April 15-17, 2024
SEE THE NIAGARA COMMUNITY IN ACTION
What did you miss at the Niagara Summit? A powerful, hands-on Developer Bootcamp. Amazing keynotes from industry leaders and experts. Relevant and helpful brainstorming sessions. Valuable networking opportunities. Thoughtful discussions about next-generation solutions for automation infrastructure technology. And, of course the sights and sounds of Charlotte!
AGENDA OVERVIEW
MONDAY, APRIL 4
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Trade Show Setup, Charlotte Convention Center
DEVELOPER DAY AGENDA
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Welcome & Introduction to Building On Top of Niagara Framework
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
- PRESENTER: Kevin Smith, Director, Chief Product Officer, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Chief Product Officer, Kevin Smith introduces the Tridium Development Team and talks about the benefits of building on top of the Niagara Framework.
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | Niagara Development with Gradle
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
- PRESENTER: Garrett Ward, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Stay up to date with the latest build toolchain changes. Learn about what’s coming soon in Niagara that will make setting up your build environment easier.
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | Adding New Provisioning Steps
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
- PRESENTER: Tim Urenda, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Working with a network of Niagara devices? Learn how to create your own provisioning job to make it easy to push out changes across a network of devices.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Development with HTTP Client Driver
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
- PRESENTERS: Nick Dodd & Jason Woollard, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Easily call REST APIs from Niagara.
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Security Dashboard API
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
- PRESENTER: Melanie Coggan, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Integrate your application into Niagara’s Security Dashboard.
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Building a Niagara Archive History Provider
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
- PRESENTER: Scott Hoye, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Use your own data source with Niagara’s Archive History Provider API.
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Security Best Practices
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
- PRESENTER: Bill Smith, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Secure coding best practices, signing program objects, and what’s coming next.
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | Break
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
3:15 PM - 3:40 PM | Debugging Tools with Niagara UI
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
- PRESENTER: Vikram Nagulan, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: WebDev, Debugging, and Troubleshooting Niagara Web UIs.
3:40 PM - 3:55 PM | Internationalization (i18n)
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
- PRESENTER: Vikram Nagulan, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Internationalization in Niagara; how to localize your code for use across the globe.
3:55 PM - 4:30 PM | Niagara UI/Mobile with UX Media
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
- PRESENTER: Logan Byam, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Make writing bajaux widgets easier with JSX. Learn how this can be used to quickly create new widgets for a UxMedia Px page.
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM | Marketplace & Developer Program Updates
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
- PRESENTERS: Bob Neubaum & Pavlo Pazelskyi, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Updates to the Developer program and a sneak peak at the new Niagara Marketplace.
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM | Thank You & Wrap Up
- LOCATION: Westin, Providence Ballroom
- PRESENTER: Ian Adamson, Tridium
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Welcome Reception (sponsored by AWS), Westin, Grand Ballroom
TUESDAY, APRIL 5
GENERAL SESSION
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast & Customer Story Showcase
- LOCATION: Westin, Grand Ballroom
- DESCRIPTION: During breakfast, there will also be a Customer Story Showcase where you will find highlights about a curated set of Niagara deployments. In many cases, the Niagara Partners involved will be available to discuss their customer stories in depth. Look for these customer stories throughout the Grand Ballroom.
8:30 AM - 8:50 AM | Welcome to Niagara Summit
- LOCATION: Westin, Grand Ballroom
- PRESENTERS: Victor Abelairas, GM, Tridium
8:50 AM - 9:45 AM | Keynote and Niagara Roadmap
- LOCATION: Westin, Grand Ballroom
- PRESENTERS: Kevin Smith, Chief Product Officer, Tridium and Stephen Holicky, Sr. Product Manager, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: The keynote session will provide insight into the Tridium vision, key priorities of the direction of our company, and will showcase recent developments and soon-to-be-released features of our products.
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM | Niagara Customer Panel
- LOCATION: Westin, Grand Ballroom
- MODERATOR: Curt Bramel, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Successful Niagara deployments for centralized energy management&monitoring across big portfolios of small retail buildings in banking and other sectors where cyber defense is imperative.
