The Niagara Framework addresses the challenges of automation, control and device to enterprise connectivity of real time systems. NiagaraAX, and its derivative products, offer compelling value to both end users and partners. For OEM and reseller partners, the Niagara Framework solves several key challenges present in all control-related industries:
High development costs associated with the foundation or infrastructure layer of software that communicates with devices and manipulates the data from them.
The need to transform information from real-time control processes into a homogeneous structure enabling advanced product and service applications.
Integration of legacy systems to enable companies to easily migrate their existing customers to new technologies and product offerings.
Partners who adopt the Niagara Framework as their infrastructure eliminate substantial engineering effort and are able to focus on their core competencies of application development and marketing. These companies gain competitive advantage in their markets from lower development costs and quicker time-to-market for their specific products, applications and value-add services.
End users of Niagara benefit from:
Being able to preserve existing investments in control and monitoring devices as they move to new, standards-based technologies.
Being able to access and control all of their diverse systems through a standard web browser.
Combining information from different systems to support better overall management of their enterprise assets.
Being able to specify interoperable systems and applications from multiple vendors, thereby reducing the potential for vendor lock-in.
Niagara is designed to address the following specific technical challenges:
Platform independence - NiagaraAX works with a wide variety of operating systems and hardware platforms.Unification of diverse systems - NiagaraAX integrates heterogeneous systems, protocols, and fieldbuses into normalized components.Distributed architecture - NiagaraAX supports a highly distributed architecture. It successfully combines Internet/IT technology with the services necessary to implement real-time, peer-to-peer automation applications.
Programming for non-programmers - NiagaraAX provides an environment and comprehensive toolset to enable domain experts to create sophisticated applications without writing code.
Extensibility - NiagaraAX provides an extensible component model and rich library of open APIs to enable programmers to extend and enhance the Framework and build their own unique applications and products
Support for embedded systems - NiagaraAX can be embedded in small low cost devices
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