226 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:40,920 So that was the Edge. 227 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,160 Now I wanna talk to you guys about 228 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,280 a relatively new VAV controller that we just released last 229 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,160 December, and that is the Field. 230 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:55,105 And it's an MSTP controller. 231 00:11:55,105 --> 00:11:58,785 This is this is really the the DVC replacement now. 232 00:11:58,785 --> 00:12:03,465 Again, this comes in your cooling only model and your extended IO reheat model. 233 00:12:04,770 --> 00:12:07,890 But the difference with this particular controller is it's 234 00:12:07,890 --> 00:12:10,330 backed at MSTP only. 235 00:12:10,930 --> 00:12:14,370 It supports LinkNet, and importantly, 236 00:12:14,370 --> 00:12:17,330 it can coexist with legacy products or other third party 237 00:12:17,330 --> 00:12:19,050 MSTP devices. 238 00:12:20,335 --> 00:12:22,575 We released this in December twenty twenty five. 239 00:12:22,575 --> 00:12:25,775 So I just wanted to remind you guys that, you know, 240 00:12:25,775 --> 00:12:28,735 this sort of this product kinda snuck out right at Christmas 241 00:12:28,735 --> 00:12:30,975 time without a lot of fanfare. 242 00:12:30,975 --> 00:12:35,560 So I want you guys to consider this as the relaunch of 243 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:37,400 the Red five field VAV controller. 244 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:38,760 So, Emily, I don't know if you've got, like, 245 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:43,280 a a burst emoji you can send out 246 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,600 for the official Red five VAV field relaunch. 247 00:12:49,195 --> 00:12:52,075 So we're starting to we're this this controller is starting to 248 00:12:52,075 --> 00:12:53,115 pick up a lot of steam. 249 00:12:53,115 --> 00:12:56,515 It's probably the second highest sale, 250 00:12:57,115 --> 00:13:00,755 VAV controller sitting in our our arsenal now. 251 00:13:00,875 --> 00:13:04,910 So it proves to us that as much as we'd like to see MSTP go 252 00:13:04,910 --> 00:13:09,230 away, MSTP is just it's it's slowly 253 00:13:09,230 --> 00:13:10,670 dragging itself out there. 254 00:13:10,670 --> 00:13:14,270 It's it'll it'll I think it'll be like Charlton Heston. 255 00:13:14,270 --> 00:13:14,510 You know? 256 00:13:14,510 --> 00:13:18,150 The MSTP can be removed from its cold dead hands, 257 00:13:19,765 --> 00:13:22,645 But it's still there, and it's still very much a thing, 258 00:13:22,645 --> 00:13:25,765 and we still need to do a product that that can run on v 259 00:13:25,765 --> 00:13:27,525 on MSTP for those sites. 260 00:13:27,525 --> 00:13:30,005 There's a lot of MSTP out there, 261 00:13:30,005 --> 00:13:32,925 and we can't just forsake it. 262 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,400 But even though this doesn't have the IP controller bells 263 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:40,400 and whistles, it doesn't have you know, obviously, 264 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:41,760 doesn't have embedded graphics. 265 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:43,320 It doesn't have, 266 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,680 you know, IP capability, but it still has the same 267 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:50,795 power under the hood as the IP controller. 268 00:13:50,795 --> 00:13:53,915 So it's got the built in selectable GCL databases. 269 00:13:53,915 --> 00:13:57,835 It's got the the, bidirectional pressure sensor. 270 00:13:57,835 --> 00:14:02,130 It's got, the zero drift differential pressure sensor. 271 00:14:02,130 --> 00:14:05,170 So it it it's a pretty extremely powerful controller 272 00:14:05,170 --> 00:14:10,010 for, a guy that's just sitting on an m s MSTP network. 273 00:14:10,610 --> 00:14:12,210 So that's the field VAV. 274 00:14:12,210 --> 00:14:15,490 That is the MSTP controller. 275 00:14:15,490 --> 00:14:18,090 So welcome to our world 276 00:14:18,605 --> 00:14:20,645 Field VAV. 277 00:14:22,845 --> 00:14:27,165 Now we like saying when we when we started launching all of our 278 00:14:27,165 --> 00:14:30,765 RED five products, you know, we get the streamlined install, 279 00:14:30,765 --> 00:14:34,050 we get the future proof design, the energy efficiency, 280 00:14:34,050 --> 00:14:38,050 flexibility, BACnet secure connect, and it's the last 281 00:14:38,050 --> 00:14:40,410 VAV you will ever need. 282 00:14:40,450 --> 00:14:41,810 That's why I've highlighted that. 283 00:14:41,810 --> 00:14:44,650 It's the last VAV you'll ever need. 284 00:14:44,850 --> 00:14:46,930 But wait. There's more. 285 00:14:46,930 --> 00:14:49,535 There must be something else coming down the line. 286 00:14:49,535 --> 00:14:53,535 So maybe the field and the edge wasn't the last VAV 287 00:14:53,535 --> 00:14:55,255 you'll ever need. 288 00:14:55,775 --> 00:14:59,775 What if I told you you could add performance to existing 289 00:14:59,775 --> 00:15:01,655 legacy infrastructure? 290 00:15:02,950 --> 00:15:06,150 What if I told you you could bring the building to the 291 00:15:06,150 --> 00:15:08,750 future without having to rewire it? 292 00:15:09,110 --> 00:15:11,150 That's my sales voice. 293 00:15:11,270 --> 00:15:13,910 What if I told you you can reuse your existing r s four 294 00:15:13,910 --> 00:15:16,590 eighty five twisted pair lawn cabling, 295 00:15:17,005 --> 00:15:19,725 avoiding disruptive expensive cabling overhauls, 296 00:15:19,725 --> 00:15:22,725 seamlessly replace MSTP or lawn works. 297 00:15:24,285 --> 00:15:29,045 It's all true with the RED five v a v t one l. 298 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,120 This is a brand spanking new, v a v controller. 299 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,240 It's been in beta since February twenty twenty six, 300 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,320 so it's been running in beta for a couple of months now. 301 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:45,000 We've got, I think we have four good beta sites out there that have been running this. 302 00:15:45,815 --> 00:15:50,055 This product is is essentially exactly the same as 303 00:15:50,055 --> 00:15:54,255 the standard Red five Edge v a b controller, 304 00:15:54,295 --> 00:15:57,735 only it doesn't use, r g forty five connectors. 305 00:15:57,735 --> 00:15:59,415 It now uses t one l connectors. 306 00:15:59,415 --> 00:16:02,610 So it's running ten base t one l Ethernet 307 00:16:02,610 --> 00:16:08,250 over twisted pair, and that's what these ports here are. 308 00:16:08,770 --> 00:16:11,210 These are the t one l ports. 309 00:16:11,970 --> 00:16:14,925 And what you'll do is you'll all your cable on 310 00:16:14,925 --> 00:16:17,005 MSTP. I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. 311 00:16:17,005 --> 00:16:20,085 And you'll terminate it as t one l. 312 00:16:20,125 --> 00:16:22,845 So this, again, is an IoT ready controller. 313 00:16:22,845 --> 00:16:26,365 It has all the built in selectable GCL database. 314 00:16:26,365 --> 00:16:29,605 Everything that all the other VAV controllers have, 315 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,880 except it's on t one l rather than standard Ethernet. 316 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:36,440 It'll support embedded graphics, BACnet Secure 317 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:40,240 Connect, and there's some interesting, 318 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:43,800 side effects for having BACnet SC and the level that you can 319 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,440 now have full 320 00:16:46,145 --> 00:16:48,345 encryption on your network. 321 00:16:49,825 --> 00:16:52,625 Release coming coming soon. 322 00:16:52,625 --> 00:16:54,865 We're in quarter two of twenty twenty six now. 323 00:16:54,865 --> 00:16:59,220 We're just basically finishing off our beta cycle, 324 00:16:59,820 --> 00:17:03,940 cleaning up any last little remaining bugs that we know about, 325 00:17:04,940 --> 00:17:07,340 and then we'll be releasing this next month. 326 00:17:07,340 --> 00:17:10,220 And, so far, we're looking really good. 327 00:17:10,220 --> 00:17:13,380 We're, we're on track to meet this date. 328 00:17:15,955 --> 00:17:17,555 So there will be an announcement soon. 329 00:17:17,555 --> 00:17:20,795 I think Emily's even behind that announcement. Are you? 330 00:17:21,315 --> 00:17:24,355 Soon. Couple weeks. A week? A week. 331 00:17:24,355 --> 00:17:25,075 Yeah. 332 00:17:25,075 --> 00:17:29,690 So in order to utilize in order 333 00:17:29,690 --> 00:17:33,290 to utilize the t one l, VAV controller, 334 00:17:33,290 --> 00:17:35,370 you'll also need this little guy, the con t one l, 335 00:17:35,370 --> 00:17:37,770 and I'll show you what that architecture looks like in a second. 336 00:17:37,770 --> 00:17:41,730 The VAV itself, I'll go back, has the built in t one l, 337 00:17:42,170 --> 00:17:43,250 connectors, 338 00:17:43,855 --> 00:17:48,055 But you can add that t one l to any network, 339 00:17:48,175 --> 00:17:51,055 whether it's a Delta network like a plus controller or 340 00:17:51,055 --> 00:17:54,255 whether you wanna just connect them to a standard switch, 341 00:17:54,255 --> 00:17:57,320 BMS switch, you can do that through the con t one l. 342 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,400 So I just I didn't wanna make a big deal about this. 343 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:00,600 We've done webinars on this. 344 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:05,080 I've done, training sessions on this and and breakout sessions, etcetera. 345 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,720 But I just wanted to remind you that this little utensil 346 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:12,280 exists, and it allows you to basically bring t one 347 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:16,125 l to any, standard, 348 00:18:16,245 --> 00:18:17,205 Ethernet network. 349 00:18:17,205 --> 00:18:19,925 You just have to you just have to connect this to it basically 350 00:18:19,925 --> 00:18:24,205 converts your, cat five, cat six to a t one l. 351 00:18:24,485 --> 00:18:26,965 This has been released since October twenty five, 352 00:18:26,965 --> 00:18:28,720 October twenty twenty five. 353 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,640 And I really wanted to point out that it is system agnostic, 354 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,760 meaning it doesn't have to attach to a Delta controller. 355 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,760 It can attach to any Ethernet, product. 356 00:18:41,505 --> 00:18:43,665 So if we were to take a network like this, 357 00:18:43,665 --> 00:18:45,665 I'm gonna pick on the DVC for a second here. 358 00:18:45,665 --> 00:18:49,265 So this orange cable there is your standard low cap 359 00:18:49,265 --> 00:18:52,025 shielded balanced twisted pair, 360 00:18:52,145 --> 00:18:54,185 twenty two or twenty four gauge, 361 00:18:54,270 --> 00:18:58,070 and you'll notice that it's in a daisy chain configuration. 362 00:18:59,310 --> 00:19:02,070 Well, you can leave all that cable there. 363 00:19:02,430 --> 00:19:04,950 Whoops. I got too many whoops. 364 00:19:05,310 --> 00:19:08,190 It's it's played my animations without me wanting to let me 365 00:19:08,190 --> 00:19:08,990 just back this up here. 366 00:19:08,990 --> 00:19:10,070 There we go. 367 00:19:10,805 --> 00:19:13,685 I've added the CON t one l to a plus controller, 368 00:19:13,685 --> 00:19:16,845 and then without having to replace all that cable, 369 00:19:17,445 --> 00:19:19,525 we were just able to replace the devices. 