Glossary

engineering workstation An installation of Niagara on a PC, which is used to commission controller hardware and perform application engineering on both offline and online stations. In some cases the this workstation may also be licensed to run a station to facilitate application development and testing.
NTP Network Time Protocol. This protocol is used by computers and devices to synchronize clocks over the Internet.
UTC Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the recognized atomic-clock standard of reference time, largely replacing GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) as the time to reference. Time zones are commonly expressed as negative or positive offsets from UTC time.