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Services

What we build, and what you get for it

Six services, all of them the software layer of a building automation system. Each quoted as a fixed price against a written specification, with the deliverables listed before the work starts.

Start here

Not sure which of those a job needs?

The six above are named in Niagara vocabulary, which is the right language once there is a station and the wrong one when there is a building. If the problem is still described in BMS terms — the graphics are unusable, that chiller will not come into the head end, nobody knows what is installed — start one level up.

Building automation software on Niagara explains where the framework sits in a BMS, what the software layer of a project actually consists of, and which of these six each kind of problem turns into. It also maps the vocabulary both ways, so a quote is not lost in the gap between "trend log" and "history extension".

Where Niagara sits in a BMS →

Engagement

How a piece of work runs

  1. A conversation

    Niagara version, target hardware, what exists today and what has to be true at the end. Usually half an hour.

  2. A written specification

    Scope, behaviour, failure behaviour, deliverables and what is explicitly out of scope. You keep it whether or not you proceed.

  3. A fixed price

    Against that specification. If the scope changes, the specification changes first and the price changes with it.

  4. Build and review

    Delivered in reviewable pieces rather than as one drop at the end, so a misunderstanding costs days instead of the project.

  5. Handover

    The signed module or the commissioned station, an installation note written for the commissioning engineer, and source where it is in scope.

Next step

Tell us the version, the hardware, and what it has to do.

You will get a written scope and a fixed price against it. If the honest answer is that you do not need us, you will get that instead.