Customising Niagara. Andrew Jackson. Technical Director

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2 Customising Niagara Andrew Jackson Technical Director

3 Agenda Experience Cycle of an OEM Rebranding Framework Enhancements Connectivity Enhancements User Interface Enhancements

4 Experience Cycle of an OEM Learning Niagara

5 What is there to learn? Start with the Basics Attend Niagara Tridium Certification Program course Learn the fundamentals Component model Drivers and data normalisation Control and monitoring component libraries Visualisation

6 Becoming Advanced Learn software JAVA (for components) HTML5/CSS and JavaScript (for web page visualisation) Learn to customise Attend Niagara Developer course Or employ someone who already has the skill (and experience) We have a community in place Professional Services

7 Skill Pyramid SKILL EXPERIENCE JAVA Customisation Open Standard Customisation Simple Customisation Gain Experience Custom Drivers Custom Visualisation Widgets Custom Workbench Profiles and Appliances HTML and JavaScript External code or UI linked with obix Program Objects Package Libraries Simple Drivers Build Configured Views Build Application Libraries Build Graphical Libraries Learn the Basics

8 Customising Niagara for OEMs Rebranding

9 Make it your way Rebranding software can be fairly basic Change the skin Make Workbench your colour Change the icon Change the splash screens Install in your directory Add your own files

10 Change from Standard

11 To something else!

12 Customising the software install Create your own graphic library Create standard widgets configured with your images Wrap into a module Get versioning, provisioning for free Add own documentation files Customise the software collection Create your own collections of control components Can make templates for your own connected devices

13 Rebranding JACEs JACE 3 and 6 Ranges OEMs can customise cover label JACE 8000 OEMs can use own branding clip

14 Skills Used SKILL EXPERIENCE JAVA Customisation Open Standard Customisation Simple Customisation Gain Experience Custom Drivers Custom Visualisation Widgets Custom Workbench Profiles and Appliances HTML and JavaScript External code or UI linked with obix Program Objects Package Libraries Simple Drivers Build Configured Views Build Application Libraries Build Graphical Libraries Learn the Basics

15 Customising Niagara Framework Enhancements

16 Using JAVA skills Walk before you can run Experiment with Program Component Great for prototyping and little components (glue)

17 Developer Level JAVA Attend Developer Training Niagara Experience JAVA Development Experience Code control components directly in JAVA Provisioned by module Fully compiled like standard Niagara component libraries Versioned Great for complex algorithms Great for OEM specific field devices

18 Control Components Create your own library

19 Don t forget Framework has many rich features built in Learn what they are (training) Many parts of Niagara are extensible Can add buttons to many manager views

20 Customising Connectivity Creating Drivers

21 Driver Framework Built-in standard manager views Network devices Points Alarm, history and schedules if protocol supports Concentrate on coding for the protocol Use core features provided by the Framework Heavy lifting has been done for you Can use Niagara Central licensing model most developers do

22 Connect to Anything

23 User Interface Enhancements Change What You See

24 User Interface Enhancements Wide choice of technologies Easily bolt on Open Web material Can leverage Niagara data content Code in JAVA for traditional Workbench views and Browser widgets Code in HTML5/JavaScript for Browser without plugins

25 JAVA Widgets

26 Dashboard Widgets

27 Dashboards

28 Appliances

29 JavaScript support for HTML Has been an option for some time Place obix server in station Pages in HTML Update data with JavaScript broker to handle obix data requests Examples with charting libraries interfaced by XML based interface BajaScript introduced in AX 3.7 Data connection behind Mobile Apps Mobile Apps enhanced in AX 3.8 and now BajaScript 2 in Niagara 4 Velocity is an alternative for report pages

30 HTML5 Established now as THE standard Wide range of support across all major platforms Preferred option from Niagara 4 Easy to build with open web technology

31 HTML5 UI

32 Mobile

33 Skill Pyramid SKILL EXPERIENCE JAVA Customisation Open Standard Customisation Simple Customisation Gain Experience Custom Drivers Custom Visualisation Widgets Custom Workbench Profiles and Appliances HTML and JavaScript External code or UI linked with obix Program Objects Package Libraries Simple Drivers Build Configured Views Build Application Libraries Build Graphical Libraries Learn the Basics

34 Thank You Thanks to our partners for their examples CentraLine Forest Rock OpenEnergi PI-Systems QuickLink SenseOne Tyrrell Webeasy

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