About Periscope
PeriscopeTM is a rich internet application (RIA) built on HTML5, an open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. Periscope runs as a service on a Niagara4 station (a platform marketed by most of the major controls suppliers) and can be easily integrated with third party BACnet, LonWorks, SQL and other standard protocols. It provides a web-based client that can graphically display and analyze any information contained in the automation control system, as well as related items like weather, occupancy, and production from other traditional databases.
Periscope Benefits
Periscope is unique in its ability to allow each and every user the ability to easily customize (in minutes) their own “views” of various data, histories, and metrics, including energy trends, building comparisons, weather data, network status, consumption efficiencies, key performance indices, and more. Periscope can even display the custom pages built with proprietary graphics tools, thus preserving prior investments while enabling side-by-side comparisons of operating graphics with related variables and performance trends.
Periscope Goals
Designed to promote behavioral change through wider access to critical facility control parameters, Periscope enables a high level of engagement by facility stakeholders that, for the first time, can see the real-time impact of the choices they make in utilization of facility resources like lighting, electricity, water and other consumables. Using Periscope, facility stakeholders can truly become “agents of change”, with the ability to dramatically influence the demand on limited facility resources.