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Will Environmental/Social Governance (ESG) Lead to One Enterprise System of Record
- LOCATION: Westin, Grand Ballroom
- MODERATOR: Usman Shuja, Honeywell
- DESCRIPTION: Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) is today’s acronym for the heightened imperative imposed on enterprises to report on their progress toward safety and regulatory goals. Leaders are looking for easy, customizable and frictionless solutions to help them meet ESG challenges. This panel will discuss various visions of an enterprise system-of-record that enables real-time operational data to feed enterprise business apps such that C-suite decision-makers have at-their-fingertips access to Healthy Building status, Energy Efficiency/Carbon Footprint data and more.
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | What's to Come at NS2022
- LOCATION: Westin, Grand Ballroom
- MODERATOR: Victor Abelairas, Tridium
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Lunch & Tradeshow - Richardson Ballroom, Charlotte Convention Center
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
BUSINESS TRACK
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Specifying Intelligent Buildings
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219AB
- MODERATOR: Marcello Luisi, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Consulting Engineers are seeing more complex integration requirements and applications on enterprise projects. Learn the issues, requirements and best practices of specifying not only base integration but cyber security, network design, analytics, user Interface and optimization.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Working with Federal Government & US DoD Customers. New Security requirements and qualifications for the SI community
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E218
- MODERATOR: David Hornosky, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: The DOD and GSA continue to enhance their security and operational requirements. These include the DOD Risk Management Framework and the GSA's 802.1x regulations. This session will give you an overview of latest government security requirements as well as how SIs are working successfully with government on upgrades and new deployments.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Mega Customers, Mega Projects, Mega Solutions
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E217
- MODERATOR: Vincent Fonti, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Customers with large real estate porfoloios have embraced the value of smart integrated facilities. One was a worldwide delivery of multiple sites while the other was in the heart of New York City's Hudson Yards project, another in the Middle East. See how these 3 massive projects were successfully planned, managed, and executed.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Architect and maintain a Cyber-Secure BAS OT Framework
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E218
- MODERATOR: Michael Dennehy, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: This session will provide a deep dive on the topic including system Hardening, Cyber Defense, tools and procedures with a seasoned group of cyber professionals.
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Mega HQ and Smart City Projects - Beyond traditional, and driving a safe, efficient and sustainable future
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E217
- MODERATOR: Paul Price, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Owners and Smart Building Consultants are pushing the boundry on what is possible to integrate in a campus and smart city. There must be true value derived from these mega integrations. Increased safety, lower costs of operations and a smaller carbon footprint. Both Netix and Honeywell have made this happen. Here the details and journey they embarked on to meet these goals.
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Hiring, retaining, and training Superior talent
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E218
- MODERATOR: Michael Stabile, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: The controls community has a shortage of talent, and is facing an oncoming surge of retirements. Additionally, the technology in our business has rapidly advanced to require more “IT-like” skills of our techs, so we desperately needs to recruit, train, and retain top talent. This panel will share their thoughts on identifying, cultivating and maintaining a widely talented workforce in the face of a competitive marketplace for workers. Our future workforce will come as much from programming backgrounds as mechanical and electrical – and you will hear how to attract and assess candidates who are not “the usual suspects” to power the future of your organization.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Insights, Trends, Perspectives, from Industry Influencers
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E217
- MODERATOR: Marc Petock,Lynxspring
- DESCRIPTION: Subjects included COVID - what lessons have we learned, EXPECTATIONS -what are the expectations of owners and operators today, CYBERSECURITY - who is responsible, is the industry taking it seriously yet, is it part of the daily discussions related to managing and operating facilities and buildings, CONVERGENCE - the convergence of traditional building operations with the new workplace, DIGITAL TWINS - is it a technology, is it a practice, how does fit within the built environment, ESG - what factors are going to have the most significant long-term impact to ensure success, RESPONSIBILITY - who is responsible for delivering the changing office environment around health - owners or tenants, EV CHARGING STATIONS - should they be included as part of the building’s operating system, and should they be the responsibility of facility management and operations, and TECHNOLOGY OR BUSINESS - are we an industry driven by the technology side or the business side.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | The Niagara Journey - A glimpse into the Niagara roadmap for continued customer value and insight
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219AB
- MODERATOR: Stephen Holicky, Sr. Product Manager, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Your application engineers know the technical details, but do you understand the value propositions of all the new features of Niagara 4.11 and 4.12 and beyond. This session will provide you with the unique propositions of new Niagara technologies including JACE 9000, Niagara Data Services, Cloud based engineering and more. See the new roadmap for Edge to Cloud Solutions.
