Gareth Johnson's Blog http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/Blog/17 Gareth Johnson's Blog A Beginner's Guide to oBIX (even if you're not a developer!) - Part 7 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/191 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/191 Mon, 24 May 2010 11:10:16 EDT Posted by Gareth Johnson

A feature missing from oBIX is the ability to query an oBIX Server. After all, this is typically one of the first items on an oBIX developer's agenda.

]]> Creating Niagara Appliances - Part 1 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/190 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/190 Mon, 10 May 2010 09:10:34 EDT Posted by Gareth Johnson

Firstly, I'd like to say how great it was to see everyone at the Niagara Summit. One piece of feedback I got loud and clear is that we should try blogging more often. Therefore, I'm following up my Session with a series of blog articles relating to creating Appliances.

]]> oBIX Round Up http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/186 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/186 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:39:27 EST Posted by Gareth Johnson

Interested in using oBIX to create some whiz bang view? Wondering how oBIX works? Or perhaps you just want to soak up some Niagara histories into an Energy App?

]]> Supervisor Auto-Configuration in Niagara AX 3.5 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/182 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/182 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:03:44 EDT Posted by Gareth Johnson

Niagara 3.5 is jam packed full of new exciting features. One of these is the ability for a Web Supervisor to automatically configure itself. If you're doing mass M2M, this will transform the way you engineer Niagara and save you a ton of engineering time.

]]> The Niagara Forum 2009, Google Maps and oBIX http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/175 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/175 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:55:05 EDT Posted by Gareth Johnson

Well I've got a bumper edition of a blog article for everyone today! I would first like to say a big thank you to all who attended and helped with the European Niagara Forum 2009. It was great to see everyone.

]]> Niagara Virtual Components - Part 2 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/172 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/172 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:04:13 EST Posted by Gareth Johnson

The other day, I was asked what gargantuan sized PC would be needed for 55 thousand Niagara Points. Mmmm, well by using Niagara Virtual Components, there would be 0 Niagara Points because everything would be created 'on demand'. Hence the whole solution becomes far more scalable. How's does this work then? Well read on trusty Niagara user...

]]> Niagara Virtual Components - Part 1 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/163 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/163 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:30:24 EDT Posted by Gareth Johnson

One of the new features in Niagara AX 3.4 are Niagara Virtual Components. So what is a Niagara Virtual Component and what precisely are they used for?

]]> Summit 2008 Material http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/151 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/151 Tue, 20 May 2008 05:38:28 EDT Posted by Gareth Johnson

It was great to see so many people at this year's Summit!

]]> A Beginner's Guide to oBIX (even if you're not a developer!) - Part 6 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/136 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/136 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:16:41 EST Posted by Gareth Johnson

So far we've learnt a majority of the skills and techniques that will enable us to create a fully featured oBIX client. However, there is one important technique that provides an efficiency boost to your client applications called the 'Batch' Operation.

]]> A Beginner's Guide to oBIX (even if you're not a developer!) - Part 5 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/135 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/135 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:41:05 EST Posted by Gareth Johnson

This week I'm going to talk about accessing histories using oBIX. Accessing histories is quite a straight forward process in oBIX as I'm sure you'll see.

]]> European Niagara Forum 2007 - Thanks! http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/128 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/128 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:51:04 EST Posted by Gareth Johnson

I would just like to say a big thank you for everyone who attended the highly successful Niagara Forum in Amsterdam recently.

]]> European Niagara Forum 2007 - Developer Topics http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/126 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/126 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:16:11 EDT Posted by Gareth Johnson

Well it's all go at the moment with the European version of the Niagara Summit fast approaching. Thanks for everyone who's submitted some feedback into what they'd like to see from the developer sessions.

]]> A Beginner's Guide to oBIX (even if you're not a developer!) - Part 4 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/124 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/124 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:43:41 EDT Posted by Gareth Johnson

In the last part of the guide, I covered using a Watch to subscribe to information from an oBIX Server. This week we're going to use a Watch to register, query and acknowledge alarms from oBIX. Again, if you want to cover any of the topics in more detail, please refer to the original oBIX specification that you can download from the first part of the guide.

]]> European Niagara Forum 2007 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/123 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/123 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:11:20 EDT Posted by Gareth Johnson

Don't miss the European Niagara Forum in Amsterdam (October 18th and 19th)! For more information please click here.

]]> A Beginner's Guide to oBIX (even if you're not a developer!) - Part 3 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/120 http://www.niagaraframework.com:80/ord?portal:/blog/BlogEntry/120 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:14:26 EDT Posted by Gareth Johnson

This week I'm going to talk about the WatchService. Now before you ask me, "Gareth, why do I need to know about the WatchService? I've got a perfectly good digital one on my wrist!", a Watch is how we get gain access to real-time information in a highly scalable way. Your next question might be, "Ok, but I can already access real-time point information by regularly making HTTP GETs to an oBIX URI". If this is your response (and I wouldn't blame you for thinking it), then stop and read on since polling 50 URIs to get back any point changes is not the way we do things in the world of oBIX!

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