M-Series Workstation Sales Resource Manual 641

Product Bulletin Section

Product Bulletin
Issue Date 1000

M5 Workstation

Comprehensive networked information

management. That’s how the M5 Workstation
assists you in managing your enterprise.
Leveraging the power and flexibility of the
Metasys system integrating architecture, the
M5 Workstation provides a personal command
center to easily manage the most diverse and
demanding facility management system. Through
its high performance graphical interface, operator
interactions to manage environmental comfort,
energy usage, lighting control, response to
emergency conditions, optimize control strategies,
and more can be done quickly and easily.
The M5 Workstation enhances user productivity,
maximizes your facility management investment
and is adaptable to address the dynamic
management needs of your enterprise.
Figure 1: M5 Workstation

Features and Benefits

❑ Standard Based Incorporates current and leading technology
Architecture standards for compatibility and growth

❑ Scalable Workstation Runs on standard Personal Computer (PC)

Architecture and supports Windows 98 and
Windows NT

❑ Personalized Graphical Provides easy to use, flexible screen layout,

Interface versatile navigation, accommodates operator
instructions

❑ Consistent Interface to Provides easy to learn, common presentation

Integrated Systems format, application integration

❑ World Class Dynamic Color Quickly view operations through information

Graphics based on displays

❑ Versatile Trend Sampling, Accommodates effective decision making

Storage, and Analysis

❑ Focus Windows, Provides tools for powerful analysis

Summaries, and Reports

❑ Advanced Alarm Reduces maintenance expenditures

Management

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F lexible Connectivity
The M5 Workstation provides the flexibility to Multiple connections are especially useful when
interface to your Metasys Network enterprise controlling a large campus, office complex, or a
facility management system through multiple diverse enterprise with several remote locations.
connectivity options. M5 Workstations This centralized monitoring, control, and reporting
communicates over a Local Area Network (LAN), capability not only maximizes your investment, it
which may be Ethernet TCP/IP based or also facilitates the productivity of your employees.
ARCNET based using the Johnson Controls N1 Regardless of how the M5 Workstation is
protocol and/or Ethernet TCP/IP using the
connected to your Metasys Network, your
BACnet protocol. Remote connection is through operators have full and total access to all system
dedicated lines or through dial-up communication information, restricted only by their password
links using standard RS-232 connections. Each rights.
Metasys Network can accommodate multiple
M5 Workstations simultaneously accessing
information. In fact, a single M5 Workstation can
be configured to simultaneously communicate with
up to five separate Metasys N1 Networks and up
to two BACnet sites using a combination of LAN,
direct, or dial-up connections.

