Database Platform Conversion

When a facility owner decides to replace a Building Automation System, there is tremendous value in maximizing the number of viable options. Whether the current system has simply reached the end of its lifecycle, or failed to deliver the expected value, the facility owner will benefit from having options.

In many cases there maybe some perceived advantage to following the upgrade path of the legacy system manufacturer as it is more likely to offer some form of backward compatibility, or maybe just more comprehensive processes to facilitate the migration. Ideally a facility owner should evaluate the merits of competing systems with a forward looking perspective more focused on the value that the new system will deliver into the future and less concerned with potential incompatibilities with legacy field devices or the format of their point, alarm and trend database objects.

In a perfect world, the facility owner would be more concerned about evaluating which system offers the most potential to enhance operational efficiency and the effectiveness of the facility operations staff, and less concerned with training operations personnel to operate a system that maybe unfamiliar within a facility that may be very familiar.

Ideally, the facility owner could preserve the familiarity of the legacy system and the inherent productivity associated with that familiarity, without limiting his/her options. Preferably, there would be an expert automated process commercially available to convert the control database from the legacy platform to a new platform, and there is for conversion of Metasys™ NCM or NEA databases to Tridium Niagara AX platform databases. It’s called 2FxConverter.

To find out more visit: 2fxconverter.com.