Niagara Workbench (Tridium/Honeywell) is a Java-based engineering tool that supports visual programming (wire sheet), BACnet configuration and deployment to JACE controllers for multi-protocol BMS projects.
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Niagara Workbench combines a drag-and-drop wire-sheet editor for graphical programming, an Object palette with BACnet, Modbus, KNX and OPC UA components, Histories for trend logging and reporting, visual Schedules with weekly views and exceptions, drivers that import GSD/GSDML and similar descriptors, and a web UI toolkit for deployable HMI views. It has become the standard engineering platform for modern commercial BMS projects in Europe and North America, with licence cost driven per JACE and per point and typical project totals in the 5-50 k euro range.
Keep a versioned backup of every Niagara station (.dist) plus the matching licence file off-site: a JACE hardware failure without these two artefacts can stop a building for days.
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