TECH TRENDS TRACK
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Data Infrastructure Decisions: Tagging & Twinning
- TRACK: TECH TRENDS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E217
- MODERATOR: Rob Murchison, Intelligent Buildings
- DESCRIPTION: New announcements about digital twin services keep coming, and 'ontology' is not just a 'nerd word' anymore. Yet, talk about both seems to be running far ahead of the reality. This session is going to put the twinning and tagging topics together in a discussion about data infrastructure decision-making. How data models are built depends upon the underlying tagging structure. And how easily building data slips into a specific cloud and combines with analytics programming depends upon the data model. Once you get the data model and tagging system set up and everything labeled, you may never want to change it. Niagara Community members serve as trusted advisers to building owners on questions of data infrastructure, and we often do the work of tagging. We are the crowd that is 'crowd sourcing' this work. We all need to understand the future ROI and the value sources present in the structured building data we create. These streams include the direct value building owners get from energy saving, predictive maintenance, grid connectivity, etc. Next, pre-structured data is of high value to other application developers (3rd-parties) and to data aggregators (4th parties) who envision creating marketplaces of data for training AI algorithms. Come to this session to gain an understanding of the whole value chain from data infrastructure experts from US Department of Energy, public cloud providers, analytics vendors, and commissioning/integration service providers.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Niagara to Support C-Suite Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Needs
- TRACK: TECH TRENDS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219AB
- MODERATOR: Marc Petock, Lynxspring
- DESCRIPTION: A triple convergence -OT/IT & Enterprise Reporting- is underway due to 2022's reenergized ESG commitments. C-level leaders are looking for easy, customizable and frictionless solutions to help them meet the ESG challenge. This panel will be a deeper dive on how Niagara Framework can enable real-time operational data to feed enterprise business apps such that C-suite decision-makers have at-their-fingertips access to Healthy Building status, Energy Efficiency/Carbon Footprint data and more.
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Indoor Air Quality & Healthy Buildings with Niagara
- TRACK: TECH TRENDS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219AB
- MODERATOR: Marcello Luisi, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: The pandemic has created new opportunities and new concerns related to the quality of the air and transmission of viruses within building spaces. What can be done to relieve occupant concerns about returning to buildings and to enhance building owners' ability to lease out their spaces. This session will explore how Niagara data and analytics can help to meet indoor environment goals.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Advancing IoT Technology Brings a Spectrum of New Niagara Applications
- TRACK: TECH TRENDS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E218
- MODERATOR: Nil Dutta, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Mobile devices, wireless networking and IoT advancements have opened new applications for a centralized OT platform like Niagara Framework . Clearly better in-building cellular coverage and the potential for ultra-high connection density is opening new vistas for the Niagara Development Community as well. Innovators from Veea Inc., Evauto, and Tyrrell Products will report on their work bringing Niagara together with cutting-edge tech. The session will cover real case studies—one involving how 5G and mesh networking can take the concept of a BMS to the next level in solutions that can scale to serve large, multi-tenant buildings as well as large building portfolios; a second case study covers a smart-city initiative focused on fire alarm reporting and management; the third case study is about an open Niagara-based Electric Vehicle (EV) Fleet Charge Management System that helps customers automate and fine-tune energy usage and reap the greatest savings from utility-run demand response programs. Presenters will share insights on how they made Niagara the foundation of their operational-data hubs.
APPLICATIONS TRACK
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Hackers - Uninvited Guests
- TRACK: APPLICATIONS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219CD
- PRESENTER: James Johnson, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Learn how to manage cyber security in Niagara including a deep dive into steps to properly harden installations using the new Security Dashboard, PKI certificates and code signing.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | The Innovation Revolution
- TRACK: APPLICATIONS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219CD
- PRESENTER: Chris Riccobono, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Get a high level overview of key features included in Niagara 4 releases since the last Summit. This primer session highlights some of the smaller yet powerful features and will help identify other deep dive breakout sessions to attend through out the Summit.
