About the Framework
Software frameworks enable businesses to efficiently build their product offerings. The patented Niagara Framework is targeted at solving the challenges associated with managing diverse smart devices, unifying their data, and connecting them to enterprise applications. Examples of smart devices include: monitoring and control systems, sensors, metering systems, and embedded controls on packaged equipment systems.
framework: A structural foundation composed of interconnected parts; in software, a reusable design structure to assist in application development.
Niagara Framework: A universal software infrastructure that empowers companies to create custom, web-enabled applications for accessing, automating, and controlling smart devices in real time over the Internet.
Using Niagara 4, integrators and developers can build device-to-enterprise solutions and Internet-enabled control and monitoring products.
The framework:
Integrates diverse systems and devices (regardless of manufacturer or communication protocol) into a unified platform that can be easily managed in real time over the Internet (or intranet) using a late version HTML5-capable web browser.
Supports the use of tags that can be queried, thus providing a foundation for many of the new features (search, tagging, relations, templates, hierarchies).
Includes a cutting-edge tool set that enables non-programmers to build rich applications in a drag-and-drop environment.
Most features are designed for dual use (for programmers as well as non-programmers). These features are built around a set of Java APIs to be accessed by developers writing Java code. At the same time, most features are also designed to be used through high level graphical programming and configuration tools. This vastly increases the number of users capable of building applications on the Niagara platform.
Niagara is fully scalable, meaning that it can be run on platforms spanning the range from small, embedded devices to enterprise class servers. It is successfully applied globally in energy-services, building-automation, industrial-automation and M2M applications.