Niagara 3.7 New Feature Review

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1 Niagara 3.7 New Feature Review September, 2012 Tridium 2012

2 Agenda Security Crypto Updates Certificate Management Scalability Virtuals to Virtuals General Enhancements Synthetic Types Event Service Type Subscription Hardware Scan Service User Interface Updated Graphics Library Theming History Reporting Enhancements Lexicon Overhaul Niagara Web Development Feature Summary New Niagara Web Platform Mobile Application Support Mobile App Reference Designs Features that benefit the System Integrator Features that benefit Developers/OEMs

3 Security Crypto Updates Certificate Management

4 Crypto Feature Updates Who? System Integrators Features SSLv3/TLSv1 for: o Workbench to station support* o Browser Workbench to station support (wbapplet)* o Station to station support* Password Management o Expiration o History Java-based Niagara Daemon* *not available on JACE 2 or JACE 403/545

5 Certificate Management Who? System Integrators Features Tool for managing 3rd party and self-signed certificates Generation of standard certificate requests Installation and management of certificates Management of trusted certificate authorities Certificates support PKI-based encryption for features like the web server, , SSL connections, and HTTPS, and any other future features requiring PKI-based encryption

6 Certificate Management

7 Certificate Management

8 Scalability Virtuals to Virtuals

9 Virtuals to Virtuals How do Virtuals work? Supervisor graphics use JACE point data Supervisor The point data might be used to show an outside air temperature or a set point Virtual Points are created on the fly (only when the point is viewed) JACE If the point is no longer being viewed, it s cleaned up. This saves memory and greatly reduces the size of a Supervisor

10 Virtuals to Virtuals Who? System Integrators Developers Features In a tiered Niagara system, allows integrators to reach data points (components) at any level in the system without having to map permanent components Previously Niagara Virtuals were only useful for reaching components 1 tier below Allows for mapping Niagara Virtuals to Niagara Virtuals or other types of Virtuals, such as BACnet Virtuals This is an important basis for Enterprise Architecture development (Niagara Supervisor)

11 Virtuals to Virtuals Supervisor BACnet JACE The BACnet driver also supports Virtuals In 3.7, graphics can be created using Niagara Virtuals that map to BACnet Virtuals on a JACE This makes the system more flexible and more memory efficient

12 Virtuals to Virtuals Niagara Virtuals can also map to other Niagara Virtuals Therefore, using Niagara Virtuals, an N-tiered Niagara architecture can be created, improving Scalability Supervisor Supervisor Supervisor JACE JACE JACE JACE

13 General Enhancements Synthetic Types Event Service Type Subscription Hardware Scan Service

14 Synthetic Types Who? System Integrators Developers Features A mechanism for defining modules and types without any Java source code Synthetic types can be used to bind a Px view to a certain type (this was not possible previously) Developer APIs allow modules and types to be generated and loaded at runtime

15 Synthetic Types

16 Event Service Who? Developers Features Many applications have a need to generate and route events through the system (similar to alarms). However, the events of interest may be application specific. This feature provides the plumbing to enable applications to easily generate, receive, and route events.

17 Event Service

18 Type Subscription Who? Developers Features Many applications have a need to listen for component events on any instance of a particular type that lives in the station This includes events like property changes, components being added or removed, or flags being changed Prior to this enhancement, you could only subscribe for events on a per-component basis, but now you can easily listen for events to multiple components that share a common type

19 Hardware Scan Service Who? System Integrators Developers Features This service can be used to programmatically identify the platform s hardware at runtime The view associated with this service is very useful to integrators at configuration time

20 Hardware Scan Service Property sheet view

21 Hardware Scan Service Basic View

22 Hardware Scan Service Option Cards Installed

23 Hardware Scan Service Option Cards installed

24 User Interface Updated Graphics Library Theming History Reporting Enhancements Lexicon Overhaul

25 Updated Graphics Library Who? System Integrators Features Over D and Photo-realistic BAS images to choose from Station only stores graphics that are used in Views to optimize memory usage

26 Updated Graphics Library Old vs. New

27 Theming Who? Systems Integrators OEMs / Developers Features Themes allow customization the color scheme, fonts, and icons according to SI preference via Niagara Style Sheet (NSS) files OEMs can create themes to better match corporate branding standards

28 Theming

29 History Reporting Enhancements Who? Systems Integrators Developers Features Aggregating several histories into a single time series Joining multiple histories by timestamp Common transforms for time series data scaling, quantization, and rollups Includes an API for creating custom transforms

30 History Reporting Enhancements

31 History Reporting Enhancements

32 Lexicon Overhaul Who? OEMs / Developers Features Easier branding using lexicons Deploys lexicons in modules (including the Tridium default lexicons) that can be versioned Adds descriptive information to the module manifest schema Enhances the lexicon editor tool to improve lexicon management/installation

33 Lexicon Overhaul

34 Open Web Development Features for: System Integrators Developers New Niagara Web Platform Industry Trends Server Side Client Side

35 Niagara Web Development v3.6 (and earlier) For non-programmers Nav Files Px Views Web Workbench Hx/Px For Programmers Workbench Plugin API Hx API Java Servlet API

36 Industry Trends Wide adoption of mobile devices Trend away from plug-in technology in web browsers Industry leaders focusing on HTML5 Google Microsoft Apple Adobe

37 Niagara Web Development v3.7+ Reach the world of web developers Decrease dependence on Java user interface technology Avoid mobile platform wars

38 Server-Side Development Integration of an industry standard Java templating engine: Apache Velocity Server side template engine for generating dynamic web content with Niagara data

39 Client-Side Development Full-featured JavaScript API for accessing Niagara from a web client Enables web developers to make their own technology choices Simplifies integration of 3 rd party web libraries For Niagara developers, similar to Niagara Java client API JavaScript

40 Mobile Application Support Mobile App Reference Designs End User Apps System Integrator Apps Mobile Px Viewer

41 Mobile Application Support Niagara mobile apps use the same software stack as desktop web apps Open web standards (HTML, CSS, jquery, etc.) Apache Velocity BajaScript Niagara provides a small set of standard apps Alarm management Scheduling History Viewer Property Sheet Mobile Px Viewer

42 Mobile Application Support End User Apps

43 Mobile Application Support Mobile Px Viewer