MultiTech Systems unveiled its Niagara Driver at this week’s Tridium Niagara Summit in National Harbor, Maryland.

Niagara Driver is a software integration layer within the Tridium Niagara framework that allows users to add and manage LoRaWan sensors within the Niagara environment. Building managers can now have a smart building platform that accommodates both BMS devices and IoT sensors, securely and in a single application.

The driver simplifies LoRaWan sensor deployment by allowing building managers to add and configure sensors directly within the Niagara framework, the environment many already use to manage building systems. Without it, sensors must be configured separately within the MultiTech gateway before data can flow into Niagara. The driver eliminates that extra step, along with the need for middleware, custom APIs or MQTT pipelines, by delivering IoT sensor data directly into Niagara as normalised data points ready for use in control logic, alarming, scheduling and analytics.

“MultiTech is committed to empowering building management with secure, wireless IoT,” said Matt Lubeley, vice president at MultiTech Systems (multitech.com). “Niagara is the industry standard for building integration, and MultiTech expands its capacity. By natively integrating IoT sensor networks and edge connectivity into Niagara, MultiTech eliminates integration complexity, reduces deployment cost and unlocks data that traditional BMS systems simply can’t access.”

Alper Yegin, CEO of the LoRa Alliance (lora-alliance.org), added: “Increasingly, we see LoRaWan deployments at the heart of smart building initiatives. As a secure, mature, open standard, LoRaWan has become the go-to complementary technology for commercial and multitenant real estate systems. The MultiTech Niagara Driver will be a catalyst for LoRaWan deployments in smart buildings.”

Attendees at the summit experienced live demonstrations of the driver’s intuitive drag-and-drop onboarding and unified dashboards. Following the summit, the driver will be available for download from the Tridium Marketplace. Interested parties can schedule demos or learn more at multitech.com/niagara-connector.