Building Management System

Harness the Power of Connect Buildings
In Ways Never Before Imagined or Possible

Niagara stands as a highly prevalent operating system widely utilized in numerous connected buildings worldwide, boasting nearly half a million installations.

Its hallmark lies in its open architecture, granting users the freedom to shape their work methodologies, pursue preferred collaborations, and leverage cloud services and open protocols.

Niagara facilitates seamless device integration and data aggregation, enabling strategic decision-making to optimize performance and drive cost efficiencies across diverse domains, from buildings to data centers, manufacturing facilities, and smart cities.

The recent introduction of the WEBs-N4 software and the WEB-8000 series of controllers further augments the system’s potential, propelling it toward an echelon of operational excellence.

N4 Performance

The WEBs-N4 software platform is a game-changer, building on the success of the Niagara Framework® with fresh and thrilling enhancements. It’s user-friendly, ditching the need for tricky browser plug-ins, and it runs faster than ever before. Now, you can get your hands on all the important data, analyze it, and take action right away. This cutting-edge software is fully open and embraces the power of the Internet of Things. It’s packed with features like advanced visualization, improved search capabilities, top-notch security, and easy navigation tools. Get ready to unlock the full potential of your business with WEBs-N4!

Faster and More Powerful

In the latest version of WEBs-N4, developers will find a significant improvement in documentation and a comprehensive open API library. They can leverage BajaScript 2.0, semantic data modeling through tags, and other pre-built tools to accelerate and support their development process. With these enhancements, specialized training in the Niagara user interface is no longer necessary. Anyone familiar with open Web development can now create a customized user interface in Niagara. Moreover, the new features and public APIs in WEBs-N4 make it simpler to extend, develop, and build upon the framework, giving developers more flexibility and efficiency in their work.

Powerful Security

WEBs-N4 prioritizes security for the Internet of Things with a “defense-in-depth” approach. It builds on the strong security foundation of previous Niagara versions, ensuring that security is enabled right from the start. Users are required to choose robust credentials for authentication, and both data in motion and sensitive data at rest are protected through encryption. By using Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), configuring user permissions becomes effortless and reduces the risk of mistakes. WEBs-N4 seamlessly integrates with existing enterprise identity and access management systems, like LDAP and Kerberos. Additionally, all user actions and security-related events are meticulously logged in Niagara’s audit log, providing traceability for added peace of mind. With these comprehensive security features, WEBs-N4 ensures the safety and integrity of your valuable data and systems.

An All-New User Interface

WEBs-N4 features a bold and intuitive new interface. Modern and easy to use, the platform utilizes HTML5 to provide an array of rich features. Our powerful new UI framework makes the user experience simpler and more robust, giving users maximum control of their data and decisions. The optimized workflow allows users to find and visualize data points quickly based on a powerful tagging system. New features include a built-in search function, customizable charting and visualization, role-based security, real-time troubleshooting and rapid navigation. WEBs-N4’s use of HTML5 provides a user interface that makes it easier for systems integrators to create and maintain.

More Data At Your Fingertips

Integrators can provide an interface that empowers users to do more on their own. Because devices, systems and data points can be tagged in WEBs-N4, users can easily conduct a station-wide search of the most important elements in their operation. This one-tool solution utilizes tag hierarchies to automatically integrate all data in a navigation tree. Using a standardized dictionary of tagged elements, users choose which points to monitor directly. Users can utilize the standardized dictionary to drive consistency in their building automation systems. With a simple point-and-click or drag-and-drop, users can create customized charts, allowing them to instantly find and display critical information from their desktop, tablet or mobile device. Systems integrators no longer necessarily need to re-engineer new dashboards each time a customer requirement changes. Building real-time dashboards is straightforward, allows for immediate troubleshooting and quickly displays data with attractive visualizations.

Easier Integration

WEBs-N4’s new templating feature enables tags to be applied to devices quickly, and allows applications to be prebuilt against a set of standardized templates which then can be quicklycreated and reused. In other words, once a template is made, it can be redeployed as often as needed in other instances. The result is not only a more functional design for users but also reduced integration time across the board.

A Modular Approach for Global Design

Introducing an all-new hardware platform optimized for WEBs-N4: the WEB-8000 series of controllers. This “next-generation” controller features a new global design that functions with legacy systems and has the ability to scale for future needs.

Efficient Global Design

The new, modular design of the WEB8000 controllers makes them easy to install, integrate and deploy. Tool-less installation with expansion capability reduces installation complexity and improves flexibility. Systems integrators can focus on engineering solutions, not assembling components. And their lives will be simplified with a global power supply and improved access to standard enclosures.

Wireless Capability

Standard Wi-Fi offers enhanced wireless capability when interfacing with the next generation of wireless sensors and devices. WEB-8000 controllers also are configurable as an access point so that mobile phones and tablets can display information and advanced graphics. Expansion also is available when interfacing with other wireless fieldbuses seen in connected buildings.

Optimized For Niagara 4

WEB-8000 controllers leverage the exciting new features of WEBs-N4. It adds to the enhanced user experience, maximizing WEBs-N4’s key advantages: pure Web interface based on HTML5 with HTML5 views, charting and data visualization, a common design language, better reporting, robust security and improved device management.

Seamless Conversion

WEBs-AX: WEBs-N4 and the new WEB-8000 series controllers have been engineered to be easy to add to, or upgrade from, your current WEBs-based systems.

System Capability

The native Niagara Fox protocol will work between the WEBs-AX and WEBs-N4 software systems, and the WEBs-N4 software will wotk with any currently available WEBs hardware. If you want to make the conversion to the most up-to-date products, a station conversion tool id available that will adapt WEBs-AX stations to WEBs-N4 stations. Converted station will require 3rd-party vendors to provide updated modules for WEBs-N4 versions of their content. However, most modules will require only minor refactoring for developers to make the conversion. We are dedicated to making the conversion between systems as seamless as possible.