- February 11, 2010
- Tridium
February 11, 2010--Tridium announced Niagara 3.5, the latest release of the company's open automation and device-to-enterprise integration software platform. Niagara integrates diverse systems and devices regardless of manufacturer, or communication protocol into a unified platform that is easily managed and controlled in real time over the Internet. It empowers manufacturers to develop intelligent equipment systems and smart devices that enable collaboration and communication between the enterprise and edge assets. Niagara 3.5 includes many new usability and scalability functions such as Platform Tunneling and Program Module Builder Support, Floating License Repository, Writable Niagara Virtual Components, On-call Alarm Service, Station-based discovery and more.
Platform Tunneling - This feature enables the Niagara platform tools to be connected to a JACE through another Niagara station. This is useful in network topologies where only the supervisor in a system has a public IP address. Program Module Builder - Allows users that are accustomed to creating Niagara program objects to build their program objects into a standard Niagara module that can be versioned and deployed using the standard Niagara software management tools. Floating License Repository - This permits Niagara installations to retrieve a license from the repository at startup rather requiring a license to be permanently installed and allows multiple Niagara runtimes to share a pool of licenses by limiting the number of licenses in concurrent use. Writable Niagara Virtual Components - Niagara Virtual Components were first introduced in Release 3.4 but only supported read-only operation. In 3.5, Niagara Virtual Components are now commandable and can be used in graphics. On-call Alarm Service - The On-call Alarm Service is an extension to Niagara alarm routing which makes it much easier to route alarms to groups of people. It supports time of day scheduling for routing to different groups of people and alarm escalation within a group of people. Supervisor auto-configuration "Export Tags" - Allows certain elements within a station to be tagged as exports. When a station is added to a supervisor, an import "join" process can be initiated which discovers all of the exports in a remote station and automatically maps them into the supervisor. Station elements that can be exported include points, histories, schedules, graphics, and files. This allows an integrator to avoid the time consuming manual process of discovering data in a JACE and mapping it into a supervisor. "We continue to see great momentum for the Niagara Framework in multiple industries and in many applications. Niagara is a fantastic platform for developers, OEMs, integrators and end users that enable them to create numerous solutions and solve a wide range of connectivity, integration and interoperability challenges. With these new additions in Release 3.5, users can continue to put their products and solutions into production and into the market easily and faster," said Marc Petock, vice president global marketing and communications at Tridium. About Tridium Inc. Tridium is the global leader in open platforms, application software frameworks, automation infrastructure technology, energy management and device-to-enterprise integration solutions. Our technologies extend connectivity, integration and interoperability to the millions of devices deployed in the market today and empowers manufacturers to develop intelligent equipment systems and smart devices that enable collaboration and communication between the enterprise and edge assets.
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