370 00:19:19,525 --> 00:19:24,165 So now the benefit of doing this is we've brought in IoT 371 00:19:24,165 --> 00:19:28,270 capability and network security without having to replace the 372 00:19:28,270 --> 00:19:30,790 infrastructure, the cabling infrastructure. 373 00:19:30,990 --> 00:19:35,590 Now one of the things we did have to do is we have to re terminate 374 00:19:36,030 --> 00:19:39,790 at each point because you can't run t m t one l in, like, 375 00:19:39,790 --> 00:19:42,625 a standard multidrop daisy chain. 376 00:19:42,625 --> 00:19:45,465 So you have to re terminate each each, 377 00:19:46,065 --> 00:19:47,385 connector 378 00:19:47,905 --> 00:19:49,025 and then separate it, 379 00:19:49,025 --> 00:19:51,665 and then we handle the pass through through a set of, 380 00:19:51,665 --> 00:19:53,505 pass through relays in the controller. 381 00:19:53,505 --> 00:19:55,570 So if a controller drops offline, 382 00:19:55,570 --> 00:19:58,450 this line will still be maintained, 383 00:19:58,450 --> 00:20:02,090 and the communication of your downstream devices will still be there. 384 00:20:02,370 --> 00:20:04,890 So what this gives us is 385 00:20:05,410 --> 00:20:08,970 encryption right down to the terminal controller level 386 00:20:09,695 --> 00:20:11,215 through BACnet Secure Connect. 387 00:20:11,215 --> 00:20:14,415 So each one of those devices is now a BACnet Secure Connect 388 00:20:14,415 --> 00:20:16,575 node, and they can, 389 00:20:16,575 --> 00:20:20,575 they can lock in and be part of the network with any BACnet SC hub, 390 00:20:20,575 --> 00:20:24,935 whether that's a plus controller or your IntelliWeb server. 391 00:20:26,070 --> 00:20:30,550 Also gives you the ability to unlock the power of Python, 392 00:20:30,550 --> 00:20:34,630 the Python on PG, and to give you IT capabilities 393 00:20:34,630 --> 00:20:38,390 such as MQTT, or you can reach out to web 394 00:20:38,390 --> 00:20:40,030 services like 395 00:20:40,515 --> 00:20:45,915 weather services or maybe Cisco routers or whatever it is you need to do. 396 00:20:46,275 --> 00:20:48,595 That's all unlocked through Python. 397 00:20:48,595 --> 00:20:52,515 And that's now right down to the terminal unit level or 398 00:20:52,515 --> 00:20:55,900 unitary level, which is pretty cool. 399 00:20:55,940 --> 00:20:59,060 Incidentally, each one of those controllers also has its own embedded web 400 00:20:59,060 --> 00:21:03,900 servers so you can have a a graphic for each VAV box on each device. 401 00:21:03,940 --> 00:21:05,060 And that's all, you know, 402 00:21:05,060 --> 00:21:07,700 without having to replace the full blown infrastructure of 403 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:09,180 the of the network. 404 00:21:13,995 --> 00:21:16,955 So this is what it looks like when you look at it from the 405 00:21:16,955 --> 00:21:18,075 grand scheme of things. 406 00:21:18,075 --> 00:21:21,435 So we've talked about the MSTP network. 407 00:21:21,435 --> 00:21:24,915 We've talked about a standard cat five network, 408 00:21:25,710 --> 00:21:29,630 and now we've talked about a t one l network. 409 00:21:29,630 --> 00:21:32,550 And we're seeing more and more of these, 410 00:21:32,590 --> 00:21:34,110 flat network architectures. 411 00:21:34,110 --> 00:21:36,670 It's a big push here internally at Delta. 412 00:21:36,670 --> 00:21:39,525 We're coming up with new guidelines, 413 00:21:39,525 --> 00:21:42,965 revising old guidelines on how you deal with 414 00:21:42,965 --> 00:21:46,565 large flat networks and network best practices. 415 00:21:46,565 --> 00:21:49,565 So keep your eye open for your email 416 00:21:50,860 --> 00:21:54,460 for an email from us on how we're addressing these these 417 00:21:54,460 --> 00:21:56,140 larger flat networks. 418 00:21:56,140 --> 00:21:59,100 Incidentally, I wanna ask you guys a pop quiz. 419 00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:01,980 So get your little thumb emoji out, 420 00:22:01,980 --> 00:22:04,275 and I wanna see a thumbs up. 421 00:22:04,275 --> 00:22:06,115 This is a yes or no question. 422 00:22:06,115 --> 00:22:09,555 Is this this is a pop quest pop quiz, guys. 423 00:22:09,555 --> 00:22:12,395 Is this device here that I've circled 424 00:22:12,595 --> 00:22:14,555 and this device here, 425 00:22:16,690 --> 00:22:22,010 thumbs up for everybody that thinks that this is on the same network. 426 00:22:24,050 --> 00:22:26,250 Okay. If we got a couple of people. 427 00:22:28,945 --> 00:22:31,105 Okay. Lots of thumbs. This is good. 428 00:22:31,105 --> 00:22:32,385 So you guys are paying attention. 429 00:22:32,385 --> 00:22:34,545 So the correct answer is yes. 430 00:22:34,545 --> 00:22:37,585 These are absolutely on the same IP subnet, therefore, 431 00:22:37,585 --> 00:22:38,625 the same network. 432 00:22:38,625 --> 00:22:42,225 So therefore, your wiring guidelines that's in the existing Delta wiring 433 00:22:42,225 --> 00:22:46,730 guidelines on how to build a IP network and set up your 434 00:22:46,730 --> 00:22:50,490 network numbers, all of that is still valid. 435 00:22:50,490 --> 00:22:52,090 It's not changed. 436 00:22:52,090 --> 00:22:56,570 So thumbs up to I wanna get you 437 00:22:56,570 --> 00:22:58,005 guys give me a thumbs up. 438 00:22:58,005 --> 00:23:01,925 Is t one l a new form of 439 00:23:01,925 --> 00:23:06,445 MSTP? Anybody that thinks it is, give me a thumbs up. 440 00:23:09,285 --> 00:23:10,965 Oh, good. Okay. 441 00:23:10,965 --> 00:23:15,330 Give me a thumbs up if you agree that t one l is just a 442 00:23:15,330 --> 00:23:18,970 new way to carry Ethernet and IP. 443 00:23:21,970 --> 00:23:24,690 Excellent. That's what I wanna see. 444 00:23:24,690 --> 00:23:29,145 So t one l is not a faster MSTP. 445 00:23:29,145 --> 00:23:33,225 T one l is an ability to carry your 446 00:23:33,225 --> 00:23:35,185 IP Ethernet 447 00:23:37,865 --> 00:23:40,225 over balanced twisted pair. 448 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,440 Thumbs up if you agree with this. 449 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:51,600 T one l and MSTP can exist on the same network cable. 450 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,800 Give me a thumbs up if you agree with that. 451 00:23:56,175 --> 00:23:58,175 Oh, good. I've got scared faces. Good. 452 00:23:58,175 --> 00:23:59,855 So, no, t one l, 453 00:23:59,855 --> 00:24:03,615 MSTP cannot exist on the same network. 454 00:24:03,615 --> 00:24:06,735 So and I'm gonna talk more about that in a in a second here. 455 00:24:06,735 --> 00:24:09,130 I just wanna make that really clear. 456 00:24:09,130 --> 00:24:10,730 And I saw one guy comment. Yeah. 457 00:24:10,730 --> 00:24:10,970 No. 458 00:24:10,970 --> 00:24:13,610 T one l is not that new, but it's new to us, 459 00:24:13,610 --> 00:24:16,130 and it's gonna be new to you guys. 460 00:24:18,090 --> 00:24:22,850 We've we've actually had our our eye on t one l for probably ten years, 461 00:24:23,275 --> 00:24:28,395 easily ten years, but we waited to get 462 00:24:28,395 --> 00:24:30,155 a read on where it was going. 463 00:24:30,155 --> 00:24:32,075 And actually, to be quite honest, 464 00:24:32,075 --> 00:24:33,595 we're waiting for costs, 465 00:24:33,595 --> 00:24:38,035 to become reasonable to actually include it in our product. 466 00:24:40,050 --> 00:24:41,570 So the benefits of t one, 467 00:24:41,570 --> 00:24:43,730 I wanna go over a few things here because it's not just 468 00:24:43,730 --> 00:24:47,890 magic in a box and there it's not like you still have 469 00:24:47,890 --> 00:24:51,090 to do your due diligence and you still have to prepare your 470 00:24:51,090 --> 00:24:52,490 site accordingly. 471 00:24:52,805 --> 00:24:56,885 And I wanna be transparent with what we've encountered during 472 00:24:56,885 --> 00:25:00,765 our development phase of the t one l products. 473 00:25:01,525 --> 00:25:03,205 So there are some benefits of it. 474 00:25:03,205 --> 00:25:07,290 This first one here, I take a little issue. Long cable runs. 475 00:25:07,290 --> 00:25:09,490 Now they claim, 476 00:25:10,250 --> 00:25:14,410 they the proverbial they claim that t one l stands for a 477 00:25:14,410 --> 00:25:16,890 single twisted pair over long distances. 478 00:25:16,890 --> 00:25:20,970 And the claim is that you can run up to one kilometer 479 00:25:20,970 --> 00:25:22,935 between two peer devices. 480 00:25:22,935 --> 00:25:26,575 So that's peer to peer, one kilometer. 481 00:25:27,415 --> 00:25:30,895 In our experience, that's purely theoretical. 482 00:25:31,335 --> 00:25:35,815 In our internal testing under pretty perfect conditions, 483 00:25:35,815 --> 00:25:40,000 we have yet to achieve one kilometer between two devices. 484 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:46,040 We've successfully tested up to about six hundred meters 485 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,760 between two, peer to peer. 486 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,680 But, again, that's under perfect conditions. 487 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,045 That's under really controlled circumstances where we 488 00:25:54,045 --> 00:25:56,525 don't have a lot of noise in the room and we just we're able 489 00:25:56,525 --> 00:25:58,485 to run these long cables. 490 00:25:58,925 --> 00:26:02,445 So we've tested up to six hundred meters, 491 00:26:02,445 --> 00:26:04,770 but we're recommending keep your network still be 492 00:26:04,770 --> 00:26:07,490 conservative in your network design between two devices. 493 00:26:07,490 --> 00:26:11,530 We're recommending two to three hundred meters depending on what the 494 00:26:12,130 --> 00:26:13,250 cable looks like. 495 00:26:13,250 --> 00:26:15,730 Move your mic for me just a little bit. 496 00:26:15,730 --> 00:26:16,770 I don't know if that's just me, 497 00:26:16,770 --> 00:26:19,785 but yours is kinda you can't drop my voice. 498 00:26:19,785 --> 00:26:20,825 Oh. 499 00:26:20,825 --> 00:26:22,985 Can you guys give me a thumbs up if everybody else hears that 500 00:26:22,985 --> 00:26:25,505 or if that's just my connection? 501 00:26:25,545 --> 00:26:29,185 Okay. Try and, like, move your computer up and down. 502 00:26:30,985 --> 00:26:31,985 Yep. 503 00:26:33,890 --> 00:26:35,890 We got row robot, Andy. 504 00:26:35,890 --> 00:26:37,250 Still robot? 505 00:26:37,250 --> 00:26:39,970 Still robot. Just a little robot. 506 00:26:39,970 --> 00:26:40,850 Okay. How about that? 507 00:26:40,850 --> 00:26:45,570 Could just use I could just use my mic on my on my on camera then. 508 00:26:45,570 --> 00:26:47,505 So it sounded how's that? Is that better? 509 00:26:47,505 --> 00:26:48,465 Yes. All good. 510 00:26:48,465 --> 00:26:50,545 Great. That's weird. Okay. 511 00:26:50,545 --> 00:26:53,585 Let me go so let me rephrase the long cable run thing. 512 00:26:53,585 --> 00:26:54,825 So 513 00:26:55,505 --> 00:26:57,905 while we've successfully tested up to six hundred meters, 514 00:26:57,905 --> 00:27:00,065 that's not the total network length, mind you. 515 00:27:00,065 --> 00:27:01,865 That's just between two devices. 516 00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:06,670 We're still derating what our we're still derating what 517 00:27:06,670 --> 00:27:08,190 our recommendations are. 518 00:27:08,190 --> 00:27:12,150 We think playing it safe is probably a better option. 519 00:27:12,430 --> 00:27:14,905 Two two to three hundred meters peer to peer. 520 00:27:14,905 --> 00:27:16,185 I mean, in a VAV network, 521 00:27:16,185 --> 00:27:18,985 you're not gonna find very many VAV networks where it's three 522 00:27:18,985 --> 00:27:21,785 hundred meters between two VAV boxes. 523 00:27:21,785 --> 00:27:22,585 But who knows? 524 00:27:22,585 --> 00:27:25,465 Maybe you will or maybe you wanna extend into a, you know, 525 00:27:25,465 --> 00:27:28,210 another building or what have you. 526 00:27:28,210 --> 00:27:31,730 So long cable runs, it's a bit of a controversial topic. 527 00:27:31,730 --> 00:27:34,450 We've yet to see one kilometer in our own testing. 528 00:27:34,450 --> 00:27:36,730 We've seen six hundred meters, 529 00:27:37,170 --> 00:27:40,570 but we still think it's safer to recommend two to three hundred meters. 