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Project Engineering 1 - Design Secrets for Great Looking Graphics
- TRACK: APPLICATIONS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219CD
- PRESENTER: Kevin Mamajek, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Learn how to design great looking graphics which utilize responsive capabilities, tag based bindings and UX media.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Open Cloud Connectivity 1 - Pushing Data to the Cloud Using JSON Toolkit and MQTT
- TRACK: APPLICATIONS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219CD
- PRESENTERS: Nick Dodd & Jason Woollard, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Come hear how JSON is becoming the defacto payload for customer Cloud business applications and how to use the JSON Toolkit with MQTT.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Tradeshow Open
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM | NASCAR Hall of Fame - Reception & Event (Sponsored by Microsoft)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6
GENERAL SESSION
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast & Customer Story Showcase
- LOCATION: Westin, Grand Ballroom
- DESCRIPTION: During breakfast, there will also be a Customer Story Showcase where you will find highlights about a curated set of Niagara deployments. In many cases, the Niagara Partners involved will be available to discuss their customer stories in depth. Look for these customer stories throughout the Grand Ballroom.
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM | Welcome to Niagara Summit
- LOCATION: Westin, Grand Ballroom
- PRESENTERS: Victor Abelairas, GM, Tridium
8:40 AM - 9:15 AM | MASTER SYSTEM INTEGRATOR EVOLUTION
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Westin, Grand Ballroom
- MODERATOR: Scott Cochrane, Cochrane Supply & Engineering
- DESCRIPTION: Aggregated… Normalized… Redistributed… and Secured… these are just some of the actions performed utilizing all the digital building data within a software platform. Acting as the glue all the while providing real-time control for mechanical and electrical systems. Join our host, Scott Cochrane, as he revisits the early successes from BAS Integrators back near the turn of the century, their evolving role within the BAS Sector and the market changes we’ve seen from the attention these platforms have drawn with the modern-day development of new capabilities at an astonishing rate. When it comes to master system integrators...do or do not, there is no try.
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM | Economics Insights - Accurately Prepare for Tomorrow (Sponsored By JCI)
- LOCATION: Westin, Grand Ballroom
- PRESENTERS: Alan Beaulieu, President of ITR Economics
- DESCRIPTION: Key segments of the US and global economy are experiencing a decelerating rate of rise while others are accelerating. We will assess the input from proven leading indicators and determine the opportunities and risks for the remainder of 2022 and for 2023 in pertinent segments of the economy. Labor, supply chain, and prices are top of mind for today’s business leader, and we will explore current and future trends and discuss what decision makers must consider in the face of these crucial factors. A clear understanding of inflation and interest rate trends is key to preparing for the coming years. Knowing what to plan for will place your company well ahead of the competition while increasing profit potential.
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Break / Walk to Charlotte Convention Center / Tradeshow
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
BUSINESS TRACK
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM | Cloud Based Data-driven Operations & Maintenance in 2022
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E217
- MODERATOR: Paul Price, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Partner solutions that provide a centralized repository of data streaming from building systems which can be queried to derive actionable information to optimize building operations. Focus on predictive maintenance, optimized scheduling, building operations.
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM | New Tridium Services Offerings: Marketplace & Professional Services
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E218
- MODERATOR: Curt Bramel, Tridium
- PANEL: Tom Cantos, Tridium & Bob Neubaum, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Come to hear about a new Niagara Marketplace with online transactions and the new capabilities of an enhanced Professional Services Team.