Operator Workstation

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Figure 2: N1 Network

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W orkstation Platform M anaging Perspective
The M5 Workstation runs on a standard personal Within the M5 Workstation resides the ability to
computer utilizing the Microsoft Windows 98 or customize the look and feel of the user’s interface.
Windows NT operating system. By focusing on Through a dynamic runtime Screen Manager,
prevalent business world standards, the users can quickly and easily create, modify, or
M5 Workstation offers superior performance and recall multiple screen layouts with a few simple
future adaptability to advances in the operations. Through user populated templates,
microcomputer industry. you can simultaneously display multiple aspects of
your enterprise. For example, your staff could
Each workstation also accommodates various concurrently view and interact with a central chiller
printers to log alarms and for hardcopy recording plant graphic, the supply system graphic with
of information based reports and summaries.
integral trending, a focal Variable Air Volume
Please consult with your authorized
(VAV) graphic, and the trended environmental
Johnson Controls representative regarding
conditions of leased space to address a tenant’s
recommended platform configuration details.
complaint. This multitasking information composite
increases your staff’s productivity by reducing
I ntuitive Interface search time for pertinent displays, reduces the
learning time for new staff, and enhances the
Designed to be easy to learn and use while still analysis of operational conditions—simply,
providing advanced capabilities, the accurately, and effectively.
M5 Workstation provides users with a personal
Not only can you view more information on a
command center. Through dynamic graphical
screen, you can also integrate additional popular
displays of your facility’s various areas and
third-party software applications to enhance your
integrated systems, your operators easily and
managing perspective. Dynamic integration of
confidently access and review the current
third-party applications such as spreadsheets,
operational conditions of your entire enterprise.
word processing, and engineering related software
Graphical mouse-driven navigation allows packages offers an unparalleled degree of
operators to move smoothly through its intuitive personal command center flexibility. This
design. Using interface concepts such as toolbars, multitasking integration is further enhanced since
“point and click” and “drag and drop,” minimize an these third-party software applications can access
operator’s need to memorize and type command realtime and historical information from the
formats, letting them focus on pertinent facility Metasys Network such as point values, trend, and
operations. Since selections are processed totalization data. This means you can prepare
rapidly, access and retrieval of information gets custom energy usage reports that contain
done with minimal effort. Even detailed information up-to-the-minute consumption and operating costs
such as trend graphs, focus windows, schedules, and display them with the related enterprise
trend logs, sequence of operation, diagnostic equipment.
instructions, and more are all just a few clicks
For those instances when a single, larger monitor
away. The M5 Workstation’s simple, quick
is just not enough, the M5 Workstation Screen
navigation delivers smooth transitions between
Manager encapsulates multiple monitors into a
and within applications. Plus, a convenient current
single, manageable entity. Therefore, if the
alarm event viewer provides a dedicated area to
workstation operating system supports multiple
display messages that require immediate user
monitors, the M5 Workstation Screen Manager
attention.
templates are applied as if all monitors were
Your operations staff will find the M5 Workstation one physical entity.
even more powerful as they utilize its full
Your facility operators will quickly master the
capabilities. The understandable format requires
M5 Workstation, making full use of its unparalleled
no special programming skills, reducing operator
capabilities. This means that your enterprise
training needs. It encourages system utilization
realizes the full benefits of the Metasys system
and productivity, lowering overall operational
promise—comfort and safety for your occupants,
costs. And since your operators interact with your
higher productivity from your staff, and lower
entire dynamic, integrated network, it's the natural
operating costs for your facility.
edge to greatly enhance the performance of your
enterprise.

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 Figure 3: Screen Manager

L ogical Architecture
The Metasys Network uses an object-oriented Sensor data is grouped by logical systems; there
software architecture distributed throughout the is never a need for an operator to remember
network. This allows an operator at an where sensors are physically wired into the
M5 Workstation to simultaneously gather Metasys Network. Software feature information is
information from anywhere on the network and shown with its associated points, facilitating the
consolidate it into facility-wide reports for realtime analysis of operational conditions. Plus, the
viewing. All of your facility’s equipment is logically object-oriented software architecture and various
organized and displayed in dynamic graphical applications easily allow an operator to create
displays. These displays can be textual based, special logical associations to view information
animated graphics, operational trend perspectives, from the appropriate perspective.
and other visually orientated displays to name a
few. Information is right where you expect to
find it.

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N etwork Explorers
Navigating anywhere in your integrated Metasys For those systems that integrate both N1 and
system is easy. And figuring out how to get there BACnet controllers, M-Explorer provides a
is even easier, thanks to the explorer capability of common viewer that allows a user to easily
the M5 Workstation. browse through the BAS hierarchy to view and
analyze realtime operating conditions of an
integrated BAS.

