Data Historians – Real-Time Data Capture

Modern data historians provide advanced capabilities that allow organizations to capture and access data from various sources. Not only collect events from machines and devices but also leverage AI to correlate machine and user data.

Powerful Capabilities

• Connectivity – Historians use standard protocols such as OPC and ODBC to easily integrate with data sources, including DCS, SCADA, PLC, and database systems
• Scalability: We can size historians based on the required scale and expand them as requirements evolve. Also historians can be configured to support hundreds of thousands of real-time data streams
• Performance: The data archive is optimized and can be captured based on exceptions (when data changes), deadband, or periodically. Retrieval performance is typically very fast, and access can be provided to enterprise systems or users
• Reliability – Historians use sophisticated technology to ensure data integrity and prevent loss during communication failures. Redundancy and failover capabilities are commonly implemented to ensure consistent system operation
• Management – Historians provide intuitive ways of managing data sources and tags along with system management tools for monitoring performance and processes
• Figurings—Historians let you set up figures that use information from one or more data sources

Proven Benefits

• Historians are a Big Data platform, allowing the storage and retrieval of millions of transactions over many years
• Fulfills regulatory requirements for data capture
• Cost-effective and efficient means for capturing vast amounts of data

Capstone has experience implementing industry-leading historians, including Capstone Dataparc, OSIsoft PI, Honeywell PHD, and Aspentech IP.21.