# Bacnet/sc secure with encryption communication

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-sc-secure-with-encryption-communication/107209>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [June 10, 2025, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-sc-secure-with-encryption-communication/107209 "2025-06-10T06:49:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![andrea.minu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/andrea.minu/32/3326_2.png) [@andrea.minu](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrea.minu)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-sc-secure-with-encryption-communication/107209/1 "2025-06-10T06:49:51Z")

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Hello everyone,

I'm working on a project where I need to communicate with a new Johnson Controls system that uses Bacnet/SC — the secure/encrypted version of Bacnet.

As far as I know, Ignition doesn't currently support BACnet/SC directly, and it seems that Kepware doesn't support it either.

Has anyone here successfully integrated with BACnet/SC using Ignition?  
Any advice, workarounds, or suggested tools would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!  
Andrea

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**Author:** ![David\_Stone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/david_stone/32/79749_2.png) [@David\_Stone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Stone)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-sc-secure-with-encryption-communication/107209/2 "2025-06-10T09:46:17Z")

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From what I have read, it is a TLS/Websockets layer around Bacnet, so in theory existing drivers could be modified to enable it. Haven't seen it as yet.

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**Author:** ![douglas.plumley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/douglas.plumley/32/76220_2.png) [@douglas.plumley](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/douglas.plumley)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-sc-secure-with-encryption-communication/107209/3 "2025-07-01T15:11:37Z")

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Echoing @andrea.minu, we're curious when BACnet/SC will be supported by the Ignition BACnet driver.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-sc-secure-with-encryption-communication/107209/4 "2025-07-01T15:12:35Z")

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Sorry, it's not even planned at this point, so I couldn't answer that. The underlying BACnet library we use doesn't implement it.

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**Author:** ![robertm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea5d25/32.png) [@robertm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/robertm)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-sc-secure-with-encryption-communication/107209/5 "2025-07-02T00:03:49Z")

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Doing a bacnet system right now, albeit not /sc. But why not use a bacnet/sc gateway like [AHR 2023: BACnet/SC](https://www.ccontrol.com/lp/ahrsc.htm)

Bridges /sc with Bacnet/IP and /MS

Im doing Bacnet at the PLC level using an MAS field server gateway to bridge Bacnet/IP to EIP, then passing the data to Ignition through standard UA drivers.

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**Author:** ![douglas.plumley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/douglas.plumley/32/76220_2.png) [@douglas.plumley](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/douglas.plumley)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-sc-secure-with-encryption-communication/107209/6 "2025-07-29T14:41:48Z")

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It looks like a feature request for BACnet/SC support was submitted previously.

> **[Support BACnet Secure Connect (SC) | Ignition Features and Ideas | Inductive...](https://ideas.inductiveautomation.com/ignition-features-and-ideas/p/support-bacnet-secure-connect-sc)**
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> More customers are requesting or specifying BACnet Secure Connect. While adoption has been very slow, the protocol appears to have reached a point of maturity