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INTELLIGENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT

Manage usage. Analyze rates. Reduce costs.

Welcome to the VYKON® Energy SuiteAX from Tridium.

The VYKON Energy SuiteAX (VESAX) is an advanced, web-based, Internet-enabled energy management solution that gathers, analyzes, and communicates up-to-date energy information. VESAX provides energy managers with all the tools they need to gather, analyze, and reduce energy costs.

Built on Tridium’s industry-leading NiagaraAX Framework®, VESAX analyzes and aggregate loads, benchmarks facilities, and determines how building characteristics such as size, equipment type, schedules, and climate correlate with energy consumption.  And it lets you do this in real time from any standard web browser, anywhere in the world.  The VYKON Energy SuiteAX is a browser-based, real-time energy management tool that gives you unique visibility into energy consumption patterns so you can reduce costs and drive efficiencies.

VYKON allows the diverse, multi-protocol systems distributed across your facilities to connect and converse with each other – and with the enterprise – so you can derive actionable intelligence from the information they contain.

A range of benefits across your enterprise:

  • Empowers your organization to proactively manage your energy budgets, benchmark facilities, and analyze rates for electricity, water, gas, and other utilities.
  • Lets your corporate and facility managers deal with energy in financial terms – such as comparing energy costs under different rate structures.
  • Allows you to allocate costs from master metered location to sub-metered locations without having to manually read meters at each site.
  • Enables you to strategically manage your operations, implement changes, measure results, and evaluate how your overall energy costs can be significantly reduced.
  • Allows you to identify not only how much energy can be saved, but also how much that energy saves you in real dollars.
  • Verifies utility billings and simplifies utility procurement strategies.  
  • Provides access to real-time energy and cost data any time, from any location, through a standard web browser. No special software or computers are required.
  • Allows you to determine the true value of on-site generation assets.
  • Provides for easy system engineering management and configuration via the Internet.

PROTECT, CONTROL, and MONITOR

the security of your facility in real-time.

Enter VYKON® Security, an advanced, web-based, Internet-enabled access control and intrusion detection system built on the industry leading NiagaraAX Framework®. VYKON Security provides physical protection for your assets whether a single building or a large multi-site application. VYKON Security enables authorized security administrators to manage credential enrollment, access rights and schedules, time and attendance, and alarm response in real time via a standard web browser from anywhere at anytime. In a dynamic world where personnel and requirements can change quickly, having real-time control provides better security.

At the heart of VYKON Security is the Security Appliance, an IP-based controller capable of storing thousands of credentials and controlling multiple doors. The Security Appliance serves the complete VYKON Security software suite to a standard web browser, eliminating the need for an on-site PC or the purchase and installation of proprietary software. No longer is the security staff chained to a particular PC for system monitoring and management. Managing thick client software upgrades is a thing of the past, and because the NiagaraAX Framework uses standard IT technologies (i.e., browser, XML, SNMP, LDAP, JMS, etc.), it's easy to manage the convergence of physical and logical security.

Security professionals will recognize that a physical security system built on the NiagaraAX Framework will provide better ROI than closed PC-based systems. It reduces costs by allowing remote maintenance and troubleshooting. Devices from multiple manufacturers work as an integrated system, thereby reducing the cost to purchase, maintain, and repair.

VYKON Security is rich with ease-of-use features and is designed with intuitive browser-based views of credentials, schedules, alarms, and activities. Setup of the system is simple via a series of wizards that will have your basic protection up and running quickly. Enrolling new employees is a snap.

While basic setup is quick and easy, authorized security personnel can also enable more advanced logic such as multiple levels of anti-passback, integration with the building automation systems, and custom reporting views.

Advanced features include:

  • Time and Attendance Reporting
  • Integration with BAS via BACnet, Lonworks, Modbus, OPC, and Legacy Device Integration
  • Guided Wizard Setup
  • Anti-Passback
To integrate diverse systems a physical connection to a device's network is required. The Java Application Control Engine (JACE) is the mechanism that provides this connectivity to systems within a building. By connecting common network protocols such as LonWorks, BACnet, and Modbus, along with many proprietary networks a unified system without seams emerges. Scalability and reliability concerns are avoided with the unique distributed architecture that a network of JACE's creates.

There are several JACE Controller options including:

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NiagaraAX is a software framework and development environment that solves the challenges associated with building Internet-enabled products, device-to-enterprise applications and distributed Internet-enabled automation systems. NiagaraAX builds on the pioneering capabilities of Niagara R2, originally introduced in 1999, and the experience gained in deploying over 120,000 Niagara-based products worldwide.Niagara R2 introduced the concept of a software framework that could normalize the data and behavior of diverse devices, regardless of manufacturer or communication protocol, to enable the implementation of seamless, Internet-connected, web-based systems. NiagaraAX takes that concept to the next level.

