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Time to read: 6 minutes  Posted by John Harrington Ever since the first release of HighByte Intelligence Hub in 2020, HighByte has developed the solution to meet the industrial data integration needs of today’s industrial customers and tomorrow’s market requirements. The first version of the Intelligence Hub was a client-based application that collected and published contextualized data to any consuming system. As Industry 4.0 leaders began to integrate more systems and assets into their ecosystems, data consumers needed better data visibility and access. The consumers wanted to be able to see all available information, so they could access exactly what they needed. To deliver this visibility and access, we embedded an MQTT broker into the Intelligence Hub, giving administrators the necessary tools to build a Unified Namespace (UNS) that would allow consumers to easily subscribe to the information they desired.
With changing needs in mind, in May 2023, we took the next step in the evolution of the Intelligence Hub, adding the ability to request data on-demand through the Intelligence Hub with a built-in REST Data Server. This addition allows users to request time series, transactional, or master data from systems through a single, simple API. Time to read: 8 minutes Posted by John Harrington "We're not in Kansas anymore." In fact, we’re in Chicago at IMTS, the largest North American Industrial Technology show of the year, where we’re announcing the release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.5! The latest version has come a long way since its original release in early 2020. What began as a data hub for OPC to MQTT has evolved into an Intelligence Hub that truly lives up to its name. The Intelligence Hub satisfies real, complex business use cases and enables enterprise IT management of industrial data.
Manufacturers have realized that publishing 750,000 data tags (or even 75,000 data tags) straight to the cloud at a 1 second rate does not solve real business problems for the enterprise and often creates a data swamp. Instead, industrial data must be collected, transformed, aggregated, and delivered to the cloud as curated data payloads. In HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.5, we’ve provided unparalleled support for Microsoft Azure with the addition of Azure IoT Edge connectivity, support for Azure IoT Central, and the ability to import DTDL models from Azure Digital Twins. We’ve also also added support for third-party JavaScript functions, input cache management, instance referencing, and many more features to improve the coverage of more complex use cases that customers need to solve. As industrial data has become the major source of data for the broader business to drive improvement and new lines of revenue, the systems feeding the cloud for these initiatives must fall within the enterprise IT infrastructure. With the latest release of the Intelligence Hub, we’ve added support for Active Directory and improved ability to monitor and alert when data is bad or stale and when flow performance is poor. This post provides an overview of the release, highlighting new connectivity, monitoring, management, and advanced use case capabilities. Let’s take a look. Time to read: 9 minutes  Posted by Torey Penrod-Cambra It’s been inspiring to see the wide variety of ways customers are using HighByte Intelligence Hub to conquer Industry 4.0 use cases that previously seemed impossible. From creating contextualized electronic batch reports to improving first run yield, predicting asset maintenance, performing real-time analytics on UNS data, and gaining enterprise-wide performance visibility across multiple sites with different systems—customers are using the Intelligence Hub in increasingly more sophisticated ways.
With more sophisticated use cases comes the need for more sophisticated tools for scalability and connectivity in the Intelligence Hub. That’s why I am so excited to introduce HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.4. With new instance and input templates and parameters, global functions, custom conditions, OPC collection, and more, the latest release takes a giant leap forward in terms of scalability and data pipeline automation. I sat down with my friend and colleague John Harrington, Chief Product Officer at HighByte, to learn more about version 2.4 and what these new capabilities will mean for our customers. Time to read: 5 minutes Posted by Torey Penrod-Cambra The real value of Industry 4.0 is realized when manufacturers unlock the power of analytics. With the addition of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), organizations can transform raw data into predictive, meaningful insights.
But manufacturers must first overcome a structural barrier to connect their process historians with their analytical applications. This is where HighByte Intelligence Hub comes into play. The latest release of the Intelligence Hub extends connectivity from enterprise systems to historian and time-series database applications, including PI System and InfluxDB. It removes a major disconnect between operational technologies (OT) and the business systems where organizational leaders access the information to make strategic decisions. |
