Blog Archive

Voice user interface for building management systems › An example of Amazon Alexa integration with Tridium Niagara

GUI is outdated. Welcome to VUI Read More ›

Communication services › Polling and Grouping

Polling mechanism described here and here does not have throughput big enough to ensure high update rate for big BMS installations. The next enhancement we will introduce is point grouping. Read More ›

Communication services › Polling Going Deeper

The very basic polling service described in the first part has a limited throughput, so it is not well suited for real applications (except for very small ones) in its original form. Could it be enhanced? Of course. Read More ›

Communication services › Polling Basics

All BMS communication protocols (well, almost all) use polling to read point values. This is a simple service, consisting of request-response message pairs. Master device (for example, Tridium Jace) asks for a point – slave device responds with its value. Repeat again, and again, and again. Read More ›

Time synchronisation in Tridium Niagara systems › Part 2: Jace to BACnet devices

A video guide for time synchronisation between Jace and BACnet devices Read More ›

Time synchronisation in Tridium Niagara systems › Part 1: Supervisor to Jace via Network Time Protocol

A short video guide on how to set time synchronisation between Jace and Supervisor with Windows NTP server. Read More ›