530 00:27:42,875 --> 00:27:45,195 Truly, one of the benefits though, 531 00:27:45,195 --> 00:27:48,555 t one l auto negotiating polarity, simple wiring. 532 00:27:48,555 --> 00:27:52,915 Somebody made a comment I saw that popped up, regarding, 533 00:27:53,435 --> 00:27:59,160 you know, some long networks were twisted or or the t one l 534 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,800 transceivers that we use are auto negotiating. 535 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,680 So you can actually flip the polarity and it'll and it'll 536 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,360 still communicate. 537 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:08,400 So that'll be a nice thing. 538 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,975 So for all your electricians out there that, you know, 539 00:28:10,975 --> 00:28:14,015 have the fifty percent chance of getting it wrong, 540 00:28:14,015 --> 00:28:15,375 when they wire it up, 541 00:28:15,375 --> 00:28:18,615 it's not so much of an issue anymore with the t one l. 542 00:28:19,375 --> 00:28:22,655 Full Internet compatibility at the at the MAC layer, 543 00:28:22,655 --> 00:28:24,495 so that means you get all the benefits that you'd normally 544 00:28:24,495 --> 00:28:28,070 get out of a standard Ethernet controller IP. 545 00:28:28,270 --> 00:28:29,230 Backward integration, 546 00:28:29,230 --> 00:28:33,670 you can reuse the existing MSTP cabling or long cabling if it will. 547 00:28:34,430 --> 00:28:36,990 So we're getting ten megabits per second up to ten megabits 548 00:28:36,990 --> 00:28:40,095 per second, meaning you can host graphics on the controller. 549 00:28:40,095 --> 00:28:44,295 You get quicker firmware upgrades and better network performance. 550 00:28:46,175 --> 00:28:47,495 And another, 551 00:28:48,175 --> 00:28:51,215 result of this is also it's actually better for harsh environments. 552 00:28:51,215 --> 00:28:53,700 T one l has better noise immunity as well. 553 00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:56,180 So we've we don't have the same grounding issues that we would 554 00:28:56,180 --> 00:28:58,700 have back in the MSTP days. 555 00:28:58,820 --> 00:29:00,820 So it's kinda like you're getting your having your cake 556 00:29:00,820 --> 00:29:02,180 and eating it too. 557 00:29:02,180 --> 00:29:03,340 Now 558 00:29:04,420 --> 00:29:07,380 the topology, these are all point to point connection. 559 00:29:07,380 --> 00:29:09,845 No branches, no t's, no stars. 560 00:29:09,845 --> 00:29:12,485 T one l does not support, multidrop. 561 00:29:12,485 --> 00:29:14,605 You cannot star the network. 562 00:29:14,645 --> 00:29:17,845 You have to do a site survey. 563 00:29:17,845 --> 00:29:20,405 If you're gonna be quoting this on your job, go out there, 564 00:29:20,405 --> 00:29:23,480 look at the wire, make sure you understand what that wiring is. 565 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:27,560 And if there are stars that you can find them and take them out 566 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:28,760 and resolve them. 567 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,080 So it's very important to know, 568 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,600 what that wiring looks like before you deploy the site. 569 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,440 Okay? Before you're, committed. 570 00:29:41,215 --> 00:29:43,775 It does require a media converter, 571 00:29:43,775 --> 00:29:45,615 so we've given you the CON t one l. 572 00:29:45,615 --> 00:29:49,135 So that'll be required to bring that VAV network onto a 573 00:29:49,135 --> 00:29:51,175 standard Ethernet network. 574 00:29:51,295 --> 00:29:54,250 We're supporting up to sixty four devices per trunk. 575 00:29:54,250 --> 00:29:57,450 So if you were to take an existing standard Delta MSTP 576 00:29:57,450 --> 00:30:00,730 truck, a large one, we will support up to sixty four 577 00:30:00,730 --> 00:30:03,250 devices in that trunk. 578 00:30:04,730 --> 00:30:08,130 It's important to take pass through into consideration 579 00:30:08,205 --> 00:30:10,845 when you're when you're looking at your maximum distance as well. 580 00:30:10,845 --> 00:30:14,765 Remember we said, two to three hundred meters is recommended. 581 00:30:14,765 --> 00:30:18,085 It'll break down, we think, after six hundred meters. 582 00:30:18,365 --> 00:30:20,285 When you have a pass through, 583 00:30:20,285 --> 00:30:22,725 if you have a device that drops offline, 584 00:30:22,790 --> 00:30:24,470 the pass through closes, 585 00:30:24,470 --> 00:30:26,150 that signal is no longer being rebuilt. 586 00:30:26,150 --> 00:30:28,870 So you have to take that into consideration for the total 587 00:30:28,870 --> 00:30:31,070 overall network length. 588 00:30:31,350 --> 00:30:34,390 And we also have to take into consideration how many devices 589 00:30:34,390 --> 00:30:35,590 in a row fail. 590 00:30:35,590 --> 00:30:39,625 The one thing that does impact t one l stability is 591 00:30:39,625 --> 00:30:41,705 your network impedance. 592 00:30:41,705 --> 00:30:44,425 And we find that once this is getting a little techy. 593 00:30:44,425 --> 00:30:48,425 Once we start exceeding, I think it's around fifty homes 594 00:30:48,425 --> 00:30:50,505 total network impedance, it's either fifty or hundred. 595 00:30:50,505 --> 00:30:51,905 I have to look that up. 596 00:30:52,430 --> 00:30:56,110 The network actually will not slowly degrade. 597 00:30:56,110 --> 00:30:58,550 It'll just stop working. 598 00:30:59,390 --> 00:31:01,310 So even with the pass through devices, 599 00:31:01,310 --> 00:31:04,110 plan ahead to make sure that if you're gonna have devices that 600 00:31:04,110 --> 00:31:05,235 are dropping offline, 601 00:31:05,235 --> 00:31:07,475 that you know how many devices in a row that you can have. 602 00:31:07,475 --> 00:31:10,275 We we would typically recommend a maximum with three or four 603 00:31:10,275 --> 00:31:13,715 devices that could fail in a row sequentially before the 604 00:31:13,715 --> 00:31:15,435 network starts to break down. 605 00:31:17,250 --> 00:31:18,130 And as I said, 606 00:31:18,130 --> 00:31:20,930 the testing has shown up to six hundred meter total distance, 607 00:31:20,930 --> 00:31:24,970 peer to peer, but we're recommending two to three hundred max. 608 00:31:29,250 --> 00:31:32,425 These are the different types of wire that we've worked with. 609 00:31:32,425 --> 00:31:35,385 So we've actually worked with Windy City Windy City and 610 00:31:35,385 --> 00:31:39,225 Faster Cable as well that have kindly provided us cabling 611 00:31:39,225 --> 00:31:43,145 to test on various different gauges and network and cable 612 00:31:43,145 --> 00:31:46,225 types that we use in our internal testing. 613 00:31:46,460 --> 00:31:50,780 So we've tested on, you know, standard echelon spec, 614 00:31:50,780 --> 00:31:55,340 generic shielded, MSTP cable, non shielded comm wires. 615 00:31:55,340 --> 00:31:57,900 These are all the different types of wire that we've, 616 00:31:57,900 --> 00:32:01,535 tested on with varying different results. 617 00:32:01,535 --> 00:32:05,295 These are published on our, install guide for t one l, 618 00:32:05,295 --> 00:32:08,255 and that's gonna be a living document that we will continue 619 00:32:08,255 --> 00:32:10,735 to update as we get more information, 620 00:32:10,735 --> 00:32:12,375 moving into the future. 621 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,240 So the big push, like I mentioned to summarize, 622 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:25,080 is we wanna see t one l being used to secure those 623 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,720 legacy network runs without having to replace all that cable. 624 00:32:28,735 --> 00:32:32,015 And it'll allow you to protect your building with BACnet SC, 625 00:32:32,015 --> 00:32:36,415 a completely encrypted network right down to the terminal box level. 626 00:32:36,415 --> 00:32:38,695 It's gonna give you IoT 627 00:32:39,455 --> 00:32:42,695 capability right at that infrastructure as well. 628 00:32:42,735 --> 00:32:47,070 And your your Red five VAV now access a BACnet secure 629 00:32:47,070 --> 00:32:50,110 connect node, and each one of those devices can be a node, 630 00:32:50,110 --> 00:32:53,110 you can have a completely encrypted network. 631 00:32:55,070 --> 00:32:58,335 So some people have asked me at at conferences 632 00:32:58,335 --> 00:33:00,095 or when I see them in person by the way, 633 00:33:00,095 --> 00:33:01,535 I love seeing you guys in person. 634 00:33:01,535 --> 00:33:03,055 So whenever we're at a conference together, 635 00:33:03,055 --> 00:33:06,095 please feel free to come up and chat with me and talk shop. 636 00:33:06,095 --> 00:33:07,735 I love it when we do that. 637 00:33:08,430 --> 00:33:10,910 But one of the questions that came up is, well, 638 00:33:10,910 --> 00:33:13,150 you guys have come up with this t one l device. 639 00:33:13,150 --> 00:33:15,310 Why would you bother, you know, 640 00:33:15,310 --> 00:33:18,950 coming out with a Red five field MSTP controller? 641 00:33:18,990 --> 00:33:20,350 And as I mentioned previously, 642 00:33:20,350 --> 00:33:22,590 there's still a need for MSTP out there. 643 00:33:22,590 --> 00:33:23,990 We still 644 00:33:24,615 --> 00:33:28,815 still I think approximately seventy percent of 645 00:33:28,855 --> 00:33:33,055 all our, VAV controllers are still MSTP that we sell, 646 00:33:33,495 --> 00:33:34,935 slowly going down. 647 00:33:34,935 --> 00:33:37,015 The the Ethernet, 648 00:33:37,015 --> 00:33:39,740 Red five VAV controller is starting to overtake that, 649 00:33:39,740 --> 00:33:43,100 but we still see a significant number of MSTP devices out there. 650 00:33:43,100 --> 00:33:47,020 So where I would use MSTP is, obviously, 651 00:33:47,020 --> 00:33:49,820 if we have to reuse an existing MSTP infrastructure. 652 00:33:49,820 --> 00:33:52,780 So if you're if you're doing a retrofit of a Delta site, 653 00:33:52,780 --> 00:33:54,575 maybe a third party site, 654 00:33:54,575 --> 00:33:57,615 but maybe you cannot do a full MSTP cutover. 655 00:33:57,615 --> 00:34:01,455 Maybe you have to phase that cutover in and or maybe there's 656 00:34:01,455 --> 00:34:04,655 third party by sitting on that network that cannot be swapped out. 657 00:34:04,655 --> 00:34:05,375 That's the case. 658 00:34:05,375 --> 00:34:08,870 You may wanna use MSTP just to keep that network going and 659 00:34:08,870 --> 00:34:10,390 you'll be fine going into the future. 660 00:34:10,390 --> 00:34:13,590 Like I said, the the field may be an MSTP controller, 661 00:34:13,590 --> 00:34:16,790 but it's still got the power under the hood that it can grow 662 00:34:16,790 --> 00:34:18,750 with the needs of your building. 663 00:34:20,805 --> 00:34:23,845 Another thing is it it might be a cost sensitive thing too. 664 00:34:23,845 --> 00:34:26,005 You know, we're looking at maybe a premium of a dollar 665 00:34:26,005 --> 00:34:28,245 about, I don't know, twenty dollars per controller, 666 00:34:28,245 --> 00:34:31,125 the difference between MSTP or maybe it's a little less, 667 00:34:31,125 --> 00:34:34,245 fifteen to twenty dollars between MSTP and the t one l 668 00:34:34,245 --> 00:34:38,360 controller or the Red five Edge Ethernet controller. 669 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,000 But, I mean, that adds up. 670 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,200 So if it's a costing 671 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,480 and lower bandwidth is acceptable, 672 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,775 then that's a perfect a perfect use case for MSTP controllers. 673 00:34:50,775 --> 00:34:52,375 So they're still out there. 674 00:34:52,375 --> 00:34:53,815 They're still doing their thing, 675 00:34:53,815 --> 00:34:57,175 and I don't think MSTP is going away anytime soon. 676 00:34:57,175 --> 00:34:59,335 I would like to see it go, but I don't think it is, 677 00:34:59,335 --> 00:35:00,695 if I'm being honest. 