Learn how to engineer our products

North believe learning gives engineers the best chance to deliver a quality system in the most efficient way. We offer a range of one-day tutored courses and self-study tutorials to help with your professional development, wherever you prefer to learn.

One-day courses

We offer a range of one-day courses at our offices in Brighton. Candidates can attend each course separately, on consecutive days, or in combination with our self-study tutorials and training pack.

A North engineer leads each course. They are highly knowledgeable about our products and have extensive practical experience.

Each course is seminar-based with a maximum of three attendees and makes use of practical examples. We also allocate time at the end of the day to answer any project-specific questions.

Each one-day course is priced per person. Fees include engineering software, lunch, and refreshments. Please note you will need to bring a Windows laptop to the course.

The training course programme runs every alternate week throughout the year. To check availability or reserve a space, please contact us.

This foundation one-day course gives you an introduction to North products. It teaches you how to provide simple integration between connected systems using Commander.

The course covers:

Introduction to Commander
ObSys engineering software
Commander hardware settings
Interfacing Commander to other systems
Introduction to Zip
Object references
Transferring values
Sharing values with BACnet and Modbus using Essential Data
Connecting Commander to a LAN
Local web pages
Commander Hub
Backing up and restoring the configuration
Updating Commander firmware

Building on the knowledge gained in the Integration course, this one-day course gives you the skills to create a cause-and-effect strategy and configure alarm handling modules using Commander.

The course covers:

Time control
ObVerse programming
Alarms events
Controlling access using the Security Server

This advanced one-day course gives you the skills to manage and display information from connected systems using ObSys. Learn how to create web graphics and use the advanced data-logging and alarm management applications.

The course covers:

Creating a web-based graphical user interface using WebView
Alarm management and archiving
Data logging and analysis
New site and device views using ObView

Self-study tutorials

Our self-study tutorials and accompanying training pack allow you to learn at your own pace. Use them in addition to our one-day courses, as a product refresher, or as a convienient alternative if you are unable to reach our offices in Brighton.

Each tutorial requires the training pack, which includes a Commander, two Zip modules, and access to ObSys engineering software. Contact us to purchase a training pack, then use the product tutorials detailed below to learn about our product range.

Commander Tutorial

This tutorial covers using Commander. It gives you the skills to provide simple integration, control, web pages, and alarm monitoring to connected systems.