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NiagaraAX 3.1

Gil Rockwell

Tridium

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So, what’s new in NiagaraAX 3.1??

• “Provisioning” of JACEs by a new service on the AX Supervisor

• Security Enhancements for Security products• More charts and rollups available for chart builder• Charting improvements for HX• oBIX driver for AX• oBIX driver for r2• oBIX open source client toolkit• oBIX AX-r2 integration• Please go to hear more about oBIX in the Developer

Track at 2:00

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NiagaraAX 3.1 – Lonworks – Lon Enhancements

• Lon xml creation tool– Allows user to create Lon Xml files from Lonworks *.xif and

resource files– Can be organized in modules and imported using

BDynamicDevice/importXml– Add support for LonObjects

» Can represent Lon device as a collection of LonMark objects for easier device navigation

– Add support for default values in Lon Xml files– Performance enhancements and fixes

» Better management of on demand polling of network variables

» Faster building of manager views– These changes were incorporated into 3.0.100 or earlier.

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NiagaraAX 3.1 BACnet enhancements

– BACnet Enhancements• multithreaded polling with IP and Ethernet - improves

performance on routed BACnet installations• client support for loop object• support for receiving alarms generated by several

additional alarm algorithms• improvement to server side access to dramatically

improve performance• improvement to learn speed by improved object list

retrieval• numerous bug fixes that improve overall performance

– Most of this has been folded back into later 3.0 builds as bug fixes.

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NiagaraAX 3.1 JACE enhancements

– AX 3.1 will include support for NPM-2 w/ 128 MB (more objects, bigger databases)

– Upgrading JACEs to AX 3.1 will convert the file system to ETFS (“Embedded Transactional File system”). This new file system technology from QNX is specifically designed to be fault-tolerant. It will enable us to migrate to larger flash parts in the future. As a negative side effect, units upgraded to 3.1 will not be able be downgraded to 3.0

– Added DDNS support

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Provisioning ViewsStation Setup for provisioning…

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Provisioning views -• Station Proxy– platform views – similar to Admin tool

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Provisioning views -• Station Proxy commands

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Provisioning views -• Station Software file comparison check

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Provisioning views -• Provisioning job builder

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Provisioning views -• Provisioning job results

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Provisioning views -• Backup results

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What else??• New JACE-NXS• A fan-less Windows JACE replacement for the NX

– Celeron 400 MHz– 512 Mb SDRAM– 1 GB Compact Flash Memory – 1 RS-232 port– 1 RS-485 port– 2 Ethernet ports– 1 Lon FTT10A port– 4 USB ports– Embedded XP – Optional Hard disk– 0- 50 Deg C temperature rating (w/o Hard Drive)– 24 VDC power supply / UPS

• Coming this summer…

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More??

• JACE-201,JACE-403-AX and JACE-545-AX with expanded memory– With Niagara 3.1, the memory file system enhancement

enables new versions of the embedded JACEs– JACE-201 will have an option for 128 MB of RAM– JACE-403-AX and JACE-545 will have as an option:

• 256 MB RAM• 128 Mb Flash

– Each platform will have additional resources, but the CPU will become the overall resource factor.

– Availability late this summer

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One more….

• A “universal input voltage” power supply for the JACE-2– Din rail mounted the same as NPB-PWR– Input voltage is 90 – 263 volts 50 – 60 Hz.– Output is 15 volts DC, 30 Watts– Plugs onto the IO connector on JACE or IO-16 module.

• Availability to be late summer

• Questions??• Thank you for coming to the Niagara Summit!