678 00:35:00,695 --> 00:35:02,535 So where do you wanna use Red five two point zero? 679 00:35:02,535 --> 00:35:03,375 Well, 680 00:35:04,180 --> 00:35:07,300 again, we're using existing infrastructure for sure. 681 00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:11,500 That's its number one, it it's number one push. 682 00:35:11,780 --> 00:35:14,420 And you're gonna use it in a situation where you can cut 683 00:35:14,420 --> 00:35:16,820 off, cut over full MSTP network. 684 00:35:16,820 --> 00:35:20,315 Meaning, you're gonna take out all the MSTP devices and replace them 685 00:35:20,315 --> 00:35:22,515 all with t one l. 686 00:35:22,955 --> 00:35:25,915 It's used when you require a modernization of services 687 00:35:25,915 --> 00:35:27,915 available on that infrastructure. 688 00:35:27,915 --> 00:35:31,915 Meaning, you can now get higher speed and more services available 689 00:35:31,915 --> 00:35:34,435 without having to replace all infrastructure. 690 00:35:35,020 --> 00:35:37,660 You use it when you need to have an encrypted secure 691 00:35:37,660 --> 00:35:39,900 network via back that SC. 692 00:35:39,900 --> 00:35:43,820 Use it if you wanna add IoT capability to that network and 693 00:35:43,820 --> 00:35:47,940 any situation that you wanna take advantage of ten megabits per second. 694 00:35:48,485 --> 00:35:52,325 That's really the difference of where you'd use MFTP versus, 695 00:35:52,325 --> 00:35:54,045 t one l. 696 00:35:58,405 --> 00:36:01,325 So what's next? What's coming down the line? 697 00:36:01,690 --> 00:36:04,250 So who here, give me a thumbs up, 698 00:36:04,250 --> 00:36:05,970 has heard of 699 00:36:06,570 --> 00:36:08,290 IntelliZone? 700 00:36:08,810 --> 00:36:11,650 Give me a thumbs up if you've heard of IntelliZone. 701 00:36:12,490 --> 00:36:14,850 Lots of people have heard okay. 702 00:36:16,105 --> 00:36:19,625 So over the last three, four years, 703 00:36:19,625 --> 00:36:23,625 we've introduced a RED five IO controller that 704 00:36:23,625 --> 00:36:27,065 replaces our legacy DAC and DSC. 705 00:36:27,065 --> 00:36:29,705 We've released a RED five VAV 706 00:36:29,705 --> 00:36:31,910 controller that'll start replacing our 707 00:36:31,910 --> 00:36:36,990 legacy DVC and EZone VAV controllers. 708 00:36:37,350 --> 00:36:41,510 The gap that we have is what are we gonna do with 709 00:36:41,510 --> 00:36:45,510 unitary controllers, meaning our IntelliZone fan 710 00:36:45,510 --> 00:36:48,965 coil controller and heat pump controller. 711 00:36:50,045 --> 00:36:53,165 And that's the brand new program that I'm working on 712 00:36:53,165 --> 00:36:57,445 right now with the team, the Red five unitary. 713 00:36:58,125 --> 00:37:00,850 We're gonna do t one l IP Ethernet 714 00:37:00,850 --> 00:37:02,770 just like we do with the VAV. 715 00:37:02,770 --> 00:37:04,210 We're gonna do MSTP. 716 00:37:04,210 --> 00:37:07,730 It'll support back to secure connect over IP. 717 00:37:07,730 --> 00:37:11,170 So very, very similar to what we did with the VAV controller. 718 00:37:11,170 --> 00:37:13,250 We're gonna do with the RED five unitary controller. 719 00:37:13,250 --> 00:37:15,370 So we're gonna do a couple of variants. 720 00:37:15,865 --> 00:37:19,265 We're gonna do a application specific 721 00:37:19,305 --> 00:37:21,145 fan coil controller, 722 00:37:21,145 --> 00:37:24,505 and they'll we'll we'll do that in two different models. 723 00:37:24,505 --> 00:37:27,065 One that has three speed fan, 724 00:37:27,065 --> 00:37:29,630 meaning it'll have onboard line voltage 725 00:37:29,630 --> 00:37:32,870 relays, and we'll also do a model with analog 726 00:37:32,910 --> 00:37:35,990 fan control for, like, ECM motors as well. 727 00:37:38,830 --> 00:37:41,765 Same deal with supporting embedded graphics, 728 00:37:41,765 --> 00:37:43,285 PG Python. 729 00:37:43,285 --> 00:37:46,405 We're we're gonna have European centric products as well where 730 00:37:46,405 --> 00:37:49,125 we have, line voltage power. 731 00:37:49,125 --> 00:37:53,005 We'll also have the twenty four volt AC and DC models. 732 00:37:54,500 --> 00:37:58,540 So this is all this is what we're we're going on, this year. 733 00:38:01,060 --> 00:38:03,700 Target timeline, late twenty twenty six. 734 00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:06,460 That's pretty ambitious, but it's still our target. 735 00:38:08,365 --> 00:38:11,725 But we will probably see something in early twenty twenty seven. 736 00:38:11,725 --> 00:38:14,925 And what's important for us here is is that this product is 737 00:38:14,925 --> 00:38:17,645 designed for the application, not just the spec sheet. 738 00:38:17,645 --> 00:38:20,445 We're not just trying to do a bare minimum to get products 739 00:38:20,445 --> 00:38:23,400 out the door and and into specifications. 740 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,440 We wanna make sure that we're doing a product that's that's 741 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,160 useful that meets your guys' needs. 742 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,160 So these are our brand new renderings of it. 743 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:34,240 It might differ a little bit from what this looks like. 744 00:38:34,865 --> 00:38:38,585 These guys are gonna have the onboard, removable, 745 00:38:39,265 --> 00:38:42,705 connector block, terminal blocks just like the VAV controller does. 746 00:38:42,705 --> 00:38:46,545 And, again, it'll come in with a dual Ethernet with pass through, 747 00:38:46,545 --> 00:38:50,505 a dual t one l with pass through, and an MSTP model. 748 00:38:50,570 --> 00:38:55,010 So keep an eye out for that in the next in the next year. 749 00:38:56,890 --> 00:39:00,050 Now you guys can click these links here. 750 00:39:02,250 --> 00:39:03,930 If you wanna click any one of these links, 751 00:39:03,930 --> 00:39:06,770 they should take you to these pages. 752 00:39:08,145 --> 00:39:10,305 If you wanna learn more about the red five family, 753 00:39:10,305 --> 00:39:13,305 red five modules, the CON t one l, 754 00:39:13,745 --> 00:39:16,145 or if you just wanna read off over what the whole red five 755 00:39:16,145 --> 00:39:19,720 family, make sure you can you can click these links. 756 00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:21,160 So maybe you wanna try it out right now. 757 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:25,360 I'll give you a second to do that before we go into the q and a. 758 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:30,400 Okay. 759 00:39:31,805 --> 00:39:32,605 Has anyone tried? 760 00:39:32,605 --> 00:39:34,685 Give me a thumbs up if you're able to hit, 761 00:39:34,685 --> 00:39:36,285 try one of these links. 762 00:39:36,285 --> 00:39:38,725 Good? I get a thumbs up. Good. 763 00:39:38,765 --> 00:39:41,005 Okay. So let's do q and a. 764 00:39:41,005 --> 00:39:44,165 We've got roughly eighteen minutes left. 765 00:39:44,340 --> 00:39:47,940 It's actually a miracle I finished this on time Perfect. 766 00:39:47,940 --> 00:39:49,140 Within two minutes. 767 00:39:49,140 --> 00:39:51,540 So Perfect. 768 00:39:51,540 --> 00:39:51,860 Okay. 769 00:39:51,860 --> 00:39:53,220 So let's then I'll just yeah. 770 00:39:53,220 --> 00:39:56,180 I can I either you just read them going straight down, 771 00:39:56,180 --> 00:39:57,220 or I can read them to you, 772 00:39:57,220 --> 00:39:59,025 whatever you Let me look at the top? 773 00:39:59,025 --> 00:40:03,545 Let me see. How many do we get here? Quite a few. Okay. 774 00:40:04,305 --> 00:40:05,625 So 775 00:40:06,865 --> 00:40:10,785 Alex, Ramke said, for the red five VABs with t one 776 00:40:10,785 --> 00:40:14,160 l with being Ethernet, will we still achieve the same speeds 777 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,880 we do typically with Ethernet cable? 778 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,520 Do we have to wire length limitations with t one l VABs 779 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:20,640 like we do with Ethernet, 780 00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,720 or do we have improved installation lengths? 781 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:24,000 That is an excellent question. 782 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,160 I hope that you hopefully, my webinar answered that question, 783 00:40:27,225 --> 00:40:29,265 but I'll reiterate it. 784 00:40:30,265 --> 00:40:34,665 We so t one l ten base t one l is ten megabits per 785 00:40:34,665 --> 00:40:38,025 second rather than a hundred megabits per second. 786 00:40:38,025 --> 00:40:39,785 So it is it's slightly slower. 787 00:40:39,785 --> 00:40:43,105 It's it's basically the same speed as our old DSCs 788 00:40:43,590 --> 00:40:44,390 would do. 789 00:40:44,390 --> 00:40:46,950 Ten megabits per second overbalanced, 790 00:40:46,950 --> 00:40:48,790 twisted pair of cabling. 791 00:40:48,790 --> 00:40:51,430 Do we have the same wire length limitations? No. 792 00:40:51,430 --> 00:40:55,710 T one l wire length is longer than standard, 793 00:40:55,910 --> 00:40:57,590 Ethernet. What is standard Ethernet? 794 00:40:57,590 --> 00:40:58,910 It's three hundred feet. 795 00:40:58,915 --> 00:41:00,195 It's three hundred feet. 796 00:41:00,195 --> 00:41:03,715 Whereas, we can go up to we've tested up 797 00:41:03,715 --> 00:41:05,515 to six hundred meters. 798 00:41:09,475 --> 00:41:10,955 Andrew Little, 799 00:41:11,790 --> 00:41:15,150 is the DVC formally end of life? 800 00:41:15,150 --> 00:41:18,350 So the DVC three twenty two e, 801 00:41:18,350 --> 00:41:20,670 the Ethernet DVC controllers, Andrew, 802 00:41:20,670 --> 00:41:22,910 they're all end of life already. 803 00:41:22,910 --> 00:41:26,190 We will be sending out an announcement that'll give you 804 00:41:26,190 --> 00:41:29,685 the last time buy, last time ship for DVC products that'll 805 00:41:29,685 --> 00:41:31,605 be starting in twenty twenty seven. 806 00:41:31,605 --> 00:41:33,285 So we will be we yes. 807 00:41:33,285 --> 00:41:37,485 We will be phasing those controllers out over the next year. 808 00:41:37,605 --> 00:41:41,685 This time next year will probably be around the the last time ship. 809 00:41:41,685 --> 00:41:45,300 So q two twenty twenty seven will be the end of of the DVC 810 00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:49,580 twenty two, DVC product line, MSTP and Ethernet. 811 00:41:57,185 --> 00:41:58,585 Actually 812 00:42:00,385 --> 00:42:00,785 okay. 813 00:42:00,785 --> 00:42:03,465 Let's see. I gotta find another question here. 814 00:42:05,025 --> 00:42:07,585 Probably the next one is that need to add the stack 815 00:42:07,585 --> 00:42:11,440 configuration tab with the air balance tab and configuration. 816 00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:12,480 Is that a Oh, yeah. 817 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,400 You know, that's a good that's a good that's more of a statement than a question. 818 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:16,720 Yeah. 819 00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:20,880 We we're gonna we are working on our new 820 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:24,035 embedded graphics for the VAV controllers. 821 00:42:24,035 --> 00:42:28,035 Actually, all, v four IP controllers will be supporting, 822 00:42:28,035 --> 00:42:31,195 embedded graphics, this summer. 823 00:42:31,395 --> 00:42:33,155 We're already looking at the prototypes. 824 00:42:33,155 --> 00:42:36,635 We're about to go to beta probably the next month and a bit. 825 00:42:37,490 --> 00:42:40,370 So that gives us the opportunity to build proper 826 00:42:40,370 --> 00:42:44,810 configuration and balancing pages as well. 827 00:42:46,850 --> 00:42:50,135 Do red do red five Ethernet devices 828 00:42:50,135 --> 00:42:53,095 support eight zero eight zero two point one f? 829 00:42:53,095 --> 00:42:54,935 So that that's a oh my god. 830 00:42:54,935 --> 00:42:57,295 That's gonna take another webinar. 