Veea and Tecno Buildings have partnered to deploy the first Containerised Portable Niagara software framework in a mass urban transit system. Veea collaborated closely with Tridium to develop CPN, and is a Tridium partner deploying containerised Niagara at the network edge — removing wired connectivity in greenfield and brownfield deployments.

CPN provides a platform for creating device-to-enterprise applications. It provides a central console for normalising and connecting real-time operational data in smart buildings, smart cities and data centres.

Using CPN on the Veea Edge Platform, Tecno Buildings has deployed a pilot to collect IoT data is collected in an urban mass transit system. Tecno Buildings has installed VeeaHubs with CPN at select stations throughout a major urban subway network in Latin America to wirelessly monitor and gather systems data.

The objective of the subway pilot programme is to demonstrate that the combination of the Veea Edge Platform running CPN within a long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) will reduce energy consumption costs while also providing proactive and predictive maintenance alerts for unplanned system downtime.

“The transportation network deployment demonstrates a winning combination of containerised Niagara framework on Veea’s Edge Platform and Tecno Buildings design skills,” said Michael Youngs, Global Sales Director, OEM at Tridium, an independent business entity of Honeywell International. “Running Niagara at the edge will reduce downtime and costs for the transportation hubs and allow for use case expansion at the same locations to address other needs.”