Tridium Releases NiagaraAX 3.5

Leading automation and device-to-enterprise integration software continues to expand and add new usability features and scalability enhancements. The latest version, Release 3.5, includes new productivity and tools features, host level features, station features and advanced SI/Developer functionality.

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA- February 11, 2010--Tridium today announced the availability of NiagaraAX 3.5, the latest release of the company's leading open automation and device-to-enterprise integration software platform. NiagaraAX 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.

NiagaraAX 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 AX 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.

The Niagara Framework® is a software platform that integrates diverse systems and devices regardless of manufacturer, or communication protocol into a unified platform that can be easily managed and controlled in real time over the Internet using a standard web browser. By integrating today's diverse building systems such as environmental controls, security, lighting, energy, video, fire and life safety, Niagara is creating better buildings---ones that are smarter, use less energy, are more efficient, have lower operating costs, are safer and contribute to a sustainable environment.

The Sedona Framework™ is the industry's first, open source development framework that provides a complete software platform for developing, deploying, integrating, and managing pervasive device applications at the lowest level. It brings the power of programmable control and the Internet down to extremely inexpensive devices. The Sedona Framework distributes decision making control and manageability to any device and brings intelligence and connectivity to the network edge and back.

The company is an independent business entity of Honeywell International Inc.

Additional information about Tridium is available at www.tridium.com. 

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