Figure 4: M-Explorer

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M-Explorer provides a multi-panel display for
users to point and click their way through the
system. The main navigation panel, the Tree View,
allows users to expand and shrink the display of
the system’s hierarchy. The hierarchy is
represented through branch items, which reflect
the higher level details of a system, such as
servers, networks, sites, floors, controllers,
objects, groups, and applications. An associated
Focus panel displays the contents of the selected
Tree View item in greater detail.
Two selectable views are provided within the
Focus panel. The Detail View provides a column
format list, which highlights an object’s name,
description, value, status, and a user defined Figure 5: Network Map
label. The alternate Icon View provides a more
graphical display with user-defined label, value Finding your way to the desired information is
and status attributes as the prominent display simply a matter of using the mouse to point to a
characteristics. particular area, floor, or piece of equipment and
clicking the button. Besides accessing information
To proactively assist in identifying those areas that within the Metasys system, users have the ability
need a little more user focus, M-Explorer provides to quickly access other components, such as
dynamic realtime color coding to indicate an M-Graphics, M-Trend, Screen Manager, and other
object’s status condition. This special color coding data visualization applications directly from the
is displayed in the Focus panel in both the Detail Metasys Network Map. It is not necessary to
and Icon views. While this coding is predefined, it “drive” through a time-consuming series of
can be modified to match individual preferences. screens to view the desired information, because
Through color coding, you can easily pinpoint an any level of information is easily accessible from
object that is in an alarm, reached a warning this single graphical display. Simply “point and
range, has been overridden, or offline due to a click” using drop-down menus, toolbar icons, right
communication problem. mouse context sensitive menus, or “double click”
Your facility operators will quickly master using for quick, detailed penetration. The Metasys
M-Explorer in managing daily operations. Since Network Map is one of the most powerful tools
M-Explorer reads any OLE for Process Control provided through the personal command center.
(OPC) data server, it provides a common interface
for operators to view the status of a facility even
with a mixture of supervisory controllers
throughout your enterprise.
For Metasys N1 networks, then the venerable
Network Map explorer provides an alternative
hierarchical representation of the entire integrated
system. Like M-Explorer, the Network Map is
launched from the Screen Manager Command Bar
and presents a logical perspective of your N1
networks in a tree format similar to M-Explorer.
Operators see the entire facility management
system at a glance—which systems serve which
buildings and floors, which zones are served by
different mechanical systems, how third-party
subsystems are integrated, etc.

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M -Graphics Advantage
Through the world class dynamic, animated color Graphics
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simple and quick. For example, using these AHU

high-resolution dynamic color graphics, an
operator may view the digital photographic image
of the outside of a building, click on the identified
problem area to quickly penetrate to the particular
floor to view all current information.
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Besides the ability to navigate to anywhere, your
users can command the status and value of
objects, launch detailed focus windows, access an
object’s schedules, view totalization records, and
other application parameters. Graphics can have
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realtime trending embedded, integrating a
graphic1
powerful analysis tool. Furthermore, reviewing a
system’s sequence of operation, diagnostic
Figure 6: Outside Building guidelines or a detailed equipment drawing are all
just a click away.
Once the operator has analyzed the situation, the
operator can strategically interact with the graphic
display to make any necessary adjustments to
resolve the problem and restore optimal
operational performance.

AHU

Figure 8: AHU

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Your M-Graphics performance integration can be Reinforcing the performance perspective, the
extended to launch popular third-party software Metasys Network is designed to offer not only
applications; such as a spreadsheet calculating instantaneous access to current conditions, but
energy consumption and efficiency reports, trigger also a historical perspective. Through the Metasys
a Visual Basic application to initiate a custom Point History feature, the network can
control strategy, and much more. Performance automatically collect a historical trend for every
integration—limited only by your creativity. point in the system, without any special
programming or setup. Point History continuously
records the values of the previous 24 hours,
sampled every 30 minutes, for all analog input
points. For binary input, binary output and analog
output points, the last ten status changes are
saved, including information regarding operator or
feature issued changes. This information not only
assists in fine tuning a system, but is also a
valuable resource to identify potential problems
before they occur. If a problem does occur, Point
History can assist in analyzing the conditions that
led up to the situation.
When a user needs to interact with a BACnet
supervisory controller, they can easily launch
M-Inspector to view specific object details, interact
by sending commands, and even modify
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associated object attributes online. Since
M-Inspector is a tabbed dialog application, the
Figure 9: Third Party Application
tabs that appear depend on the type of object that
is selected.

