Plenary session

The plenary session of the BACnet committee opened this morning, with the usual wireless network/file-sharing setup explanations (finally, after years of trying, it all just works), explanation of our voting procedures, introductions, traditional Saturday evening group dinner plans, approval of minutes, and liaison reports. The list of liaison reports changes with the membership -- with the retirement of René Quirighetti we no longer will have reports from the European standards group CEN/TC247, for example. On the other hand, with the establishment of the Smart Grid groups we will now have reports from the likes of the Energy Information Standards (EIS) Alliance's Commercial Buildings group -- headed up by none other than former BACneteer John Ruiz.

Following that, Noriaka Fijiwara presented a short form of the work of the Green University of Tokyo Project and the development of the Facility Information Access Protocol to the entire session.