TECH TRENDS TRACK
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM | Out-of-the-Box Simplicity Ahead for Light Commercial
- TRACK: TECH TRENDS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219AB
- MODERATOR: Vincent Fonti, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: What if deploying an HVAC system was a plug-and-play matter? Equipment makers (OEMs) are moving toward that vision, embedding tags, control knowledge and optimization strategies for their product in the factory. When equipment like VRF systems, AHUs and FCUs can self-identify and self-optimize upon connection to a central building services network, the jobs of provisioning and commissioning an HVAC system will be much easier, and more buildings will be brought under centralized energy management reaping big savings in money and carbon output. This panel will bring together major OEMs who have partnered with Tridium to make Niagara the operating system of such central building networks—both for smaller VRF-equipped buildings as well as for large campuses served by central plants.
APPLICATIONS TRACK
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM | Open Cloud Connectivity 2 - HTTP Driver
- TRACK: APPLICATIONS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219CD
- PRESENTER: Curtis McKerlie, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: The new HTTP Client Driver provides tools for interracting with web services and restful API endpoints to exchange data between a Niagara station and external applications.
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | Lunch & Tradeshow - Richardson Ballroom, Charlotte Convention Center
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
BUSINESS TRACK
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Sustainable Building & Operations: See how Amazon is transforming its real estate using data
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E218
- MODERATOR: Ed Merwin, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: New ways to push the limit of sustainability and operational efficiency of buildings. A current ongoing Amazon Building Management Modernization project, utilizing AWS’ IoT and security capabilities to simplify building automation device provisioning, connectivity and commissioning while achieving the highest cyber security compliance of Tridium’s Niagara-based controllers. This modernized BMS data platform provides a cloud-native service for building sustainability (energy, emissions, air, water) and maintenance service for stakeholders.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | No BMS? No Custom Code? No Problem. Optimizing Small Footprint Buildings with Smart Edge Devices and Eliminating Complexity with Smart Appliances.
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E217
- MODERATOR: Roxette Mancero Sanchez, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: You want to do energy management across your whole portfolio or campus. The more buildings; the more savings. But, who can afford to put a BMS in every concrete tilt-up, garage and warehouse? Likewise, you have historical buildings renown for their location and style that all your tenants want to use. But, they are stuffy, drafty and the source of too many Hot/Cold calls. How do you affordably fix them and bring them into your centralized energy management strategy. Come to this session to hear how Niagara at the Edge along with "Ease of Use" tools and strategies provide value for Sis and facility managers.
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Commissioning Smart Buildings - From "Nice to Have" to "A Must for Success"
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E218
- MODERATOR: Paul Warnes, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: This panel discuss the skills, methods, and best practices of commissioning highly integrated, IP based smart buildings. This highly experienced panel will cover how to uncover and prevent many issues that have been experienced on smart building projects through thorough commissiong strategy and tactics. Saving time, reducing errors and costs.
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Smart Buildings from Concept, Design, Install, and Commissioning
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E217
- MODERATOR: Nathan Kehr, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: This session presents industry use-cases for design, development and future-proofing for the smart buildings of tomorrow. The panel will discuss how to plan and execute a smart building strategy in the current environment to provide a future-ready and scalable approach for smart building projects and portfolios. Building owners, consulting engineers, system integrators and other consultants will benefit from the takeaways derived from this timely discussion.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Connected Intelligent Edge, Portability and Containerization
- TRACK: BUSINESS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E217
- MODERATOR: Jacqueline Walpole, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Exploring the new third party EDGE community using Niagara Portability and Containerization.
TECH TRENDS TRACK
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | How to Successfully Integrate Access Security with BMS
- TRACK: TECH TRENDS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E217
- MODERATOR: Michael Smith, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: No in-building technology is evolving as fast as the video analytics software running the cameras and recording servers used by physical security teams. Among the many benefits of integrating access control and physical security systems within your Niagara-based BMS is the ability to better tune the delivery of building services – heating, cooling, lighting – based on traffic patterns and occupancy. Insights from video can help you optimize energy use and space planning. During this session, we will overview the state-of-the-art in Access Security-BMS integration in the context of different building types – offices, schools, hospitals. We’ll consider real-world deployments and explore how video data can enrich BIM models and step you toward a digital twin strategy.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Niagara Meets BIM & AR/VR to Advantage the FM Function
- TRACK: TECH TRENDS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219AB
- MODERATOR: Therese Sullivan, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Digital building data is just beginning its useful life once it is aggregated, normalized, redistributed and secured within a Niagara platform. During the session, we will overview the MSI's involvement from the very beginning of a project to qualify data requirements. Presenters will explore how data models are key to unifying different systems and services from both the OT and IT worlds. Presenters will walk through the creation of common references such as a BIM model used in the deployment of a maintenance (CMMS)application. You will learn about how this model works with workplace app's and how it evolves with the help of data scientists with expertise in machine-learning and deep analytics. New advances in mixed-reality technology will also be explored in this session. AR/VR takes Niagara data to the next level, where BIM-type 3D models incorporating BAS and HVAC data are overlayed on top of live camera footage, creating a fully connected experience between the two worlds.