F ocused Perspective
While the operation of your facility is usually
reviewed through various graphical displays that
represent groups of points, such as floor plans or
mechanical systems, it is sometimes necessary to
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Point Focus window and associated Point History
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Through the Metasys Point Focus window, an
operator “zooms” in on specific information related
to any point in the network. This dynamic history

information includes current realtime value,

Figure 10: Point History
associated setpoint and deadband, current alarm
status, and other associated operational
parameters. In addition, the Point Focus Window
displays a point’s value as a dynamic current trend
graph, providing another perspective on actual
performance.

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A dvanced Trend Analysis
Through the M-Trend component, trend views Trend data sources can be from buffered trend
provide a powerful management tool to analyze logs in supervisory controllers, snapshot
a breadth of historical operational characteristics collections configured and managed by the
of a facility. Through tabular or graphical trend operators and N1 Point History data. In all
views, a user can review any combination of cases, data is automatically and periodically
data sources from an integrated database. archived into a single or multiple data historians.
Graphical displays can be single or stacked
Trend Logs running in controllers are usually
graphs with selectable display characteristics.
configured to track necessary operational
Plus, operators have quick access to detailed
conditions on a continuous basis. For those
trend source focus window information and
special, temporary situations where a faster
zooming of any graphical display for precise
sampling rate is required, two special sampling
analysis.
applications are available.
While Metasys software manages the collection
First, an operator can initiate a snapshot
of trend source data from its integrated
collection that is managed by the
networks, the M5 Workstation offers multiple
M5 Workstation. This user configured data
methods to archive this pertinent information.
collection determines the data sources and
sampling rate to track special situations.

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Second, for those N1 data sources that use Point No matter which method is used to collect data
History data samples, an alternative Fast-scan (buffered, snapshot, or fast-scan), the methods
mode is provided for populating the database. can be archived together and combined in
Fast-scan sampling will occur whenever M-Trend views for analysis. Through use of M-
designated Point History data sources go into an Trend, a user can optimize energy consumption,
alarm state. During Fast-scan, sampling is done at diagnose potential problems before they occur,
the users specified scan interval. The user can and reduce maintenance costs.
also specify the maximum number of sources that
may be in the Fast-scan mode at any one time.
Not only can your operators view conditions S ophisticated Alarm Management
leading up to the alarm state, they can also view Because all alarms that occur in a facility don’t
operational characteristics at an increased rate deserve the same attention, you need a system
during this critical condition keeping them informed that allows your operators the ability to interact
of critical operations. accordingly. Plus, since different types of alarms
are only important to certain operators, you need a
system that can selectively direct various alarms
to different workstations anywhere on the network
– even to those remotely connected via a dial-up
modem.

