HighByte Intelligence Hub is an Industrial DataOps solution specifically designed for the modeling, delivery, and governance of industrial data, providing the critical data infrastructure for Industry 4.0.

How are industrial companies managing their Industry 4.0 projects?

Manufacturers must digitally transform to remain relevant and competitive by improving operational efficiency, maximizing customer value, and continuously innovating. This requires sharing actionable information in the correct format with the right people, regardless of their position within the organization. However, breaking down the barriers between operations and the rest of the company is difficult and costly.

Pilot purgatory (getting stuck in a simple proof of concept that cannot be scaled to production) is extremely common, as 74% of manufacturers do not successfully scale Industry 4.0 use cases necessary for digital transformation. One reason this happens is that the current technology stack is composed of ad hoc custom code and point-to-point integrations: this is neither maintainable nor scalable.

Developing a corporate data architecture to fully connect an industrial operation with its suppliers and customers (both internal and external) is challenging and becomes increasingly difficult over time.

What is Industrial DataOps?

DataOps (data operations) is the orchestration of people, processes, and technology to securely deliver reliable, ready-to-use data to everyone who needs it.

HighByte Intelligence Hub is an Industrial DataOps solution specifically designed to merge and model real-time, transactional, and time-series data into a single payload, delivering contextualized and correlated information to all applications that require it.

The software application allows industrial companies to securely connect, merge, model, and flow valuable industrial data to and from IT systems without the need to write or maintain code. With Intelligence Hub, users can accelerate system integration time, quickly leverage contextualized data for analytics, AI, and ML applications, and govern data standards across the entire enterprise.

Product Features

Code-Free Integration

Collect and publish data through open standards and native connections, eliminating the need for ad-hoc code integrations. Easily configure and manage multiple connections and their respective inputs and outputs within the interface without scripts. Merge data from multiple systems into a complexly modeled payload.

Data Conditioning

Allows for the collection of raw input data, conditioning it, and passing the conditioned data to instances or flows. Filter data through a deadband condition to reduce fluctuation in a source sensor. Filter data through aggregation to buffer higher-resolution data and provide statistical calculations using average, minimum, maximum, count, and delta at a slower rate to characterize the specified time period. Manipulate and transform raw input data into a usable format. Alerts for stale or poor-quality data.

Data Transformations

Use the integrated JavaScript-based transformation engine to standardize and normalize data for comparison and mismatch detection in applications. The transformation engine allows you to perform calculations, execute logic to define new «virtual» values, and decompose complex strings at the Edge to enhance data usability and reduce transmission volume.

Data Modeling

Represent machines, products, processes, and systems with intelligent data models tailored to your needs. Contextualize thousands of industrial data points by merging them with information from other systems, adding metadata, standardizing names and data attribute lists, and normalizing units of measurement. Model hundreds of common assets in minutes with inputs and instances using templates.

Connection Flows

Create flows for raw data, modeled information, or files at any frequency or event. Enable the store and forward function to buffer data on disk if the destination connection is lost. Manage data flows within HighByte Intelligence Hub by monitoring flow status and key metrics. View and receive alerts on connection and flow failures through Intelligence Hub, and easily monitor Intelligence Hub at scale using third-party system monitoring applications.

Data Pipelines

Use the graphical pipeline generator to organize complex data payloads for systems like Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage, and to track data transformation throughout the pipeline. The generator includes steps to read, filter, buffer, transform, format, and compress the payloads. Use the on-change stage to enable event-based delivery and exception reporting. Use the switch stage to introduce conditional logic into your flow. Preserve variables based on the event duration with state management capabilities.

MQTT Broker

Use the included MQTT broker, which is tightly integrated with Intelligence Hub’s core data contextualization and integration capabilities, to design a namespace that provides a real-time view of the company’s status. HighByte developed the broker from scratch, supporting MQTT v3.1.1 and v5. It supports JSON and Sparkplug payloads and can be quickly enabled through the user interface. The broker is a key component for rapidly creating a local unified namespace (UNS) within the factory.

UNS Client

Use the UNS client to visually discover and query the contents residing on any MQTT agent, eliminating the need for external test clients. Simply select a connection and instantly view the UNS. The UNS client can automatically detect and visualize message payloads, including JSON, Sparkplug, plain text, and raw binaries, and decode Protobuf to make Sparkplug payloads readable for users. In addition to inspecting topics and messages, the UNS client can also publish messages to topics.

REST Data Server

The REST data server acts as an API gateway for industrial data residing in OT systems, allowing any application or service with an HTTP client to securely request OT data in raw or modeled format directly from Intelligence Hub, without needing domain knowledge of the underlying systems. This API exposes Intelligence Hub’s connections, models, and instances, as well as the underlying values. Connect to the REST data server to access Intelligence Hub as a transactional request and response interface and programmatically explore the entire Industrial DataOps infrastructure.

Edge Deployment

Ejecute HighByte Intelligence Hub en livianas plataformas de hardware, incluidas computadoras personales, switches industriales, IoT gateways y servidores de datos industriales en el borde. Implementelo como una instalación de software individual o una imagen de Docker para actualizar rápidamente los componentes de software del sistema.

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