Tutorial Day 2 Conclusion

Congratulations! You now have a Niagara AX driver with a network component. You also have a device component that pings and has a device extension component. This allows you to create any driver control point components that you desire and use them to introduce data values from your field-device to the rest of the Niagara AX framework. With these data values, you may now take advantage of all that Niagara AX has to offer, such as easy web page creation, alarming, and data logging.

After today's lesson, you should have a general idea about how to virtually represent and access the data points in your field-device within the Niagara AX framework. In tomorrow's lesson, we will show you how to add support to your driver to allow you to change data values that are in your field-device from the Niagara AX framework. To do this, you will add write functionality to your driver's control points. That will allow you to control and schedule your data values from Niagara AX.