A NiagaraAX station running the Lonworks driver can provide “tunneling” access to its connected Lonworks devices. This allows you to use a vendor’s Windows LON-based application (via the Lon tunnel client) to perform device-specific operations. Examples include application downloads or other device configuration.

The tunneling client is separate from NiagaraAX Workbench—meaning that you can install it on various PCs, as needed. The key advantage is that Lon tunneling requires only a standard IP connection (to the station), yet provides access as if the client PC was attached to the target Lonworks network via a physical FTT-10 adapter.

No special licensing is required to use tunneling features in NiagaraAX.

The following sections provide more details: