Distributed historian architecture
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- distributing a common data structure that models an industrial organization across at least two system devices residing, respectively, on a first tier of the industrial organization and a second tier of the industrial organization, wherein the common data structure models the industrial organization in terms of hierarchical organizational tiers, including the first tier and the second tier, and respective nodes representing the at least two system devices; and
sharing data collection and storage functionality between an embedded historian component residing on an industrial device of the first tier of the industrial organization and a middle tier historian component residing on a device of the second tier of the industrial organization using the common data structure, wherein the sharing comprises exchanging a network message between the industrial device and the device of the second tier that initiates at least one of collection and storage of first data from the first tier of the industrial organization by the middle tier historian component or collection and storage of second data from the second tier of the industrial organization by the embedded historian component.
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Abstract
A distributed historian framework is provided where historical data is collected in accordance with an organizational model of a hierarchical system that is distributed across various elements of an enterprise. A directory service operates with the organizational model to enable configuration of historian components within the organization and to enable data to be located within the organization. In one aspect, an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes at least one historian component to archive data within an organization. A common data model then exposes functionality and data of the organization to the historian component.
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
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distributing a common data structure that models an industrial organization across at least two system devices residing, respectively, on a first tier of the industrial organization and a second tier of the industrial organization, wherein the common data structure models the industrial organization in terms of hierarchical organizational tiers, including the first tier and the second tier, and respective nodes representing the at least two system devices; and sharing data collection and storage functionality between an embedded historian component residing on an industrial device of the first tier of the industrial organization and a middle tier historian component residing on a device of the second tier of the industrial organization using the common data structure, wherein the sharing comprises exchanging a network message between the industrial device and the device of the second tier that initiates at least one of collection and storage of first data from the first tier of the industrial organization by the middle tier historian component or collection and storage of second data from the second tier of the industrial organization by the embedded historian component. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a computing system to perform operations, comprising:
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configuring an organizational data model that models an industrial organization as a set of hierarchical organizational levels and a plurality of nodes representing at least two system devices, wherein the organizational data model is distributed among the at least two system devices residing on at least two levels of the industrial organization defined by the organizational data model; and marking a data structure generated a first level of the at least two levels for historical collection by a first historian component residing on a first device, of the at least two system devices, located on the first level; wherein the marking facilitates collecting and storing of the data structure by the first historian component, and wherein the organizational data model facilitates exchange of messaging between the first device and a second device, of the at least two system devices, located on a second level of the at least two levels, the messaging transferring responsibility for the collecting and storing of the data structure to a second historian component residing on the second device. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A distributed historian communications method, comprising:
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defining a common data structure representing an organization in terms of multiple hierarchical tiers and respective nodes representing system devices of the organization; and distributing the common data structure among at least two of the system devices residing on at least two tiers of the multiple hierarchical tiers, wherein the at least two of the system components host respective data historian components; wherein the common data structure facilitates; collecting and storing, by a first data historian component executing on a first device of the system devices residing on a first tier of the at least two tiers, first data generated at the first tier, collecting and storing, by a second data historian component executing on a second device of the system devices residing on a second tier of the at least two tiers, second data generated at the second tier, and exchanging of a network message between the first device and the second device, wherein the network message initiates at least one of collection and storage of the first data by the second data historian component or collection and storage of the second data by the first data historian component. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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