831 00:42:58,295 --> 00:43:00,615 The we're we are working on that, 832 00:43:00,615 --> 00:43:01,815 and I'm gonna leave it at that. 833 00:43:01,815 --> 00:43:03,375 We are working on it. 834 00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:04,440 K. 835 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,480 IPV controllers have special requirements for switches? 836 00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:10,680 No. They don't. 837 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,120 We so Delta v four controllers, 838 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:18,080 IP based v controllers are a hundred megabits per second 839 00:43:19,085 --> 00:43:19,965 max. 840 00:43:19,965 --> 00:43:24,445 So, basically, any standard IT switch will 841 00:43:24,445 --> 00:43:25,565 will be able to you know, 842 00:43:25,565 --> 00:43:28,805 you can have those net controllers on that network. 843 00:43:29,005 --> 00:43:32,760 T one l, the only special requirement you need for a t 844 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:37,720 one l controller is to add the con t one l or other media converter. 845 00:43:37,720 --> 00:43:41,400 So you need to convert the t one l to standard Ethernet or 846 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:42,720 IP. 847 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:44,145 K. 848 00:43:44,145 --> 00:43:47,345 Next one down is probably the when are we gonna get the 849 00:43:47,345 --> 00:43:51,425 service tool to connect the RedPipe field controllers? 850 00:43:51,425 --> 00:43:54,705 It's funny how we have this question come up in a 851 00:43:54,705 --> 00:43:58,785 DV webinar, and we're asking about a completely 852 00:43:58,785 --> 00:44:00,425 unrelated product. 853 00:44:00,910 --> 00:44:02,870 You're gonna get it 854 00:44:03,550 --> 00:44:04,830 imminently. 855 00:44:04,830 --> 00:44:08,670 Soonest. Tool. Yeah. The service tool is complete. 856 00:44:08,670 --> 00:44:11,870 We're just right now wrapping up the paperwork to send out 857 00:44:11,870 --> 00:44:14,550 the release notification on it. 858 00:44:15,165 --> 00:44:16,605 Is there any concern You know what? 859 00:44:16,605 --> 00:44:17,325 Hold on a second. 860 00:44:17,325 --> 00:44:19,965 You guys asked a question about an unrelated product in the webinar. 861 00:44:19,965 --> 00:44:21,965 I just told you you're getting it. 862 00:44:21,965 --> 00:44:24,925 Can I at least get a little bit of hoopla about it? 863 00:44:24,925 --> 00:44:26,685 There it is. Look at them all. 864 00:44:26,685 --> 00:44:27,885 Look at the hearts. 865 00:44:27,885 --> 00:44:30,180 I know. It's about bloody time, isn't it? 866 00:44:30,180 --> 00:44:32,500 I know. I know. That's why. Too angry. 867 00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:34,740 I'm surprised I don't see any angry faces in there. 868 00:44:34,740 --> 00:44:36,460 I'd expect more 869 00:44:38,420 --> 00:44:41,580 Alan, do you actually have something to say on that one? 870 00:44:41,860 --> 00:44:43,980 No. He didn't. Okay. Okay. 871 00:44:44,475 --> 00:44:48,075 Next one's probably, is there a concern with having all the 872 00:44:48,075 --> 00:44:51,595 power on the field VAV running on MSTP? 873 00:44:51,595 --> 00:44:54,995 Will the network communication suffer, etcetera? 874 00:44:55,435 --> 00:44:58,235 ******* having all the power running MSTP. 875 00:44:58,235 --> 00:44:59,635 Well, network communication. 876 00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:00,520 Yeah. 877 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:04,720 Do you mean by the actual I'm not sure I understand the question. 878 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,560 Like, do we mean how we're powering the controllers or the actual 879 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,065 power of the processor and memory? 880 00:45:13,065 --> 00:45:15,305 If it's the latter, no. 881 00:45:15,305 --> 00:45:18,345 Because we I mean, MSTP is still MSTP, 882 00:45:18,345 --> 00:45:23,025 and you still have to follow our guidelines on how you would 883 00:45:23,865 --> 00:45:25,465 deploy an MSTP network. 884 00:45:25,465 --> 00:45:29,450 You know, you wanna restrict the amount of data exchange it can do. 885 00:45:29,450 --> 00:45:32,730 I mean, they they have more power than the DDC controller, 886 00:45:32,730 --> 00:45:35,530 obviously, hundred hundreds of times more power, 887 00:45:35,530 --> 00:45:37,450 but MSTP is still MSTP. 888 00:45:37,450 --> 00:45:40,410 You've only got as much bandwidth as it can handle. 889 00:45:40,410 --> 00:45:45,675 You know, a highway can handle much more traffic than a side road can. 890 00:45:45,675 --> 00:45:49,995 MSTP is your side road compared to a interstate freeway. 891 00:45:49,995 --> 00:45:53,675 So you're still limited to the bandwidth with MSTP, 892 00:45:53,675 --> 00:45:56,930 but that doesn't really factor into what what the 893 00:45:56,930 --> 00:45:59,890 controller power can do unless you, you know, 894 00:45:59,890 --> 00:46:02,970 you're overdoing your MSTP network. 895 00:46:04,370 --> 00:46:08,370 Will there be an actuator list version of the red five 896 00:46:08,370 --> 00:46:12,495 VAV controller for instances that require specialized actuators? 897 00:46:12,495 --> 00:46:14,455 That's a great question. 898 00:46:14,655 --> 00:46:16,535 Thank you for that, Kelly. 899 00:46:16,655 --> 00:46:20,575 The answer is yes, but not quite yet. 900 00:46:20,575 --> 00:46:22,495 We have to work on a few other things first. 901 00:46:22,495 --> 00:46:26,210 But, yes, the plan is to also release a red five 902 00:46:26,210 --> 00:46:29,210 controller that can have an external actuator. 903 00:46:29,250 --> 00:46:32,210 One of the the perks that we're getting out of building the 904 00:46:32,210 --> 00:46:35,170 unitary controller is everything is gonna start 905 00:46:35,170 --> 00:46:37,730 converging on similar technology, the same 906 00:46:37,730 --> 00:46:41,225 architecture from, you know, controller architecture. 907 00:46:41,225 --> 00:46:45,465 I mean, the actual, circuits and processing power and all that. 908 00:46:45,465 --> 00:46:48,665 So once we have that platform in place, 909 00:46:48,665 --> 00:46:52,425 we can kinda build any sort of product on top of that platform. 910 00:46:52,425 --> 00:46:55,585 It allows us to move a lot quicker because we're not redesigning, 911 00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:58,720 you know, the brains of the controller every time. 912 00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:02,640 So, yes, it's a huge thing that I wanna do is a Red five 913 00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,280 VAV controller without an actuator, 914 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:09,160 but it'll probably be after the unitary program. 915 00:47:11,275 --> 00:47:13,915 Lawn works also has mixed wiring, not only daisy chain, 916 00:47:13,915 --> 00:47:14,795 but free topology. 917 00:47:14,795 --> 00:47:17,195 So t one l also free topology. No. 918 00:47:17,195 --> 00:47:19,035 I hope my webinar answered that too. 919 00:47:19,035 --> 00:47:22,475 You have to return number one, you have to re terminate. 920 00:47:22,475 --> 00:47:26,560 So you can't start you can't have t's or stars or 921 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:27,600 free topologies. 922 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:31,240 It is a point to point connection 923 00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:36,240 that is going through path through the, the the t one l, 924 00:47:36,240 --> 00:47:39,365 transceivers that we have on the controller is basically a t one l switch. 925 00:47:39,365 --> 00:47:41,525 Think of it as just a standard switch. 926 00:47:41,525 --> 00:47:43,685 So the controller is now, 927 00:47:43,685 --> 00:47:46,485 navigating that network traffic. 928 00:47:46,485 --> 00:47:48,645 So, no, you cannot have mixed wire. 929 00:47:48,645 --> 00:47:50,885 You can't have t's or stars or anything like that. 930 00:47:50,885 --> 00:47:55,325 The one thing t one l can do is detect 931 00:47:55,370 --> 00:47:57,170 the polarity. 932 00:48:00,090 --> 00:48:01,130 From network standpoint, 933 00:48:01,130 --> 00:48:04,890 are the two segments downstream of t one l separate segments? 934 00:48:04,890 --> 00:48:06,570 Does heavy traffic on one segment, 935 00:48:06,570 --> 00:48:07,770 impede traffic on another? 936 00:48:07,770 --> 00:48:09,485 That's a great question. 937 00:48:09,485 --> 00:48:12,005 So from a networking standpoint, 938 00:48:12,205 --> 00:48:15,805 that network drawing I showed you let me see if I can find it here. 939 00:48:15,805 --> 00:48:20,085 I'll go back to that drawing. Where is it? 940 00:48:20,205 --> 00:48:21,285 Right here. 941 00:48:23,870 --> 00:48:26,110 These devices are all on the same network. 942 00:48:26,110 --> 00:48:29,070 Even on this t I kinda drew this t one l network kind of in 943 00:48:29,070 --> 00:48:33,070 a funny way just to illustrate the capabilities of the the con t one l. 944 00:48:33,070 --> 00:48:38,205 But all of these devices are wired in a fashion 945 00:48:38,205 --> 00:48:41,165 that they're on the same IP subnet. 946 00:48:41,165 --> 00:48:44,485 So, yes, heavy traffic could impact, 947 00:48:45,165 --> 00:48:47,485 the entire network on a flat that's why we're coming up with 948 00:48:47,485 --> 00:48:51,890 new, networking guidelines to give you guys best practices 949 00:48:51,890 --> 00:48:55,570 for, flat networks, things like restricting broadcast. 950 00:48:55,570 --> 00:48:59,810 Make sure your BDE controllers or your BDE objects are set up correctly. 951 00:48:59,810 --> 00:49:02,290 Don't be broadcasting data for BDEs. 952 00:49:02,290 --> 00:49:04,090 Make sure that you only have 953 00:49:04,545 --> 00:49:06,465 a one to many for transmission, 954 00:49:06,465 --> 00:49:08,785 not a many many to transmit and receive, 955 00:49:08,785 --> 00:49:12,665 things like that to help reduce heavy traffic. 956 00:49:14,945 --> 00:49:17,745 Greg has written, can you write to AVs, BDs, 957 00:49:17,745 --> 00:49:21,240 or MVs or PGs from the Python environment? 958 00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:23,760 That's a really good question too. 959 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,240 The answer to that is yes and no. 960 00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:32,295 Python is not designed to do control algorithms. 961 00:49:32,295 --> 00:49:35,495 It's not fast enough the way it interacts with BACnet. 962 00:49:35,495 --> 00:49:39,255 In the future, we are planning on bringing that capability to the, 963 00:49:39,255 --> 00:49:41,375 to the Python environment. 964 00:49:41,575 --> 00:49:44,615 But there's a lot of technical work we have to do in order to get there. 965 00:49:44,615 --> 00:49:47,940 So, yes, it can actually write to an AV. 966 00:49:47,940 --> 00:49:49,620 I I use it for writing, like, 967 00:49:49,620 --> 00:49:53,780 weather data to a CSV or into AV description 968 00:49:53,780 --> 00:49:56,820 field, but it's slowly it's slow and 969 00:49:56,820 --> 00:50:00,020 it's not designed to do control algorithms, 970 00:50:00,020 --> 00:50:01,980 but we would like to get there. 971 00:50:03,115 --> 00:50:06,555 You can't use a cannot use a PG Python, 972 00:50:06,555 --> 00:50:10,395 a Python program to write to an external PG either. 973 00:50:10,395 --> 00:50:12,915 Those those PGs are their own 974 00:50:13,755 --> 00:50:16,035 independent units, if you will. 975 00:50:21,850 --> 00:50:25,290 Next one down is about the expected date for PG Python to 976 00:50:25,290 --> 00:50:29,010 come out or feature Oh, to come out of a preview feature? 