The core concept of Niagara is its unique, patented component model that transforms the data from diverse external systems into uniform software components. These components form the foundation for building applications to manage and control the devices. In Niagara R2, the component model focused primarily on modeling data from the various systems to create a uniform data set for applications. The NiagaraAXcomponent model goes beyond unifying protocols and data from diverse systems, to unify the entire development environment used to build applications.|

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The key requirements that guided the development of NiagaraAX included:

Creating a uniform software environment and component model across all layers of the device-to-enterprise solution stack. This means that whether you are building a small controller or a comprehensive enterprise application, with NiagaraAX , developers work in the same programming environment with the same tools;

 

Providing open APIs to all system services and an extensible component model that enable partners to develop their own applications, plug-ins and drivers independent of Tridium;

Providing all-inclusive support for web-services data handling and communications with enterprise applications;

Enabling large system scalability and a distributed processing architecture over any Internet, Intranet or Wireless network.

NiagaraAX provides the environment, tools and services to enable partners to develop products and applications quickly and easily.


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NiagaraAX Highlights

New Graphics Presentation Framework and Graphic Development Tool
NiagaraAX includes an all new technology for creating browser-based displays. This new technology supports both rich client displays for use with browsers that support Java plug-ins, plus pure thin client displays that support only HTML and JavaScript. This comprehensive framework permits you to create displays for wide range of devices including PC’s, PDA’s and smart phones. AX’s new presentation technology automatically generates navigation trees that eliminates substantial application development effort, and includes an extensive library of graphic elements to aid in the user experience.

Comprehensive Library of Control Objects
We’ve added a new comprehensive set of control objects to make it easier to accomplish control strategies. Custom programming objects can be developed to provide even more flexibility.

New Data Archive Model and Flexible Archive Destinations
A new time-series model provides a fast and scalable historical database. This allows historical data to be archived from anywhere to anywhere, permitting unlimited flexibility in system architecture.

New Alarming Capabilities Provides Better Visualization and User Experience
Many of the features provided by the separate Vykon Alarm Service application are now built into the core of NiagaraAX,e.g., Sortable Columns, Sound Files and the ability to add Notes to Alarms.

Reporting
NiagaraAX includes a comprehensive, built-in reporting system. A native query language (BQL) allows you to query and assemble data from anywhere within a station, and a built-in PDF document engine produces complete, high quality report formats – even directly from a JACE. A single click on a link in a graphic can produce a customized, dynamically created report.

Open Driver Development Toolkit
Now partners can develop their own communication drivers independent of Tridium. A comprehensive “driver framework” dramatically reduces development time and insures that all drivers are modeled in a uniform way to insure consistency and reduce complexity.

Open APIs for Developers
In NiagaraAX, all of the APIs for internal system operations are available to developers. You can create your own applications, plug-ins, wizards and drivers completely with the Framework.

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SCALABLE. ROBUST. INTEGRATED.

handshakeVYKON Building provides building owners and facility management with a web-based building automation system that unifies diverse equipment systems and control devices into a single, easy-to-navigate web site. With the ability to integrate standard protocols with legacy systems from a wide variety of building automation providers, VYKON Building breaks through the traditional barriers between systems to create a seamless solution. As a web-based application suite, VYKON Building can be accessed anywhere, at anytime, from any cell phone or other web-enabled device.

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With VYKON Building, your standard web browser is your management and control console. Comprehensive tools make it easy to create custom displays, control algorithms, and operational strategies to meet specific requirements. In addition, there are pre-created graphics in the library that can be used to represent mechanical and electrical systems. The result is an intuitive user interface, making your entire facility a dynamic easy-to-navigate web site customized to your specific needs.







A range of benefits and ROI across multiple business functions:

Facility and Equipment Management

  • Increases system and equipment functionality.
  • Improves facility operations.
  • Improves customer comfort, enhancing the user experience.
  • Reduces downtime caused by equipment failure.
  • Improves visibility into mission-critical operational
  • assets via a web-based interface for all facilities.

Maintenance & Operations

  • Speeds maintenance and problem resolution.
  • Supports preventive maintenance.
  • Reduces equipment downtime.
  • Enables performance-based prioritization of maintenance.
  • Enables remote diagnostics and repair.
  • Lowers renovation and construction costs.