Niagara Graphics and Operator Dashboards

The graphics are the building automation system, as far as most of the people using it are concerned. An operator does not experience your integration work or your control logic — they experience the screen at 6am when something is wrong. Niagara graphics and dashboard development is the work of making that screen answer the question quickly.

What We Build

  • Operator graphics — plant and floor views that show state clearly rather than decoratively.
  • HTML5 and mobile-friendly views — usable on a phone in a plant room, not just on a workstation.
  • Alarm and event consoles — prioritised so the important thing is visible, not buried in noise.
  • Energy and performance dashboards — consumption, demand and anomalies in a form a facilities manager can act on.
  • Portfolio and executive views — roll-ups across many buildings for people who will never open Workbench.
  • Custom UX modules — BajaScript and JavaScript where stock widgets stop.

Legibility Is Not Decoration

Operators look at these screens for entire shifts. Colour that carries meaning consistently, hierarchy that puts the abnormal first, and text that is readable in a badly lit plant room are functional requirements, not styling preferences. We also build darker themes for exactly that reason.

An Honest Note on Migration

If you are moving from AX to N4, graphics are usually the largest single item of unexpected effort — legacy Px work often needs rebuilding rather than converting. We scope that explicitly as part of migration services instead of letting it surface halfway through.

Tell us who uses your screens and what they need to see and we will design graphics around that rather than around the equipment list.

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