Patent ID: 8190728

Claim:
A device for integrating a field-level building automation system device and/or a configurable field controller with an internet protocol (IP)-compatible communications network in a building, the device comprising: a control engine interface included on the device for directly communicating with the field-level building automation system device and/or the configurable field controller via a field bus; a control engine operatively coupled to the control engine interface, the control engine configured to monitor and control the field-level building automation system device and/or the configurable field controller via the field bus; a communications device for communicating on the IP-compatible communications network in the building; a web service for receiving a web service request from an application running on another device connected to the IP-compatible communications network in the building, the request received via the communications device, the web service configured to communicate with the control engine to respond to the received request, wherein the web service provides for remote service invocation of a function of the control engine; a component configured to provide clients of the device and/or the application running on the another device with information for making a remote service invocation to one or more other devices on the IP-compatible communications network, wherein the component is further configured to package the remote service invocation into a message for parsing by the one or more other device, the component configured to provide the message to the communications device for transmission to the one or more other devices.