Cimetrics Inc.announced the formation of a technology and marketing alliance withLantronix, Inc.,a leader in device networking and data center management, to bring new IP and Web Services solutions to the building automation market by utilizing the Lantronix XPort™ module. Cimetrics will implement the XPort module in their Native IP and Eplus product lines, and will be selling a BACnet enabled XPort module for OEMs. The Lantronix XPort is a compact embedded device server that offers a highly integrated Ethernet hardware solution which enables Cimetrics BACstac™ protocol stack. This module conforms to Web Services standards (XML/SOAP) used by almost all enterprise software vendors. Setup is done using a browser setup screen so that control and monitoring of BACnet devices can be done without needing to know the BACnet protocol.