977 00:50:30,075 --> 00:50:32,915 Yeah. If it were up to me, it'd be now. 978 00:50:33,115 --> 00:50:35,835 But we're still doing we're what we're doing the reason why 979 00:50:35,835 --> 00:50:39,115 it's still a preview is we're ensuring that there's 980 00:50:39,115 --> 00:50:43,275 still guardrails on it to make sure that we understand all the 981 00:50:43,275 --> 00:50:48,130 the the rules and limitations and boundaries around it. 982 00:50:48,130 --> 00:50:52,090 We also are trying to develop a library, 983 00:50:52,130 --> 00:50:55,490 from a lot of our beta testers and internally that so that we 984 00:50:55,490 --> 00:51:00,775 can provide those libraries back to you guys so that you actually have 985 00:51:02,175 --> 00:51:05,735 proper use cases and useful information that you can 986 00:51:05,855 --> 00:51:08,015 employ with PG Python. 987 00:51:08,015 --> 00:51:09,095 So 988 00:51:09,510 --> 00:51:10,950 I believe once we have all that, 989 00:51:10,950 --> 00:51:14,150 I still think we're targeting this summertime to take to 990 00:51:14,150 --> 00:51:16,750 officially have it in release grade. 991 00:51:17,590 --> 00:51:19,590 But I have to actually verify that with the firmware 992 00:51:19,590 --> 00:51:21,270 development team. 993 00:51:21,270 --> 00:51:23,270 It's pretty it's getting pretty mature now, 994 00:51:23,270 --> 00:51:24,670 so we're getting closer. 995 00:51:24,775 --> 00:51:28,175 But it won't be earlier than summer, put it that way. 996 00:51:31,335 --> 00:51:34,215 Right. Right. A lot of comments about my robot voice. 997 00:51:34,215 --> 00:51:37,215 I was probably an improvement, guys, to be honest. 998 00:51:37,975 --> 00:51:39,420 Technician tool. 999 00:51:39,420 --> 00:51:39,820 Yeah. 1000 00:51:39,820 --> 00:51:42,180 I mean, god, you don't wanna hear my 1001 00:51:42,220 --> 00:51:43,660 weasley voice. 1002 00:51:43,660 --> 00:51:47,100 Any recommendations for replacing a few VAV MSTP 1003 00:51:47,100 --> 00:51:51,660 devices and then eventually upgrading the entire subnet to t one l? 1004 00:51:51,660 --> 00:51:53,460 Oh, that's a good one. 1005 00:51:55,115 --> 00:51:57,115 How can I illustrate this? Yes. 1006 00:51:57,115 --> 00:52:00,315 I do have a recommendation for it. Thanks, Greg. Hey, Greg. 1007 00:52:00,315 --> 00:52:02,595 How are you? I haven't seen you in a long time. 1008 00:52:04,875 --> 00:52:09,250 What you could do is you upgrade part of the network 1009 00:52:09,250 --> 00:52:13,370 with t one l, but then you have to put a 1010 00:52:13,730 --> 00:52:14,770 you would have to put, like, 1011 00:52:14,770 --> 00:52:17,410 a half router in there to take like, 1012 00:52:17,410 --> 00:52:20,530 you probably have to put a a plus controller on t one l as 1013 00:52:20,530 --> 00:52:24,125 well that would pick up any remaining MSTP devices that you 1014 00:52:24,125 --> 00:52:26,045 have that you couldn't cut over. 1015 00:52:26,045 --> 00:52:27,565 So you'd have to separate the network. 1016 00:52:27,565 --> 00:52:31,405 You do part of the network in t one l with a plus controller in 1017 00:52:31,405 --> 00:52:34,925 there that maybe picks up the remaining MSTP. 1018 00:52:34,925 --> 00:52:38,050 Either that or if you have a way to run the last chunk of 1019 00:52:38,050 --> 00:52:40,210 MSTP devices back to the home controller, 1020 00:52:40,210 --> 00:52:41,490 you would have to do that as well. 1021 00:52:41,490 --> 00:52:43,690 We cannot mix and match them. 1022 00:52:44,130 --> 00:52:46,290 You missed one on there about the technician tool for 1023 00:52:46,290 --> 00:52:48,690 connecting to red five fields ETP. 1024 00:52:48,690 --> 00:52:49,730 I just answered that. 1025 00:52:49,730 --> 00:52:53,335 So the red the technician tool is coming out, like, in Oh, yeah. 1026 00:52:53,335 --> 00:52:54,135 Yeah. Yeah. Two weeks. 1027 00:52:54,135 --> 00:52:56,055 Not even. A week. I I think May seventh. 1028 00:52:56,055 --> 00:52:59,255 We I think we have the May seventh date for the 1029 00:52:59,255 --> 00:53:00,215 announcement to come out. 1030 00:53:00,215 --> 00:53:02,735 Yep. It's just in paperwork right now. 1031 00:53:03,975 --> 00:53:07,560 Rob Luke is saying, if you have an EV manager 1032 00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:12,160 or Red Flag Plus with MSTP DVCs under it, 1033 00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,600 you are changing VEVs out one at a time. 1034 00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:17,400 Is there a reason you couldn't temporarily connect the t one 1035 00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:21,005 l, that one to the MSTP bus. 1036 00:53:21,005 --> 00:53:24,245 And then once they are changed out, move the wire. 1037 00:53:25,325 --> 00:53:27,525 I think that goes back 1038 00:53:29,565 --> 00:53:29,885 yeah. 1039 00:53:29,885 --> 00:53:31,005 I know what Rob's asking. 1040 00:53:31,005 --> 00:53:33,845 He wants kind of t one l and 1041 00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,880 MSTP on the same controller and switch it out. 1042 00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:38,560 We don't have that yet. 1043 00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:41,120 You'd have to do it where you split the network, Rob. 1044 00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:42,800 Again, you have to take the MSTP, 1045 00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:44,720 separate that back to net two, 1046 00:53:44,720 --> 00:53:49,235 and then take your cat five out to a con t one l and then take 1047 00:53:49,235 --> 00:53:51,355 that to your t one l network. 1048 00:53:54,515 --> 00:53:58,275 Jeremy is asking, does it work over eighteen gauge wire? Yes. 1049 00:53:58,275 --> 00:54:00,635 We've actually tested over eighteen gauge wire, 1050 00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:06,880 and it seems to not all eighteen gauge wire is is the same. 1051 00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:11,200 So you do have to do a you you do have to 1052 00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,305 observe the site, take a look at the quality of the wire, 1053 00:54:14,305 --> 00:54:17,505 the state of the you know, what state it's in. 1054 00:54:17,505 --> 00:54:19,945 We did a, case study, 1055 00:54:20,065 --> 00:54:23,985 where we wired up our entire network basically over eighteen gauge. 1056 00:54:23,985 --> 00:54:27,120 But we've had mixed we've had mixed success on it. 1057 00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:29,680 Some eighteen gauge wire hasn't worked well. 1058 00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,560 Some gate eighteen gauge wire has worked okay. 1059 00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:38,360 And it comes down to what that cable impedance is typically. 1060 00:54:39,475 --> 00:54:42,515 We found that the most suitable wire is actually twenty two 1061 00:54:42,515 --> 00:54:45,675 gauge has given us the best results in our testing. 1062 00:54:46,515 --> 00:54:50,435 Isaiah Isaiah Blanco says, dZNR device for boosting network 1063 00:54:50,435 --> 00:54:52,275 length over sixty four devices. 1064 00:54:52,275 --> 00:54:53,115 No. 1065 00:54:53,450 --> 00:54:55,130 That will not work. 1066 00:54:55,130 --> 00:54:58,090 There will no be no device for boosting the network length 1067 00:54:58,090 --> 00:55:01,330 over sixty four devices on a t one l network. 1068 00:55:02,730 --> 00:55:06,330 I would say that sixty four devices is even pushing it. 1069 00:55:06,330 --> 00:55:08,835 We support it, but, I mean, 1070 00:55:08,835 --> 00:55:11,475 that's the maximum that we support for MSTP. 1071 00:55:11,475 --> 00:55:12,995 That's what we test with. 1072 00:55:12,995 --> 00:55:16,915 So the maximum devices we test our t one l networks is sixty four devices. 1073 00:55:16,915 --> 00:55:20,155 So that's what we limit our support to. 1074 00:55:22,770 --> 00:55:24,770 Sixty four device oh, this is a great question. 1075 00:55:24,770 --> 00:55:28,370 Christopher McLeod asked, sixty four devices is the max, 1076 00:55:28,370 --> 00:55:30,850 but what is the recommended number for a run? 1077 00:55:30,850 --> 00:55:34,970 I guess it's gonna that that question is gonna come down to 1078 00:55:37,045 --> 00:55:41,045 it's gonna have to come down to that saying your mileage may vary. 1079 00:55:41,045 --> 00:55:42,565 A lot of companies, 1080 00:55:42,565 --> 00:55:46,245 I worked for a company where they didn't like to have MSTP 1081 00:55:46,245 --> 00:55:48,845 networks over thirty two devices. 1082 00:55:50,110 --> 00:55:53,150 So they limit no matter what we said, they said, nope. 1083 00:55:53,150 --> 00:55:57,350 We're never building an MSTP trunk over six thirty two devices. 1084 00:55:57,790 --> 00:55:59,950 T one l, I would think it's probably the same thing. 1085 00:55:59,950 --> 00:56:02,830 Your limitation is how long is the complete network? 1086 00:56:02,830 --> 00:56:04,990 How long is it between devices? 1087 00:56:04,990 --> 00:56:06,150 And 1088 00:56:06,725 --> 00:56:09,485 what kind of quality is is the wire? 1089 00:56:10,565 --> 00:56:14,245 So I would say if you if your company likes to play 1090 00:56:14,245 --> 00:56:15,765 conservative, you could say, well, 1091 00:56:15,765 --> 00:56:18,445 recommended devices is thirty or thirty two. 1092 00:56:18,980 --> 00:56:23,900 We test with sixty four over various different wire engages. 1093 00:56:24,740 --> 00:56:27,060 And then John here actually said same as MSTP. 1094 00:56:27,060 --> 00:56:29,540 Thirty two to forty looks good for a solid network. 1095 00:56:29,540 --> 00:56:31,580 I'm going with max fifty. 1096 00:56:31,635 --> 00:56:34,435 So it's not an exact science, but John's playing it sick. 1097 00:56:34,435 --> 00:56:35,635 He's playing it conservative, 1098 00:56:35,635 --> 00:56:38,435 which is which is totally a good thing to do because it 1099 00:56:38,435 --> 00:56:41,155 costs less money in the long run when you play it 1100 00:56:41,155 --> 00:56:43,115 conservative rather than push it. 1101 00:56:43,490 --> 00:56:44,450 Real quick, Andy. 1102 00:56:44,450 --> 00:56:45,490 We are Oh my god. 1103 00:56:45,490 --> 00:56:46,210 There's so many questions. 1104 00:56:46,210 --> 00:56:48,370 On our time. Yeah. That's okay. No problem. 1105 00:56:48,370 --> 00:56:50,850 So we'll go through and we'll just continue to answer these questions, 1106 00:56:50,850 --> 00:56:52,930 but I just wanted to let everybody know again just so 1107 00:56:52,930 --> 00:56:55,090 you are aware this will all still be recorded, 1108 00:56:55,090 --> 00:56:57,985 and I will compile all these q and a's and send it out to you. 1109 00:56:57,985 --> 00:57:00,625 So if you have to run and your question has not been answered, 1110 00:57:00,625 --> 00:57:02,065 we will still keep going through them. 1111 00:57:02,065 --> 00:57:04,225 So keep it moving, Andy. We got this. 1112 00:57:04,225 --> 00:57:06,385 Okay. Yeah. Anybody who wants keep up, go ahead. 1113 00:57:06,385 --> 00:57:09,120 I I understand completely. We're at eleven. 1114 00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:12,120 So there are a couple of questions here 1115 00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:14,560 that I do wanna address. 1116 00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:18,160 So Donald Schroeder asked, can the CON t one l be installed 1117 00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,760 midsegment on the t one l network allowing for four 1118 00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:23,575 separate segments to branch off from it? 1119 00:57:23,575 --> 00:57:28,055 So I'm guessing if we look at at this 1120 00:57:28,055 --> 00:57:31,295 network here where I've added 1121 00:57:32,055 --> 00:57:36,055 a con t one I've sort of done that right here with these devices. 1122 00:57:36,055 --> 00:57:37,860 I've I've taken a t one l network. 1123 00:57:37,860 --> 00:57:40,180 I've branched off of the t one l network, 1124 00:57:40,180 --> 00:57:45,380 and I've gone cat five up to a red five edge controller. 1125 00:57:45,380 --> 00:57:46,980 So, yeah, you could you could do that, 1126 00:57:46,980 --> 00:57:50,620 but you would probably have to lay the network out in a in a 1127 00:57:50,865 --> 00:57:54,785 logical fashion so that it's still easy to follow and 1128 00:57:54,785 --> 00:57:56,745 is serviceable. 