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We are thrilled to announce the first Release Candidate of the Active-Framework! 

Active represents the culmination of three years of research and hard work to build a powerful appliance Framework. Active and Niagara make now a perfect combination to standardize engineering and commissioning.

From copy-paste to appliances

Niagara is made of Lego blocks you put together to create an application (a station). It implies heavy labour made of lot of copy-pastes of pseudo-models. But everyone knows how much time is lost on modifications, how mistakes can be easily propagated and really hard to track and how different stations are between SI

An appliance is a reusable application, easily configurable and ready to be deployed and scaled. You replace manual integration by the creation of small templates associated to a data model so an engine can automate most of the tasks: creating logic, views, adding widgets, set up user rights etc. The result is bluffing. You're able to save hundred of hours of manual labour by a couple of hours of modelization, all code free just powered by simple Niagara blocks.

The 3 layers of the cake 

Data modeling is the foundations of a good appliance. We built up a unified representation of the building environment (its geography, its subsystems, its tenants...) so it's easy to structure your collected devices and points. 

Active is shipped with a revolutionary engine that does the work for you based on the structured data. So you can build logic, views at no cost. Even more, instead of changing dozens of deployed features, 

And since a building is not anymore a pile of bricks but a live place with people seeking for more and more services, we need to get out the data from the BAS to liberate their potential and bring useful services to end users. A full set of connectors to the most known platforms&databases are being released: Elasticsearch, IoTHub, MongoDb, Firestore... A Rest API is also now available, so a third party app can easily interact with the station.

UI matters

Improving Niagara UI has always been a priority to us with enhanced widgets. A good looking application is always easier to sell no matter the beautiful engineering behind it. So we've worked hard to propose you a complete new experience for designing interfaces. Meet the FlexView: a drag&drop interface made of pages and cards. All html5, you use the same interface to create and to visualize so forget about UI differences between the Workbench and the Browser. You will be able to make dynamic and powerful views. A dozen of cards are already available (charts, tables, information...), many more will follow.

 Gif FlexView

Blank page syndrome?

Let's be honest, no matter the technology, it's always hard to start from a blank page. We wanted to give you the opportunity to benefit from existing stations depending on your needs. So we created boiler plates Niagara stations ready to use. A station dedicated to a traditional BAS is available and includes many awesome features (navigations, alarm and user rights by subsystems, automated detailed views on points and devices etc.)

Gif station demo

A specific station for data centers (DCIM) is on its way as well as a monitoring application with easy meters commissioning.

 

 

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