Design, Engineer, and Program Projects using the Niagara4 Framework

4 days of classroom training with hands-on lab exercises, descriptive presentations and lectures, and the certification test. Students in this class will learn the basics of creating a Niagara4 Station, including creating and editing schedules, configuring alarms, collecting and viewing history data (trending), met-data tagging, and network integrations. This is a very intensive training class with very little down time. Be prepared to move fairly quickly through very technical material.

Monday

• Class introduction and logistics
• Niagara4 System Architecture
• Understanding the Niagara4 Platform Daemon and Platform Tools
• Creating a Niagara4 Station
• Station Copying
• Programming Control Logic in a Niagara4 Station, Part 1: Cycling a Ventilation Fan on Space Temperature
• Setting up a Boolean Schedule
• Calendar Schedules / Special Events
• Simulating a Changing Sensor Value to Test Your Logic Using A Ramp

Tuesday

• Creating a PX View (Graphic), Part 1, Fan Control PX View
• Meta Data Tagging,
• Niagara Tag Dictionary
• Haystack Tag Dictionary
• Adhoc Tags
• NEQL Queries
• Demonstration of BQL Queries
• Programming Control Logic in a Niagara4 Station, Part 2: Controlling a Cooling Only VAV Damper
• Understanding the System Passphrase
• Commissioning a JACE
• Creating a PX View, Part 2, VAV PX

Wednesday

• BACnet Integration: Adding a BACnet Network Driver
• BACnet Tuning Policies
• Adding an MSTP Port
• Discovering Controllers
• Creating Proxied Points
• Enum Schedule, Scheduling the BACnet Controller
• BACnet IP Integration
• Setting up the IP Port
• Discovering Controllers
• Creating Proxied Points
• Using Control Logic Directly on Proxied Points
• Optional Lab: Pump PX View
• Optional Labs: LON Integration
• Optional Lab: Creating a Personal Palette and Modifying the "New” Menu
• Collecting History and Viewing History Records

Thursday

• Generating and Viewing Alarms
• Creating a PX View, Part 3, Creating a PX View for the BACnet Controller
• Security And User Administration, Part 1: Hierarchies
• Security And User Administration, Part 2: Security Categories and Authentication Schemes
• Security And User Administration, Part 3, Permissions Given To A User:
• Read Permission
• Write Permission
• Invoke Permission
• Permission Levels, Admin and Operator Levels
• Creating User Accounts
• Niagara Network Integration
• Sending Alarms to a Supervisor Station
• Copying History Files to a Supervisor Station
• Creating a NAV File
• Copying Stations

Friday

• Certification Test

• The certification training classes offered by M.O.V. Training Services are fast-paced and intensive.
• These are not classes on how to use Microsoft Windows.
• Students are expected to have basic computer skills (e.g., navigating file paths, using right/left click, etc.).
• The class will not slow down to accommodate students who cannot perform basic computer functions.
• No refund of tuition will be made to students who do not heed this information.

• Students are expected to have basic computer skills (e.g., navigating file paths, using right/left click, etc.).