IntesisBox KNX-Mitsubishi Electric G-50A, KNX-Mitsubishi Electric GB-50 A, KNX-Mitsubishi Electric GB-50ADA, KNX-Mitsubishi Electric AG-150A User Manual

IntesisBox

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KNX

Mitsubishi Electric G-50A/GB-50A/GB-50ADA/AG-150A

User's Manual

Issue date: 04/2018

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Gateway for integration of Mitsubishi Electric City
Multi air conditioning systems into KNX TP-1 (EIB)
control systems.

Two models are available for this gateway, with the following Order Codes:

ME-AC-KNX-15

Model supporting integration of up to 15 City Multi groups.

ME-AC-KNX-100

Model supporting integration of up to 100 City Multi groups.

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INDEX

1. Description ...................................................................................................... 5

1.1 Introduction ................................................................................................. 5

1.2 Functionality ................................................................................................. 6

1.3 Capacity of IntesisBox ................................................................................... 7

2. Interfaces ........................................................................................................ 8

2.1 KNX TP-1 (EIB) ............................................................................................. 8

2.2 Mitsubishi Electric G50 ................................................................................... 9

3. Quick Setup ................................................................................................... 12

4. Connections ................................................................................................... 13

4.1 Power device .............................................................................................. 13

4.2 Connect to KNX ........................................................................................... 14

4.3 Connect to G50 ........................................................................................... 14

4.4 Connect to PC (LinkBoxEIB) .......................................................................... 14

5. LinkBoxEIB. Configuration & monitoring tool for IntesisBox® KNX series ................ 15

5.1 Project configuration .................................................................................... 15

5.1.1 Connection configuration ........................................................................ 16

5.1.2 Signals list ........................................................................................... 19

5.1.3 Saving the configuration ........................................................................ 24

6. IntesisBox® and ETS ....................................................................................... 25

6.1 Integration of IntesisBox® in ETS .................................................................. 25

7. Mechanical & electrical characteristics ............................................................... 26

8. Dimensions.................................................................................................... 27

9. Annexes ........................................................................................................ 28

9.1 Gateways Mitsubishi Electric G-50A, GB-50A, GB-50ADA, AG-150A and AE-200A/E
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1. Description

1.1 Introduction

IntesisBox KNX - Mitsubishi Electric G50 is a communication gateway for the integration of
Mitsubishi Electric City Multi air conditioning systems into KNX TP-1 (EIB).

The aim of this integration is to make accessible the Mitsubishi Electric City Multi AC system
signals and resources from a KNX system, as if it was a part of the own KNX system. For this,
IntesisBox KNX - Mitsubishi Electric G50 acts as a KNX device in the KNX installation allowing
any KNX device to read and write its internal points.

This integration requires the Mitsubishi Electric City Multi AC system be equipped with the
Mitsubishi Electric G-50A, GB-50A, GB-50ADA, EB-50, AG-150A, AE-200A (G50 from now on)
gateway. More specific information about this gateway can be found in section 2.2.

NOTE: Please, remember that Mitsubishi Electric AG-150A requires a
software license, PC-Monitoring license (SW-Mon), that must be purchased
together with the AG-150A gateway.

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1.2 Functionality

Every one of the mentioned signals have to be associated to an KNX group address, with this,
all the system is seen as a one more KNX device, with the same configuration and functioning
characteristics.

IntesisBox KNX continuously polls (read) all the G50's configured signals and maintains the
updated status of all of them in its memory ready to be served when requested from KNX.

When a change of status is detected in a Mitsubishi Electric signal, a write telegram is sent to
the KNX bus, of the associated KNX Group.

When it is received a telegram from the KNX bus, of a KNX Group address associated to a
Mitsubishi Electric signal, a message is sent immediately to the corresponding G50 to perform
the corresponding action in the Mitsubishi Electric system.

In the continuous polling of the G50, if a non-response of the G50 is detected, the
corresponding virtual signal inside the gateway will be activated indicating communication
error with the G50. The same way, there is also a virtual signal per every City Multi group to
indicate communication error with the group, this signal will be normally activated if the group
is not configured inside the G50. Note that, although the internal units are not connected
physically in the City Multi system, the G50 responds as if they were.

EIB

KNX

EIB

G50

Ethernet

LinkBoxEIB

configuration

software

Only needed for configuration

G50

EIA232 /Ethernet

LAN

TCP/IP

XML

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1.3 Capacity of IntesisBox

Element

Max.

Notes

Num. of G50

2

Number of independent G50 interfaces

2 x G-50A / GB-50A / GB-50ADA / EB-50

2 x AG150 (without Expansion Controllers)

1 x AG150 (with 2 Expansion Controllers)

2 x AE200 (without Expansion Controllers)

1 x AE200 (with 1 Expansion Controller)

Num. of City Multi groups:

Num. of G50 x 50

100

Number of groups of AC indoor units
Num. of KNX Groups

5902

Total number of KNX Groups that can be used in
IntesisBox.

Num. of listening addresses

2000

Number of KNX groups that can be used as
listening addresses.

Num. of listening addresses
per KNX Group.

255

Number of listening addresses that can be
associated to an KNX group address.

There are various models of IntesisBox KNX – Mitsubishi Electric G50 with different capacity.
The limits showed above are for the model with maximum capacity. The two versions of
IntesisBox are:

• Version with capacity of one G50 and 15 City Multi groups.

Ref.: ME-AC-KNX-15

• Version with capacity of two G50s and 100 City Multi groups.