1129 00:57:59,425 --> 00:58:00,465 Andrew Little said, 1130 00:58:00,465 --> 00:58:04,100 what do you do if you have switches that do not support ten meg anymore? 1131 00:58:04,100 --> 00:58:06,740 It doesn't impact t one l because you're going through a 1132 00:58:06,740 --> 00:58:07,700 con t one l. 1133 00:58:07,700 --> 00:58:11,700 So the con t one l supports ten one hundred on 1134 00:58:11,700 --> 00:58:13,820 the cat five side. 1135 00:58:18,595 --> 00:58:20,835 How do the firmware updates for the field devices over the 1136 00:58:20,835 --> 00:58:22,875 network performed terribly? 1137 00:58:24,115 --> 00:58:27,475 We are working on I'm I'm good. I'm not in sales guys. 1138 00:58:27,475 --> 00:58:29,195 I'm gonna tell you guys the real 1139 00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:33,480 so firmware upgrades over MSTP, 1140 00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,320 especially in the v four landscape, 1141 00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:39,480 are a lesson in patients quite 1142 00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:43,000 literally because we're talking firmware files that are now 1143 00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:47,095 twenty four or twenty five megabytes compared to back in 1144 00:58:47,095 --> 00:58:49,735 the DSC DAC days where they're, like, 1145 00:58:49,735 --> 00:58:51,855 twenty four kilobytes. 1146 00:58:53,095 --> 00:58:54,455 So we're talking, you know, 1147 00:58:54,455 --> 00:58:58,415 hundreds or thousand times size difference in file size, 1148 00:59:01,340 --> 00:59:04,140 and we're running over seventy six eight. 1149 00:59:04,140 --> 00:59:09,580 So firmware is an item of contention internally here. 1150 00:59:09,580 --> 00:59:11,900 Know it is amongst you guys as well. 1151 00:59:11,900 --> 00:59:13,340 There's a couple of things you could do. 1152 00:59:13,340 --> 00:59:14,340 For now, 1153 00:59:15,085 --> 00:59:17,805 we're working on firmware broadcasts. 1154 00:59:17,805 --> 00:59:21,645 So basically, what that means is you can broadcast the 1155 00:59:21,645 --> 00:59:25,525 firmware update onto an MSTP network 1156 00:59:26,620 --> 00:59:29,500 and it'll update every single device at once. 1157 00:59:29,500 --> 00:59:31,980 And you basically just tell it what network you wanna update. 1158 00:59:31,980 --> 00:59:36,780 So what that means is if it took three hours to upgrade one device, 1159 00:59:36,780 --> 00:59:39,660 it'll also take three hours to upgrade all of the devices 1160 00:59:39,660 --> 00:59:41,695 because they're all gonna upgrade at the same time, 1161 00:59:41,695 --> 00:59:44,415 but you'll never be less than three hours, essentially. 1162 00:59:44,415 --> 00:59:46,415 The other thing that we're working on right now, 1163 00:59:46,415 --> 00:59:47,695 it's ongoing development. 1164 00:59:47,695 --> 00:59:49,695 It has been for probably the last year, 1165 00:59:49,695 --> 00:59:51,855 is the differential firmware. 1166 00:59:51,855 --> 00:59:54,975 So that means that rather than sending the whole entire 1167 00:59:54,975 --> 00:59:59,500 firmware file, we just send the what's changed in the binary. 1168 00:59:59,500 --> 01:00:02,420 And that should give us a lot more 1169 01:00:03,820 --> 01:00:06,380 efficiency when we're transferring that firmware file. 1170 01:00:06,380 --> 01:00:09,020 So it's not great right now, 1171 01:00:09,020 --> 01:00:11,825 but we are working on ways to improve it. 1172 01:00:11,825 --> 01:00:14,145 The other thing that you can do to hold you over until we have 1173 01:00:14,145 --> 01:00:18,385 all that stuff released is to do the dual mode firmware update. 1174 01:00:18,385 --> 01:00:20,305 So, basically, 1175 01:00:20,305 --> 01:00:23,505 plan for a firmware update before you get to site if you 1176 01:00:23,505 --> 01:00:26,185 have access to this site, remote access. 1177 01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:29,680 Do the staged update, which means you upload the firmware 1178 01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:32,400 file to each controller ahead of time, 1179 01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:33,760 and it just sits in its flash memory. 1180 01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,240 It doesn't actually deploy the firmware, 1181 01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:39,280 and it doesn't impact the functionality of the controller. 1182 01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,960 It doesn't disrupt the network or anything like that. 1183 01:00:42,025 --> 01:00:45,385 And it'll just upload all those firmware files however long it takes. 1184 01:00:45,385 --> 01:00:46,585 And then when you get to site, 1185 01:00:46,585 --> 01:00:48,665 all you have to do is tell the controller to use that new 1186 01:00:48,665 --> 01:00:49,705 firmware file. 1187 01:00:49,705 --> 01:00:52,945 So that's one thing you can do for now until you 1188 01:00:53,865 --> 01:00:56,505 until you're, we have those new methodologies 1189 01:00:56,505 --> 01:00:59,070 of firmware loading. 1190 01:01:08,230 --> 01:01:10,190 I'm just racing here. 1191 01:01:10,655 --> 01:01:14,175 Probably all the way down to can NFC be removable for jobs 1192 01:01:14,175 --> 01:01:15,695 that don't allow it. 1193 01:01:15,695 --> 01:01:18,935 Oh, where is that? Yes. Can it okay. 1194 01:01:19,375 --> 01:01:20,655 Thank you, Darren. 1195 01:01:20,655 --> 01:01:23,855 I think it's like you're an you're you're a plant, 1196 01:01:23,855 --> 01:01:28,110 an audience plant, So you'll get me to plug our new controller. 1197 01:01:29,510 --> 01:01:31,750 Watch for an announcement in the next couple of days. 1198 01:01:31,750 --> 01:01:35,350 We are releasing the new red five secured facility models 1199 01:01:35,350 --> 01:01:39,230 that'll have NFC and BLE removed 1200 01:01:39,795 --> 01:01:41,395 from the controller. 1201 01:01:41,395 --> 01:01:44,275 So that'll be the new red five secondurity facility. 1202 01:01:44,275 --> 01:01:47,395 You should see an announcement go up Friday, actually. 1203 01:01:47,395 --> 01:01:48,995 It would have gone up today, actually, 1204 01:01:48,995 --> 01:01:53,275 but we're still waiting for some, paperwork to be, filed. 1205 01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:58,480 Okay. 1206 01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:05,680 I'm just gonna skip over some of these questions. 1207 01:02:10,465 --> 01:02:13,905 Can you please share the future plans for the DVCPoe controllers? 1208 01:02:13,905 --> 01:02:14,785 That's a good question. 1209 01:02:14,785 --> 01:02:16,545 Is there a red five replacement coming, 1210 01:02:16,545 --> 01:02:19,420 and will POE remain an option for VAV controllers? 1211 01:02:19,420 --> 01:02:21,180 So the plan is this, 1212 01:02:21,180 --> 01:02:25,900 the DVC PoE controllers will not go anywhere until we have a replacement. 1213 01:02:25,900 --> 01:02:29,420 So, power over Ethernet DVC will be the only one that we 1214 01:02:29,420 --> 01:02:31,380 don't obsolete. 1215 01:02:31,660 --> 01:02:32,140 Yes. 1216 01:02:32,140 --> 01:02:34,420 There will be a replacement coming 1217 01:02:35,235 --> 01:02:37,355 in red five world, 1218 01:02:38,195 --> 01:02:41,475 but we just have to schedule it in to work on it. 1219 01:02:41,475 --> 01:02:46,075 But we are planning on doing a power over Ethernet model of red five. 1220 01:02:49,010 --> 01:02:50,570 Okay. 1221 01:02:52,930 --> 01:02:56,610 Does it work on an eighteen dash two shielded wire, 1222 01:02:56,610 --> 01:02:58,370 so not a big network? 1223 01:02:58,370 --> 01:03:00,170 Yeah. We it does. 1224 01:03:00,175 --> 01:03:03,935 Again, it it comes down to the quality of the wire and the distance. 1225 01:03:03,935 --> 01:03:07,055 So you'll have to look at if you could get the wire specs to 1226 01:03:07,055 --> 01:03:10,575 make sure that the overall line impedance isn't over a hundred 1227 01:03:10,575 --> 01:03:13,415 ohms, I believe it it should work okay. 1228 01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:17,440 Again, it it comes down to going to site and doing a site survey 1229 01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:20,800 and maybe even getting a picoscope and testing the cable 1230 01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,560 out and looking for reflections and that kind of thing. 1231 01:03:28,625 --> 01:03:32,545 Ryan, said, can you explain a bit how to troubleshoot the t one l or 1232 01:03:32,545 --> 01:03:36,185 edge networks with Wireshark under back that secure connect? 1233 01:03:36,545 --> 01:03:39,265 Actually, that's a good question, Ryan. Hey, Ryan. 1234 01:03:39,265 --> 01:03:41,625 Good to see you. That's good that you're here. 1235 01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:48,640 We're we've got Wireshark built into the controllers now, and 1236 01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:52,960 we are working on having the ability to, 1237 01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:55,800 take captures of encrypted traffic, 1238 01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:58,835 but it's not something that is actually I have to look and see 1239 01:03:58,835 --> 01:04:00,515 where we are with it with the firmware team. 1240 01:04:00,515 --> 01:04:02,555 But, yes, that is coming. 1241 01:04:02,915 --> 01:04:06,155 And right now, Wireshark is built right into the controller. 1242 01:04:09,315 --> 01:04:11,220 Sarah Sarah Smith is asking, 1243 01:04:11,220 --> 01:04:14,180 is embedded graphics like the etouch saving a graphic into 1244 01:04:14,180 --> 01:04:16,260 the controller along with the database? 1245 01:04:16,260 --> 01:04:21,820 Actually, so the embedded graphics will work in a similar fashion. 1246 01:04:22,020 --> 01:04:26,015 You will load the graphic the controller graphic into an 1247 01:04:26,015 --> 01:04:29,455 FIL object, and that FIL object is part of the database. 1248 01:04:29,455 --> 01:04:31,535 So if you save the controller database out, 1249 01:04:31,535 --> 01:04:32,975 you'll save the graphics with it. 1250 01:04:32,975 --> 01:04:35,295 So if you do, again, a VAV network, for instance, 1251 01:04:35,295 --> 01:04:37,695 you could take that single database with a graphic in it 1252 01:04:37,695 --> 01:04:40,455 and deploy it to all of your VAV controllers. 1253 01:04:43,910 --> 01:04:46,790 Corey asks, are there any updates or timelines with regards to 1254 01:04:46,790 --> 01:04:49,270 refresh the Intellibus platform? 1255 01:04:49,270 --> 01:04:52,150 Stay tuned for a separate webinar on that. 1256 01:04:52,150 --> 01:04:53,670 That's a a big question. 1257 01:04:53,670 --> 01:04:58,165 There are plans to refresh the Intellibus system. 1258 01:04:58,165 --> 01:05:00,565 Exactly what that all entails kinda out of scope of what I 1259 01:05:00,565 --> 01:05:03,445 wanted to get into this because it's a big rabbit hole. 1260 01:05:03,445 --> 01:05:07,125 Question two, any plans to release an HOA version of the red five module? 1261 01:05:07,125 --> 01:05:08,045 Yes. 1262 01:05:09,940 --> 01:05:14,180 Question three, when will the twenty four VAC power supply 1263 01:05:14,180 --> 01:05:16,700 for the red five modules be released? 1264 01:05:17,140 --> 01:05:19,780 We actually wanted to release it in April this month, 1265 01:05:19,780 --> 01:05:22,740 but we found a bug with it that may that meant 1266 01:05:22,740 --> 01:05:24,705 that we had fixed the bug, 1267 01:05:24,705 --> 01:05:28,265 and then we missed the firmware release train for four twenty. 1268 01:05:28,385 --> 01:05:31,585 So we have to catch the four twenty one release train. 1269 01:05:31,585 --> 01:05:35,665 So the, Red five expand o four ACDC 1270 01:05:35,665 --> 01:05:39,910 will be released with four twenty one this summer. 1271 01:05:40,830 --> 01:05:44,990 Are we anywhere near releasing red five plus RTR with two 1272 01:05:44,990 --> 01:05:46,990 separate Ethernet ports? 