Two pieces of software ship with every BTM-K1. The K1 Workbench β a wizard-driven, WYSIWYG engineering tool for Windows β and the K1 Supervisor, a full HTML5 operator station served straight off the controller. Both are included with every controller purchase.
This is a live, working emulation of the actual K1 Workbench interface. Click through the tabs. Click a terminal on the map. This is what commissioning a K1 feels like.
Windows engineering & commissioning software. Wizard-driven where competitors are expert-driven β a new tech is productive in an afternoon, not after a $3,000 certification course.
Finds every BTM-K1 and BTM-IO module on the network β BACnet/IP Who-Is plus BTM mDNS. Model, firmware, IP, and point mix on a card. Add to project in one click.
A live picture of the physical terminal strip. Click UI2 on screen, configure UI2 on the bench. Terminals color as you work β blue editing, green configured. What you see is what's wired.
Pick device β configure points β apply template β review & deploy. Signal types (0-10V, 4-20mA, 10K thermistor, dry contact, pulse), engineering units, scaling β no spreadsheets, no CSV imports.
Packaged RTU, Heat Pump, and Generator Monitor (J1939) fill every point with correct names, types, units, and tags in one click. Your standards become templates too.
Visual function-block programming β PID, schedules, compares, delays, staging β wired on a pan/zoom canvas. Familiar to any Niagara tech, with none of the licensing.
Semantic tags (equipRef, air, temp, discharge, sensorβ¦) applied as chips during point config β not bolted on later. Tagged data means automatic graphics and analytics downstream.
Every deploy shows exactly what changes before it changes β adds, edits, removals in a color diff. Progress bar, verification, and rollback on failure.
The whole job in one rail β station, controllers, I/O buses, points, logic, services. Projects saved as portable .k1proj files you can email to a colleague.
Describe the sequence β "Guideline 36 VAV with demand-control ventilation" β and the assistant generates the wire sheet from your tagged points. You review on the canvas and deploy.
Template a floor of VAVs once, deploy to fifty controllers with device-specific addressing. Fleet firmware updates with staged rollout and automatic rollback.
Drag-and-drop HMI graphics bound to Haystack tags β floor plans, equipment graphics, dashboards β published straight to the controller's web server and touchscreen.
Zero-touch provisioning against the K1's hardware secure element (IEEE 802.1AR device identity). Certificates, not passwords. IEC 62443 SL2 posture out of the box.
A complete HTML5 operator workstation served from the K1 itself. No client software, no seat licenses, no separate supervisor PC for small jobs. Open a browser β or just touch the K1's screen.
Real-time point tiles, equipment status, controller health (CPU, memory, PowerGuard charge), active alarms, and mini-trends β streaming over Server-Sent Events, no polling, no plugins.
Every writable point carries a BACnet-style 16-level priority array β protocol-independent. Operator override at priority 8, relinquish to schedule, see exactly who's commanding what and why.
Live alarm feed with severity, acknowledge/clear workflow, and history. Alarm routing by semantic tag β every "critical + chiller" alarm to the right phone, automatically.
Every point trended on-board with wear-optimized storage (batched writes, WAL2 β the eMMC outlives the building). Zoomable charts from 15 minutes to years, exportable.
Paint occupancy across a 7Γ24 grid β click-drag, done. Holiday calendars and exception days. Schedules keep running on the controller even if every network above it dies.
BACnet/IP, MS/TP, Modbus, MQTT, and CAN/J1939 health at a glance β including live generator telemetry (RPM, oil PSI, coolant, fuel, kW, fault codes) served as points.
Supercap charge state, ride-through readiness, and outage reports with timestamps and duration. The K1 tells you the power failed β it never just goes dark.
Dual-partition updates with automatic rollback β a failed update reverts itself. Control loops keep executing on the real-time core throughout. Unbrickable by design.
Factory-new K1 broadcasts its own WiFi hotspot. A tech with a phone browser commissions the controller at the panel β no laptop, no licensed tool, no truck roll for IT.
Presence detection that wakes the display when a tech steps up, plus points-list and programming-document scanning β show the K1 a submittal schedule and it reads the points for setup. Published as points on the bus, advisory to control logic. Fully offline.
One button on any alarm cascade: the on-board language model reads the K1's own trends and alarm history, then names the likely root cause and which alarms are downstream noise. Fully offline, grounded only in your building's data β advisory, never in the control path.
Push-to-talk at the panel: ask "what's the discharge temp trend today?" and the answer renders on the touchscreen. Embedded speech-to-text and language model on the controller itself β no cloud, no account. Also available as text chat in the commissioning hotspot.
Predictive machine-health algorithms in the core runtime: the K1 baselines cycle counts, run hours, temperatures, and readily available vibration sensors wired to its inputs β then surfaces bearing wear, imbalance, and short-cycling as standard alarm points with trend history. Predictive maintenance built into the controller, no dedicated monitoring system required.
Neural-network Model Predictive Control learns the building's thermal inertia from its own trends and optimizes staging against real-time grid pricing β pre-cool cheap, coast through the peak. Optimal trajectories computed on the application cores, executed deterministically by the real-time core.
Controllers federate histories and alarms up to a fleet-level BTM Supervisor (PostgreSQL) for portfolio analytics β while every building keeps running standalone if the link drops.
Encrypted, certificate-based BACnet Secure Connect over TLS 1.3 β IT-friendly, no BBMDs, enterprise-subnet ready. The K1 can serve as node or hub.
Legacy BAS platforms charge for the software three ways β the engineering tool seat, per-point capacity licenses, and annual maintenance. The K1 platform charges for none of them.
| Legacy BAS platforms | BTM K1 Platform | |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering tool | Licensed seat, typically $1,500β$5,000 + certification course | K1 Workbench β free, included with every controller |
| Point capacity | Per-point / device-count license tiers, upgrade fees | Unlimited. Points are just data. |
| Operator station | Separate supervisor license or cloud subscription | K1 Supervisor built into every controller β included |
| Annual maintenance | 18β22% of license value, every year, or updates stop | Firmware & software updates included |
| Vendor independence | Proprietary tooling, dealer channels, vendor lock-in | Debian Linux, documented REST API, Haystack & Brick export |
You pay for hardware and legitimate certifications. The software is the product's nervous system β not a hostage. No cost. No licensing. No expiration.