Extract and Publish Data Into Ignition

Get maximum, bi-directional interoperability between Ignition by Inductive Automation and HighByte Intelligence Hub with the Ignition Module.

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Ignition Module

Ignition by Inductive Automation is a leading SCADA and IIoT Platform deployed by many HighByte Intelligence Hub users. Ignition may be used as a SCADA for real time monitoring and control of machines and processes and/or as an IIoT platform to build advanced visualizations and web-based applications for a broader purpose. Depending on these usage patterns, Ignition can be a data source or a data destination for the Intelligence Hub, allowing users to connect to and model data from a diverse array of telemetry, transactional, time series, and file-based data sources for Ignition.

The Ignition Module for HighByte Intelligence Hub provides unmatched connectivity with the Ignition platform. The native integration unlocks new capabilities not possible with existing approaches such as OPC UA or MQTT / Sparkplug. Use the Ignition Module to build a scalable architecture, orchestrate data modeling and governance across your manufacturing sites, and easily integrate this leading SCADA and IIoT platform into your enterprise data strategy.

“HighByte Intelligence Hub is crucial to our industrial data strategy. It allows us to break down silos and deliver structured data into a unified namespace. The native integration with Ignition changes the game, allowing for greater scalability and faster deployments across our operations to drive digital transformation.”

Brent Wassell, Principal IT Business Analyst at McNeilus, an Oshkosh Corporation Business

Video Tutorials

The Ignition Module in HighByte Intelligence Hub

Watch HighByte CTO Aron Semle showcase the new Ignition Module in HighByte Intelligence Hub. Aron demonstrates how to install the module in Ignition and connect it to the Intelligence Hub. See Aron browse Ignition Tag Providers, read UDTs, and then send tags directly to Snowflake using the Intelligence Hub. Finally, Aron demonstrates how modeled data from PI System can be easily sent to Ignition, creating both UDTs and UDT instances in Ignition and replicating the PI System Asset Framework (AF) data.

MCP Enable Ignition with HighByte Intelligence Hub

This video demonstrates how to provide secure access to Ignition data to your AI Agents. See how using the new MCP Server available in HighByte Intelligence Hub—alongside tools like LibreChat and Google Gemini—makes it possible to communicate and set tasks for AI agents at the industrial edge. With the Industrial MCP Server and Ignition Module in HighByte Intelligence Hub, Aron Semle shows you how fast and easy it is to connect to Ignition, build specific tools for agents via Pipelines, and expose these tools to agents for AI use cases like alarming and ad hoc operator queries on asset and line performance.

IGNITION MODULE FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY

Use HighByte Intelligence Hub to complete the following tasks:

Extract data, including UDTs, with greater ease and control from Ignition as a SCADA platform

Design and govern a consumable unified namespace (UNS) for Ignition as an IIoT application platform

Create Ignition tag providers and build their contents, including tags and UDTs, in hierarchal form

Synchronize an Ignition tag provider with AVEVA PI System Asset Framework and other systems

Engineer data pipelines to and from Ignition with time series databases, cloud services, event stream platforms, file systems, relational databases, enterprise applications, and more

Natively browse, read, build, and write to Ignition gateways

Define and enforce enterprise data standards across multiple business units, sites, lines, assets, and vendors

Additional Resources

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HighByte + Ignition: Two powerful solutions in your modern data architecture

When paired together, Ignition and HighByte Intelligence Hub provide a robust approach to meet today’s industrial data access and management needs. Learn how in this blog post from HighByte Chief Product Officer John Harrington.

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Next-gen Industrial DataOps: Intelligence Hub version 4.0 is here

HighByte’s major release of version 4.0 of the Intelligence Hub introduced the next generation of Industrial DataOps capabilities. Among these, the Ignition Module deepens interoperability between the two industrial software products. Read this blog post to learn more about version 4.0 and the Ignition Module in HighByte Intelligence Hub.