Ref.: ME-AC-KNX-100

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2. Interfaces

2.1 KNX TP-1 (EIB)

IntesisBox KNX - Mitsubishi Electric G50 supports the KNX TP-1 (EIB) physical layer, as
defined in the KNX standard. It behaves as one more device of the KNX system, with the
same configuration and functional characteristics as other KNX devices.

KNX TP-1 (EIB) bus provides a 30V DC current, which can even directly power certain low­consumption KNX devices. IntesisBox does not drain any significant current from the KNX bus

- it has a separate own power supply. Another important electrical aspect is that the KNX TP­1 (EIB) port of IntesisBox is optically isolated (~2500Vrms AC) from all its other ports
(EIA232, EIA485, Ethernet) and power supply.

At logical level, all KNX devices feature an interface of communication objects, by which their
functionality is abstracted. As a basic example, a KNX interface of an AC indoor unit would

typically consist of an interface of datapoints such as “On/Off”, “Setpoint temperature”,
“Operating mode”, etc.

Associations between communication objects from different KNX devices are done by means
of so-called group addresses.

KNX telegrams within a working KNX installation are always addressed to a certain KNX group
address. Typically, whenever a communication object on a KNX device changes its value, the
new value is updated to the bus, by sending a “write” telegram addressed to its associated
group address. The rest of KNX devices in the installation that have a communication object
associated to this group address will act accordingly on reception of the new value.

Other operations are possible. KNX devices can also decide to read the current value of the

communication objects, by sending a “read” telegram to a certain group address (previously

known to be associated to the targeted comm. object). This operation is performed by many
devices on bus start-up or recovery – in this way, the device gets the latest value of the group
addresses it has associated right from its start-up.

Each datapoint defined in IntesisBox KNX configuration needs to have at least a single KNX
group address associated with it. This group address will be used either for sending updates
to KNX of the datapoint value (that have been generated on the other G50 interface of the
IntesisBox), or receiving updates from KNX of the datapoint value (that will be propagated to
the G50 side in this case)

From the point of view of KNX functionality, each datapoint of IntesisBox can hold following
group address associations:

• A single KNX group address with which update/write telegrams will be sent, whenever

the datapoint changes (as a result of a change coming from the other interface of
IntesisBox, G50 in this case).

• One or more KNX group addresses from which this datapoint of IntesisBox will be

updated/written from the KNX installation (resulting in a change to the other side of
IntesisBox, G50 in this case).

• A single KNX group address from which IntesisBox will read the object value on KNX

bus recovery / IntesisBox start-up.

Behavior of IntesisBox’ datapoints regarding their associated group addresses is defined by
means of flags (R, W, T, U and U2), explained in section 5.1.2.

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Additional to the binding aspect commented above, it is also important to notice that each
KNX communication object has a defined EIS type. The EIS type of a communication object
defines the bit length and coding of the data it represents. Communication objects associated
by means of a group address need to match the same EIS type, in order to communicate
consistently.

So, at configuration time it is required that for each datapoint configured on IntesisBox an
EIS type is defined. Datapoints on IntesisBox KNX support the following EIS-types:

• EIS1 - Switching (1bit raw)

• EIS2 - Dimming (4bit raw)

• EIS5 – Value (16bit – floating type)

• EIS6 – Scaling (8bit – scaled 0%-100% in values 0-255)

• EIS7 – Drive Control (1bit raw)

• EIS8 – Priority (2bit raw)

• EIS9 – IEEE 754 float (32bit – floating type)

• EIS10 – 16bit Counter (16bit raw)

• EIS11 – 32bit Counter (32bit raw)

• EIS13 – ASCII char (8bit raw)

• EIS14 – 8bit Counter (8bit raw)

ETS software tools are not used to configure IntesisBox. Though, it’s typical that the choice
of which KNX group addresses to use is restricted or defined by an ETS-based project. If that’s
the case, the KNX installer/integrator needs to provide the set of group addresses prior to
doing the configuration of datapoints in LinkBoxEIB.

Also, a dummy ETS application is provided by Intesis Software (section 6), which can be
imported into ETS. This application is nor downloadable into IntesisBox KNX neither usable
for IntesisBox configuration. Rather, it poses as a means of having a device in the ETS project
representing the IntesisBox KNX and its own datapoints/communication objects, and to which
group addresses are associated.

2.2 Mitsubishi Electric G50

This gateway from Mitsubishi Electric offers the signals of the City Multi AC system through
XML protocol. Every G50 (G-50A, GB-50A, GB-50ADA, EB-50, AG-150A or AE200A) allows
access to the signals of up to 50 City Multi indoor units and 50 groups, no matter the number
of outdoor units installed. In the G50, the group is the control unit; every group can have
from 1 to 16 associated indoor units. This integration supervises and controls groups, not
indoor units, although if only one indoor unit is associated to every group then you can
supervise and control indoor units individually.

This G50 gateway is supplied by Mitsubishi Electric. The difference between the G-50A and
GB-50A/GB-50ADA is that the first incorporates display and keyboard and the second ones
just blind cover. The new AE-200A is also compatible with IntesisBox (with or without
Expansion Controllers). At integration level, all of them allow the same functionality. Contact
your nearest Mitsubishi Electric distributor for more details about G-50A, GB-50A, GB-50ADA,
EB-50, AG.150A and AE200A. In this document we will refer to this gateway models (G-

50A, GB-50A, GB-50ADA, EB-50, AG-150A and AE200A, without Expansion
Controllers) as just G50. An AG-150 with 2 EC would work as 2 G50. An AE200A with
1 EC shall work as 2 G50.

The following list shows the available signals to integrate per every group (of the 50 possible)
of the G50: