AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure: a Solution for Hybrid Data Management in Industrial Operations

Discover data without limits, without the restrictions of information silos, the need to invest in costly infrastructure, or navigating organizational barriers. Goals that in the past might have seemed ambitious, but are now perceived as a reality thanks to AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure.

AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure: the operations data solution trusted by both engineers and IT professionals

Industrial operations produce a lot of valuable data in plant system environments, remote sites outside the main control network, mobile assets, and IIoT devices. Increasingly, employees outside the plant are using this data to improve efficiency and sustainability, increase asset reliability, drive AI algorithms, and collaborate with external partners and service providers in real time.

In light of this, AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure allows a large number of users, both inside and outside the company, to access high-quality operational information in real time.

More specifically, as an integrated and hybrid solution, AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure can be used to collect, enrich, visualize, and share operations data anywhere it may be relevant: at remote sites, within multiple operating plants, in the cloud, and with a community of trusted users.

Key Features of AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure

To facilitate the deployment of a hybrid industrial data infrastructure, AVEVA now offers a single software subscription that provides access to the features you need to centrally manage data from remote, plant-wide, and cloud data sources. These features are:

Access to data across the enterprise

Access and act on real-time data, even when it comes from geographically distant locations. Leverage the capabilities of AVEVA Edge Data Store: software to collect, store, and access data from sensors, IIoT devices, mobile assets, and other sources outside your main control network. Deploy this lightweight, cross-platform software on low-cost Windows or Linux devices.

Vendor-independent data collection

Connect to any data source, regardless of vendor, location, or environment. AVEVA provides a comprehensive set of standard interfaces, connectors, and adapters to enable automatic collection of high-volume, high-fidelity data.

High-volume data storage and processing

Collect, enrich, and process time-series operations data using the proven, high-performance capabilities of AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure. Much more than a data historian, AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure can store and process huge volumes of data in real time, historical and predictive, clean, transformed, and contextualized.

Scalability in the cloud and easy access to data from anywhere

Use, share, and analyze operations data in the cloud by leveraging AVEVA™ Data Hub SaaS services from the AVEVA™ Connect cloud platform. Aggregate data from multiple sites, provide users outside the plant with access to real-time data views, and securely share selected data with trusted business partners and service providers.

Visualization across the ecosystem

Leverage the capabilities of AVEVA Connect, with visualization services to create custom data views and dashboards that combine operations data with information from engineering or manufacturing execution systems (MES). Visualization in Connect complements the capabilities of AVEVA™ PI Vision™, the self-service tool for visualizing data from the AVEVA PI system.

What Benefits Does AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure Bring?

As you may have deduced from the functionalities mentioned, this solution comes loaded with benefits, such as the capabilities of:

1. Consolidating operational data: allows you to automatically collect and store large volumes of data from hundreds of industrial systems and sensors, including remote and mobile assets, and IIoT devices.
2. Creating real-time dashboards and reports, thanks to securely sharing selected data through web applications with trusted users inside and outside the company.
3. Leveraging specialized applications: operating with historical and real-time data allows you to instantly scale it and easily integrate it with other specialized applications.
4. Integrating OT data into the business, that is, seamlessly transferring data from the plant to business applications for decision-making, as needed.
5. Validating and operationalizing insights, collecting data generated by Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and other analytics and business applications.

The AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure solution strikes a balance in an Industry 4.0 where, on the one hand, access to field data is essential for informed decision-making and continuous improvement, and on the other, access is increasingly protected. Its capabilities to collect, store, contextualize, and visualize field data in an integrated, secure, and exploitable manner lead to improved efficiency and productivity in plants.