Figure 12: M-Alarm Event with Report View

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 S ystem Programming
Welcome to M-Alarm, a sophisticated alarm The operator can use the M5 Workstation to
reporting and management tool designed to assist prepare applications and define databases
your staff in the management of this critical through the various tools associated with your
function. integrated Metasys Network. Network
configuration, point addition, control loop
M-Alarm works for you, ensuring that when critical
definition, application parameter setting, energy
conditions occur, they are routed to the
management strategies and more may all be
appropriate locations for immediate notification.
performed online using these tools.
Through a Current Events Viewer, an operator can
quickly scan the most recent condition reported for
any object in your integrated system. An operator
can easily acknowledge conditions and where
supported, add comments/annotations as to what
P assword Protection
was done to rectify the situation. And since To minimize the chance of unauthorized use of the
M-Alarm is configurable, you can easily have all M5 Workstation, network security is provided
conditions within a single viewer, or segregate the though a multilevel password access feature.
types of alarms—such as Heating, Ventilating, and Based on the clearance level assigned by the
Air Conditioning (HVAC) and security—into building manager or owner, each user has a
separate views while still displaying them together personal profile on how they interact with the
on the same Screen Manager layout. integrated network system. This profile determines
what building equipment, points, and commands
M-Alarm also provides a logger to log/archive all
they can interact with, when they can access the
conditions and related operator actions. Through
system and other user characteristics. And
an associated viewer, operators can view the
because the operator only sees those items and
historical record of all conditions recorded and run
commands to which they have access to,
special reports to assist them as they analyze the
Password actually adds to the simplicity of the
sequence of events.
interface as well as ensures its security.
Two views can be selected for historical reports.
The Metasys Network can also provide valuable
The Data version provides a textual perspective in
documentation regarding operator activity. By
a column format in either a detailed or summary
saving all transactions in the workstation, the
format. The Chart version provides a graphical
system allows managers and users access to a
perspective in bar or pie chart showing how many
quick and convenient review of how equipment
alarms of each type are currently archived.
was controlled, when alarms were acknowledged,
These graphical perspectives are very helpful in
when setpoints were changed, etc.
determining which areas of a facility are not
operating at optimal conditions. Password access is consistent across the entire
Metasys Network. Operators use the same
password and have the same clearance
regardless of which workstation they are using to
F ull Complement of Summaries access the network
Keeping track of a facility’s operations
encompasses more than just monitoring alarm
conditions. Through the M5 Workstation, a
comprehensive complement of summaries and
C onclusion
reports are automatically provided to assist in The M5 Workstation combines the best industry
managing your operations. Summaries that focus standard hardware and software with
on particular areas or equipment, those related to Johnson Controls 100-plus years of control
specific status conditions (alarm, off normal, experience to create an easy-to-learn and use, yet
lockout, disabled, etc.), are feature associated powerful interface to the Metasys Network. With all
(Password, Scheduling, etc.) and various archive of these advantages, your decision couldn’t be
summaries are quickly and easily available. simpler—the M5 Workstation and the integrating
Metasys Network are the perfect solution to assist
you in managing the needs of your dynamic
enterprise.

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S pecifications
Recommended PC 500 MHz Pentium III class Personal Computer (PC), particularly if using M-Tool
Platform on the same PC.
(166 MHz Pentium class PC minimum)
Operating System Window 98 Second Edition, or Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6 or higher
Memory 128 Mb recommended for Windows 98; (64 Mb minimum for Windows 98)
256 Mb recommended for Windows NT; (128 Mb minimum for Windows NT)
Hard Disk 8 Gigabyte (GB)
If running System Tools and M5 Workstation on the same PC, we recommend that
you have 500 Mb of free space on the hard drive for virtual memory.
CD-ROM Minimum 4x for loading software
Monitor Recommended 17 in. monitor with 1024 x 768 minimum resolution
Video Memory Minimum 2 Mb VRAM
Workstation Modem for Hayes Accura 2400 baud or
Remote Panel Unit Hayes Smartmodem OPTIMA 9600 baud
Communications
M-Components Memory Access Historian 5 Mb M-Trend 15 Mb
Required M-Authorize 4 Mb M-Explorer 6 Mb
M-Collector 5 Mb M-Alarm 51 Mb
M-Password 6 Mb BACnet OPC Server 5 Mb
M5 Workstation Memory M5 Master 1 Mb N1 Trend Collector 1 Mb
Required N1 OPC AE Server 5 Mb N1 OPC Server 5 Mb
Screen Manager 2 Mb
M5 Component 1.1 5 Mb
Agency Compliance FCC Part 15, Subpart J, Class A
UL 916
CSA C22.2 No. 205
Agency Listings UL Listed and CSA Certified
Note: InfoPlus.21 requires:
• Windows NT with Service Pack 6 or higher
• 500 MHz Pentium based processor (200 MHz minimum)
• 128 Mb RAM
• 8 GB hard drive (4 GB minimum)
• 200 Mb virtual memory (75 Mb minimum)

The performance specifications are nominal and conform to acceptable industry standards. For application at conditions beyond
these specifications, consult the local Johnson Controls office. Johnson Controls, Inc. shall not be liable for damages resulting from
misapplication or misuse of its products.

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