Auto discovery of embedded historians in network
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1. An industrial automation system, comprising one or more processors executing the following components:
- a plurality of embedded historians that are distributed as part of a networked industrial automation system to collect data associated with the industrial automation system, wherein each of the embedded historians has a direct interface to at least one controller, and wherein the embedded historians are configured to self-identify upon the occurrence of a predetermined event;
a locator component that locates one or more embedded historians by employing a trail of metadata based at least on an identified data type of historian data to be collected;
an organizational hierarchy data model with nodes that represent units associated with the industrial automation system;
an artificial intelligence component that facilitates identification of data collected by the embedded historians;
a Human Machine Interface (HMI) to graphically display a view of the industrial automation system; and
a graphical user interface (GUI) that forms an application view of a historian data collection system, wherein the embedded historians are distributed as part of industrial units of an industrial plant and collect data across various levels of the industrial plant, and wherein historian functionality is shifted upwards or downwards between the levels based upon at least one of;
overloading at one or more levels, or a network message from another level.
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Systems and methods that facilitate discovery of history data via a locator component associated with a plant embedded historian(s) of an industrial programmer (e.g., a controller device.) Such locator component can further detect micro historians that are distributed on the back plane of an industrial network. The locator component can be part of applications running on a control unit, which can function as a management control center for the industrial network system. A common data model can be employed to expose functionality and data of the organization to the embedded historian component.
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1. An industrial automation system, comprising one or more processors executing the following components:
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a plurality of embedded historians that are distributed as part of a networked industrial automation system to collect data associated with the industrial automation system, wherein each of the embedded historians has a direct interface to at least one controller, and wherein the embedded historians are configured to self-identify upon the occurrence of a predetermined event; a locator component that locates one or more embedded historians by employing a trail of metadata based at least on an identified data type of historian data to be collected; an organizational hierarchy data model with nodes that represent units associated with the industrial automation system; an artificial intelligence component that facilitates identification of data collected by the embedded historians; a Human Machine Interface (HMI) to graphically display a view of the industrial automation system; and a graphical user interface (GUI) that forms an application view of a historian data collection system, wherein the embedded historians are distributed as part of industrial units of an industrial plant and collect data across various levels of the industrial plant, and wherein historian functionality is shifted upwards or downwards between the levels based upon at least one of;
overloading at one or more levels, or a network message from another level. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of locating embedded historians within an industrial plant comprising:
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collecting data using a plurality of embedded historians that are distributed as part of industrial units of the industrial plant, the collecting data comprising collecting historian data across various levels of the industrial plant; identifying a data type of data to be acquired; detecting at least one embedded historian that collects data of the identified data type using a locator hardware component that employs metadata to facilitate a trail to the embedded historian; defining a common organizational data model for the industrial plant; utilizing an artificial intelligence component to facilitate identification of data collected by the embedded historian; acquiring the data from the embedded historian; wherein if one or more of the levels become overloaded with the collection data, historian functionality is shifted upwards or downwards between the levels. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An industrial automation system, comprising:
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a plurality of embedded historians that are distributed as part of a networked industrial automation system to collect data associated with the industrial automation system and the embedded historians are configured to self-identify upon the occurrence of a predetermined event, wherein a subset of the embedded historians are plugged into a rack, at least one controller plugged into the rack, the rack having a backplane that communicatively couples the subset of the embedded historians with the at least one controller; and a locator component that detects embedded historians by communicating to the subset of embedded controllers through the controller and employing a trail of metadata based at least on an identified data type of data to be collected and assigns type of historian data for an industrial plant to be collected, wherein the embedded historians are distributed as part of industrial units of an industrial plant and collect data across various levels of the industrial plant, and wherein historian functionality is shifted upwards or downwards between the levels based upon at least one of;
overloading at one or more levels, or a network message from another level. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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