The aceEdge driver is a Niagara driver with two components: ace-rt.jar, ace-wb.jar, ace-ux.jar and aceEdge-rt.jar. It allows a station to connect the ACE instance for control monitoring.

The nem driver will currently allow the following operations:

• Download/Upload an application.
• Discovery of data points and addition of proxy points.
• Live program and applications

To use

The aceEdge driver follows the patten used in other Niagara Drivers. To setup a device do the following steps:

• From the palette sidebar select the aceEdge module.
• Add a AceEdgeNetwork to the Drivers

Application Creation

To create a new ACE application:

1. Open the Niagara Workbench Tools pull down
2. Select New ACE App.
3. Fill in the storage directory, the app a name > file to use.
4. From Workbench Window/Side Bars select ACE Catalog for palette of > components.
5. Drag components to wiresheet and link
6. Save to create a *.ace

Application Download

To download an application:

1. On the local ACE application / Download App
2. Navigate to the desired *.ace file and press ok
3. Observe success of failure reason in Jobs sidebar.

Add Proxy Points

Proxy points can be added to configure or monitor points in the device. Points are specific object/properties.

To add proxy points:

1. Navigate to the device’s point folder.
2. Press the Discover button to populate discover pane with points. Points are organized in folders by component.
3. Select one or more points to add and press Add for a popup to select point name and point type. The default values are usually sufficient. You can also use hot key to add with default values – select one or more points and press ‘a’.

Live Programming

1. On the local ACE application / View App
2. This will add and App component to Local and hyperlink to its wiresheet view.
3. Add components and links as desired.