Contextualized data is essential for Industry 4.0. Deploy HighByte Intelligence Hub at the Edge to access, model, transform, and prepare plant floor data for analysis in the Cloud.
HighByte Intelligence Hub was built for the unique qualities of industrial data. The software securely connects devices, files, databases, and systems via open standards and native connections. Use the interface to model streaming data in real time, normalize and standardize data points and data models inherent to diverse machinery, and add context to data payloads that otherwise lack descriptions. Tap into real-time and asset model data from a variety of edge data sources, including machine data, transactional data, and time series (historical) data.
HighByte Intelligence Hub was designed for scale. Simplify and accelerate the modeling of tens of thousands of datapoints from PLCs and machine controllers with re-usable models that transform raw data into complex, useful information. Import and export template definitions to quickly replicate common datasets across assets. Efficiently deliver contextualized and correlated information to the applications that require it.
HighByte Intelligence Hub is an ideal solution for manufacturers and other industrial companies because the software was designed for Operational Technology (OT) teams. The platform-agnostic solution runs on-premises at the Edge, scales from embedded to server-grade computing platforms, and offers a code-free user interface. Administrators can network distributed Intelligence Hubs through a single management portal and deploy hubs without downtime.
Reduce system integration time from months to hours
Improve data curation and preparation for AI and ML applications
Scale operations metrics and analytics across the enterprise
Reduce information wait time for business functions
Eliminate time spent troubleshooting broken integrations
Empower operators with insights from the Cloud
Improve system-wide security and data governance
Meet system integrity and regulatory traceability requirements
Reduce Cloud ingest, processing, storage costs, and complexity
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Collect and publish data over open standards and native connections—eliminating the need for custom-coded integrations. Easily configure and manage multiple connections and their respective inputs and outputs within the script-free interface. Collect data from SQL and REST source systems using dynamic requests leveraging inputs from other systems. Quickly integrate data from specialty systems and devices. Merge data from multiple systems into a complex modeled payload.
Collect raw input data, condition the data, and pass conditioned data to instances or flows. Filter data through a deadband condition to reduce the jitter in a source sensor or measurement. Filter the data through an aggregate to buffer higher resolution data and provide statistical calculations using average, min, max, count, and delta at a slower rate to characterize the specified time period. Manipulate and transform raw input data into usable information. Alarm on bad quality or stale data.
Use the built-in transformation engine based on JavaScript notation to standardize and normalize data for comparison and application mismatches. The transformation engine enables you to perform calculations, execute logic to define new “virtual property” values, and decompose complex strings at the Edge to improve data usability and reduce transmission volume. Define global JavaScript functions or load third-party JavaScript or Node packages, then use them in any expression within the Intelligence Hub.
Represent machines, products, processes, and systems with key intelligent data models suited to your needs. Contextualize thousands of industrial data points by merging them with information from other systems, adding meta data, standardizing data attribute names and lists, and normalizing units of measure. Model hundreds of common assets in minutes with templatized inputs and instances.
Create data flows for raw data, modeled information or files between connections at any frequency or event. Enable store and forward to buffer data on disk if target connection is lost. Manage data flows within HighByte Intelligence Hub, monitoring flow state and key metrics. Trigger flows for any asset based on third-party templates. See and be alerted to connection and flow failures through the Intelligence Hub and easily monitor the Intelligence Hub at scale using third-party system-monitoring applications.
Use the graphical data Pipelines builder to curate complex data payloads for systems like Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage and track the transformation of data through the pipeline. The builder includes steps to read, filter, buffer, transform, format, and compress payloads. Use the on-change stage to enable event-based delivery and report-by-exception. Use the switch to introduce conditional logic to your flow. Persist variables according to the length of the manufacturing event with state management capabilities.
Use the embedded MQTT broker that’s tightly integrated with the Intelligence Hub’s core data integration and contextualization capabilities to design a namespace that provides a real-time view of the state of business. The MQTT v3.1.1 and v5 compliant broker was built from the ground up by HighByte. It supports both JSON and Sparkplug payloads and can be quickly enabled in the UI. The broker is a critical component to rapidly building a local unified namespace (UNS) inside the factory.
Use the UNS client to visually discover and interrogate contents residing in any MQTT broker, negating the need for external testing clients. Simply select a connection and instantly visualize the namespace. The UNS Client can automatically detect and visualize message payloads including JSON, Sparkplug, text, and raw binary, and decode Protobuf to make payloads human readable for Sparkplug users. In addition to topic and message inspection, the UNS Client can also publish messages to topics.
The REST Data Server acts as an API gateway for industrial data residing in OT systems, so any application or service with an HTTP client can securely request OT data in raw or modeled form directly from the Intelligence Hub—without requiring domain knowledge of the underlying systems. This API exposes the Intelligence Hub’s connections, models, and instances as well as the underlying values. Connect to the REST Data Server to access the Intelligence Hub as a transactional, request-and- response interface and programmatically browse the full Industrial DataOps infrastructure.
Run HighByte Intelligence Hub on your choice of light-weight hardware platforms including single board computers, industrial switches, IoT gateways, and industrial data servers. Deploy as an individual software installation or Docker image to rapidly deploy and upgrade system software components.
