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Osisoft PI is the most used historian in the Oil&Gas industry. Having EdgeX needs to be capable to ingest data into such a platform is fundamental for its adoption in the industry.
Requirements
- Authenticate the edge node through standard OSI PI premises (Basic Authentication at minimum)
- Create new tags in PI Archive
- Edit existing tags in PI Archive
- High throughput data ingestion up to 10k events/second
- Ability to send data to multiple PI Nodes concurrently (up to 3)
- Local buffering and retry mechanism with resilience to network downtime
- Logging of message errors Local logging of error messages & events on through EdgeX Log service
Design
Two approaches are possible in order to implement this export service:
- Clone the current EdgeX REST export service and modify it accordingly to send messages to PI Web API
- Create an ad-hoc OMF connector in Go to to send messages to PI Connector Relay with OMF
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