1273 01:05:46,990 --> 01:05:50,390 Actually, I've just started working on the product definition for that. 1274 01:05:50,625 --> 01:05:51,985 So we are getting there. 1275 01:05:51,985 --> 01:05:54,625 It's not going to be tomorrow, 1276 01:05:54,625 --> 01:05:57,745 but we are working on the definition of it right now as I speak. 1277 01:05:57,745 --> 01:05:59,265 In fact, if I wasn't in this webinar, 1278 01:05:59,265 --> 01:06:00,665 I'd be working on that. 1279 01:06:05,570 --> 01:06:09,090 So if the actuator part dies on the red flag VAV, 1280 01:06:09,090 --> 01:06:10,210 do we have to replace the whole thing? 1281 01:06:10,210 --> 01:06:13,530 Yes. It'll have to go to RMA. It's not field replaceable. 1282 01:06:16,610 --> 01:06:20,890 Okay. Let's just get I gotta get through here. 1283 01:06:23,705 --> 01:06:27,385 Do you offer development or lab box kit that includes 1284 01:06:27,385 --> 01:06:29,145 controllers and telepromp? 1285 01:06:29,145 --> 01:06:32,945 Do we like, if they're asking if we have a prebuilt demo box 1286 01:06:33,590 --> 01:06:33,990 Oh. 1287 01:06:33,990 --> 01:06:35,230 Do. 1288 01:06:35,990 --> 01:06:37,270 That's a good thing. 1289 01:06:37,270 --> 01:06:41,230 You want, like, a a even like a training kit or a 1290 01:06:42,230 --> 01:06:43,750 so there's two answers to that. 1291 01:06:43,750 --> 01:06:46,070 Yeah. We actually do need a good marketing kit. 1292 01:06:46,070 --> 01:06:48,685 So that's something that is on a to do list for us. 1293 01:06:48,685 --> 01:06:52,285 We do we do have, IntelliCloud, 1294 01:06:52,285 --> 01:06:53,925 and we have, 1295 01:06:54,605 --> 01:06:57,605 Canvas that allows to build up 1296 01:06:59,325 --> 01:07:01,245 offline networks if well, not offline. 1297 01:07:01,245 --> 01:07:04,230 The network is online, but it's not in production. 1298 01:07:04,230 --> 01:07:08,870 So you can still, build your databases through that. 1299 01:07:08,870 --> 01:07:10,470 We also have what is it called? 1300 01:07:10,470 --> 01:07:12,750 The, Delta training 1301 01:07:13,430 --> 01:07:15,030 it was a Delta training device. 1302 01:07:15,030 --> 01:07:16,230 You can online ordering. 1303 01:07:16,230 --> 01:07:17,750 It's called the DTD, 1304 01:07:17,750 --> 01:07:21,865 and that's like a little mini IO board that sort of mimics a 1305 01:07:21,865 --> 01:07:25,065 fan coil controller with actual IO ports and a fan and 1306 01:07:25,065 --> 01:07:26,105 everything on it. 1307 01:07:26,105 --> 01:07:27,625 You can get that on online ordering, 1308 01:07:27,625 --> 01:07:30,105 you can connect that to any controller as well to work with 1309 01:07:30,105 --> 01:07:32,505 a, to do any offline programming. 1310 01:07:32,505 --> 01:07:36,230 But I think we should incorporate that into That's a good idea. 1311 01:07:36,230 --> 01:07:37,470 Yep. 1312 01:07:39,430 --> 01:07:42,630 Lyle says I can send a picture of the Ducon BT for proof. 1313 01:07:42,630 --> 01:07:43,270 Thanks, Lyle. 1314 01:07:43,270 --> 01:07:43,830 I know. 1315 01:07:43,830 --> 01:07:45,830 So Picture is different. 1316 01:07:45,830 --> 01:07:47,710 You guys are comedians. 1317 01:07:49,155 --> 01:07:51,075 I'm gonna do one more question, 1318 01:07:51,075 --> 01:07:54,315 and then we're gonna call it because there's, like, 1319 01:07:54,515 --> 01:07:57,755 a lot of these are just sort of replicating. 1320 01:07:59,475 --> 01:08:00,035 Oh, yeah. 1321 01:08:00,035 --> 01:08:02,515 I wanna I I really wanna keep answering these questions 1322 01:08:02,515 --> 01:08:05,560 regarding stability of of the network. 1323 01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:11,440 John asks, have you used unshielded wire with success? 1324 01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:14,480 Are you confident in your sixty four controller limit using 1325 01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:18,200 unshielded twenty two gauge wire? 1326 01:08:20,875 --> 01:08:22,955 There's a lot to unpack in that one. 1327 01:08:22,955 --> 01:08:25,755 So we actually have various 1328 01:08:25,755 --> 01:08:28,635 different types of wire on our internal test wall where we're 1329 01:08:28,635 --> 01:08:30,515 running sixty four controllers. 1330 01:08:32,090 --> 01:08:34,890 We're confident in our test wall. It's running really well. 1331 01:08:34,890 --> 01:08:35,930 It's running constantly. 1332 01:08:35,930 --> 01:08:38,130 It's been running for several months, 1333 01:08:38,250 --> 01:08:39,770 but every site is different. 1334 01:08:39,770 --> 01:08:43,450 So, again, it comes down to verifying the cable and verifying the 1335 01:08:43,450 --> 01:08:44,730 feasibility of that cable. 1336 01:08:44,730 --> 01:08:46,895 We have tested on unshield cable. 1337 01:08:46,895 --> 01:08:48,895 Maybe Lyle, if he's still here, could chime in. 1338 01:08:48,895 --> 01:08:50,935 He's the guy that tested it. 1339 01:08:52,495 --> 01:08:55,735 So it would come down to 1340 01:08:57,135 --> 01:09:00,575 verifying that wire on-site and and testing it out. 1341 01:09:00,575 --> 01:09:01,895 Bring your picoscope 1342 01:09:03,570 --> 01:09:05,970 and verifying how that cable's functioning. 1343 01:09:05,970 --> 01:09:09,530 Like, you have to it's good to know what the specs are on that wire. 1344 01:09:09,970 --> 01:09:12,970 We're gonna do as much as we can to publish 1345 01:09:13,995 --> 01:09:17,195 our internal test results so that we're transparent and you 1346 01:09:17,195 --> 01:09:19,835 know what we've tested with and what works. 1347 01:09:19,835 --> 01:09:20,995 So, 1348 01:09:22,235 --> 01:09:24,635 you know, we're trying to max out like, we you know, 1349 01:09:24,635 --> 01:09:27,275 we're using different gauges of wire in our own wall, 1350 01:09:27,275 --> 01:09:30,810 which is never a recommended thing just to stress test it. 1351 01:09:30,810 --> 01:09:32,330 So we're relatively common. 1352 01:09:32,330 --> 01:09:34,970 You know, we're confident in our sixty four device controller limit, 1353 01:09:34,970 --> 01:09:36,730 but as always, I mean, 1354 01:09:36,730 --> 01:09:39,210 your mileage may vary with the wire that's on-site, 1355 01:09:39,210 --> 01:09:41,330 and that's even true with MSTP. 1356 01:09:41,915 --> 01:09:44,715 We gotta make sure that the that the network itself is is 1357 01:09:44,715 --> 01:09:46,955 healthy and the topology is correct. 1358 01:09:46,955 --> 01:09:49,115 There's no t's, no stars, etcetera. 1359 01:09:49,115 --> 01:09:52,595 So there is work to be done when you deploy this stuff. 1360 01:09:58,570 --> 01:10:00,130 Okay. 1361 01:10:01,530 --> 01:10:04,090 T one l ring topology. Apologies. 1362 01:10:04,090 --> 01:10:06,370 We already answered this in the previous response. 1363 01:10:07,905 --> 01:10:08,385 No. 1364 01:10:08,385 --> 01:10:12,985 We do not support t one l in a ring topology at this time. 1365 01:10:13,425 --> 01:10:15,585 That can be something we would have to look into. 1366 01:10:15,585 --> 01:10:18,425 It's a good it's a good feature request, actually. 1367 01:10:18,785 --> 01:10:22,690 But there are, bypass relays to keep the network alive in the 1368 01:10:22,690 --> 01:10:24,810 in the loss of a device. 1369 01:10:28,850 --> 01:10:32,850 When will a t one l version of the non VAV red five edge 1370 01:10:32,850 --> 01:10:34,130 controllers be released? 1371 01:10:34,130 --> 01:10:34,610 Yes. 1372 01:10:34,610 --> 01:10:37,855 I would like to do t one l in all of our IP based 1373 01:10:37,855 --> 01:10:38,975 controllers eventually. 1374 01:10:38,975 --> 01:10:43,615 We're focusing on the application specific unitary first. 1375 01:10:43,615 --> 01:10:45,295 But, yeah, I think that's a great question. 1376 01:10:45,295 --> 01:10:47,735 That's something that we would like to do as well. 1377 01:10:49,470 --> 01:10:52,990 Someone asked if power polarity was still a problem. 1378 01:10:52,990 --> 01:10:54,910 Does does that ring a bell? 1379 01:10:54,910 --> 01:10:55,150 Yeah. 1380 01:10:55,150 --> 01:10:57,070 It really I mean, if they're sharing the same power, 1381 01:10:57,070 --> 01:10:59,470 you you have to maintain polarity on power always. 1382 01:10:59,470 --> 01:11:00,310 Okay. 1383 01:11:00,945 --> 01:11:02,665 That's a good question. 1384 01:11:02,865 --> 01:11:06,425 It has to make my job easy by asking good questions. 1385 01:11:07,745 --> 01:11:10,305 If I have a red five plus at the end of a line, 1386 01:11:10,305 --> 01:11:13,830 can I connect a con t one l to carry out the t one l b a b? 1387 01:11:13,830 --> 01:11:17,110 I'm assuming if it's a the end of a, 1388 01:11:17,110 --> 01:11:19,990 cat five network, then, yep, yeah, you could, 1389 01:11:19,990 --> 01:11:22,430 you could add a con t one l to that. 1390 01:11:24,630 --> 01:11:26,270 And 1391 01:11:28,445 --> 01:11:32,045 I think she's asking for comparison between Johnson 1392 01:11:32,045 --> 01:11:34,005 Controls and Allerton. 1393 01:11:34,365 --> 01:11:35,685 Oh, 1394 01:11:36,285 --> 01:11:37,165 that'll be up to us. 1395 01:11:37,165 --> 01:11:39,005 That's a that's a product management job. 1396 01:11:39,005 --> 01:11:40,965 That should be something that I have to do. 1397 01:11:41,500 --> 01:11:41,900 Yeah. 1398 01:11:41,900 --> 01:11:44,620 I think we would actually, I think you did one, didn't you? 1399 01:11:44,620 --> 01:11:47,580 We did. Mark we did we haven't published it. 1400 01:11:47,580 --> 01:11:49,100 We no. It's published. We have it. 1401 01:11:49,100 --> 01:11:53,125 We have the comparison of us versus Honeywell slash Allerton, 1402 01:11:53,125 --> 01:11:56,405 but I don't believe Johnson Controls at the time that I did 1403 01:11:56,405 --> 01:11:58,565 it had a t one l offering. 1404 01:11:58,565 --> 01:12:00,405 So I'm not sure if they still do. 1405 01:12:00,405 --> 01:12:04,005 But, yeah, it was Allerton's was not 1406 01:12:04,005 --> 01:12:05,445 any third party devices. 1407 01:12:05,445 --> 01:12:06,965 So they just had it on board, 1408 01:12:06,965 --> 01:12:10,770 so they did not have the equivalent of the Conn t one l. 1409 01:12:10,770 --> 01:12:13,810 So you could only use it within their EcoStruxure. 1410 01:12:13,810 --> 01:12:16,610 But it was essentially the same thing because it's the same technology. 1411 01:12:16,610 --> 01:12:19,850 So they still have ten base t one l. So. 1412 01:12:20,625 --> 01:12:23,505 Okay. Well, it's eleven fifteen. 1413 01:12:23,505 --> 01:12:26,985 Everybody that stuck around, I really, really appreciate it. 1414 01:12:27,105 --> 01:12:29,025 Thank you so much for joining us today. 1415 01:12:29,025 --> 01:12:32,665 I it's all I know you guys are busy and you got a million things to do. 1416 01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:37,160 So I always love it when I get to to interact with you. 1417 01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:38,800 And I I really, 1418 01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:43,080 really appreciate you guys taking the time to to join us today. 1419 01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:45,800 As always, you guys know how to get a hold of me, 1420 01:12:47,325 --> 01:12:49,685 and I love hearing from you. 1421 01:12:50,925 --> 01:12:51,565 That's it. 1422 01:12:51,565 --> 01:12:53,485 Thank you very much. Yep. That's perfect. 1423 01:12:53,485 --> 01:12:56,605 All of this will come out to you guys within the next week or so. 1424 01:12:56,605 --> 01:12:57,645 We really appreciate it. 1425 01:12:57,645 --> 01:13:00,010 Again, those of you who stuck around, thank you so much. 1426 01:13:00,010 --> 01:13:03,770 We also will be having our next webinar, May twenty first. 1427 01:13:03,770 --> 01:13:06,410 So everybody come see what that's all about. 1428 01:13:06,410 --> 01:13:09,290 There's good stuff with Sentra and Milsight, 1429 01:13:09,290 --> 01:13:11,530 some some interesting products there. 1430 01:13:11,530 --> 01:13:15,745 So we'll see you all soon. Appreciate it. Thanks, Andy. 1431 01:13:15,745 --> 01:13:18,145 Cheers, guys. Thanks, Emily, for all your help. 1432 01:13:18,145 --> 01:13:20,745 Bye, everyone. Bye.