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | AI – What it Takes to Feed and Train an Algorithm
- TRACK: TECH TRENDS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219AB
- MODERATOR: Eric Larsen, Director, Client Services, Intelligent Buildings, LLC.
- DESCRIPTION: Powerful AI algorithms for building systems combined with cloud computing are expected to be the future of systems integration. The scenario described by some is that once a building is connected to an AI provider’s cloud system, the AI will auto-tag points in the ontology requested by the user; create a data lake for those points; and learn the control sequences of automation assets and understand their connection topology as a whole system. Based on this, the AI will automatically understand how the system functions and predict and tune its performance on an ongoing basis. How close are we today to that AI future? In this session, speakers will present their definition of AI and explain how algorithms self-learn. Each panelist is bringing a real AI case study and is ready to discuss results in settings from a warehouse, a manufacturing floor to a Class A office building.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Niagara Beyond Buildings - Industrial IoT Cases
- TRACK: TECH TRENDS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219AB
- MODERATOR: Nil Dutta, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: This session will explore the use of Niagara in a process industry setting—applications that are often considered the domain of traditional PLC or DCS platforms. Two case studies will be presented: The first comes from the Utah Olympic Park where snow equipment across the park needs to be maintained within a narrow temperature range to meet regulations and ensure athlete safety. Phoenix Controls built a fault-tolerant process control system using Niagara. The second comes from Chesapeake Controls who built a centralized utility metering system for food-process industry customer Kraft-Heinz Corporation. Niagara revealed where there was need to repair compressed-air leaks; dial back on steam boilers; unload refrigeration systems; shut down machinery, saving Kraft-Heinz significant energy and carbon footprint costs.
APPLICATIONS TRACK
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Project Engineering 2 - Accelerated Engineering Using Templates and Provisioning
- TRACK: APPLICATIONS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219CD
- PRESENTER: Kyle Sardinia, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Learn how the latest provisioning tools make commissioning JACE and EDGE controllers a breeze in a deep dive demonstration.
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Niagara Cloud Suite: Roadmap & Vision
- TRACK: APPLICATIONS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219AB
- MODERATOR: Isabel Tucker, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Isabel Tucker, Tridium Product Manager, addresses Niagara Cloud Suite, the overall vision, and provides a roadmap and a snapshot of what is to come.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Project Engineering 3 - Rapid Supervisor Deployment with System Database and On Demand Px
- TRACK: APPLICATIONS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219CD
- PRESENTER: Curtis McKerlie, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: See how the System Database helps automate setup of supervisors leveraging on demand Px views and Niagara virtual components.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Single Sign On - Making Enterprise Systems Easy to Access
- TRACK: APPLICATIONS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E218
- PRESENTER: James Johnson, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Learn how to utilize SAML and Client Certificates to configure single-sign-on solutions which make user access to Niagara easy, especially for large systems.
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Getting Value Out Of Data - Practical Benefits of Analytics
- TRACK: APPLICATIONS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219CD
- PRESENTER: Kevin Mamajek, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: See a demo of how to powerfully deploy metadata and make analyzing Niagara data an easy task.
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | IP Controllers - Edge 10 and ACE Control Engine
- TRACK: APPLICATIONS
- LOCATION: Charlotte Convention Center, Room E219CD
- PRESENTER: Kyle Sardinia, Tridium
- DESCRIPTION: Learn about the latest IP Niagara controller platform using Niagara for EDGE control applications and how to build fast applications using the new ACE engine.
