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Compare PI System with TDengine
This article compares TDengine and PI System to help you make informed decisions about your data management strategy.
Jeff Tao
October 19, 2026 | TDengine vs. PI System
How DJIN EMS Captures 35 Million Rows a Day with TDengine at the Grid Edge
Across three production energy sites, TDengine uses about 2% of one CPU core per appliance—leaving compute available for real-time control and local AI. At DJIN
Nick Hughes
October 14, 2026 | Case Studies, Energy
TDengine IDMP Opens the Industrial Data Layer
Industrial data rarely lives in one place. A plant may rely on a historian for process data, a relational database for asset or production information,
TDengine Team
October 7, 2026 | AI-Native Industrial Data Foundation
How a Factory Built an Industrial Alarm Management App with TDengine in Three Days
A chemical plant engineer without a formal software development background used an AI Agent and the TDengine IDMP SDK to build and deploy an industrial-grade
Arun Arulraj
September 28, 2026 | AI-Native Industrial Data Foundation, Data Historian
How Zendure Scaled Its Home Energy Platform to 1.17 Million Devices—and Cut Storage Costs by 80%
Introduction Zendure’s plug-and-play home energy management systems are backed by a home energy storage data platform. Its solar storage devices are used in more than
Arun Arulraj
September 11, 2026 | Case Studies
Wastewater Treatment: Tracing Effluent Exceedances to Root Causes
A municipal wastewater treatment plant runs an A2/O process (anaerobic-anoxic-oxic) with its effluent managed against a strict discharge limit. That standard caps suspended solids (SS)
Arun Arulraj
September 5, 2026 | Environmental
Environmental Monitoring: Tracing Wastewater and Emissions Exceedances
Every day the city ecological environment monitoring center keeps an eye on a large number of discharge outlets, with online monitoring data for COD, ammonia
Arun Arulraj
September 5, 2026 | Environmental
Aluminum Processing: Tracing Final Inspection Failures to Process Causes
Every plant making advanced aluminum products faces the same headache: final inspection rejects the product, and no one knows which process stage started the failure.
Arun Arulraj
September 5, 2026 | Manufacturing
Special Steel Production: Detecting Segregation and Cracking Risk
In smelting and hot rolling of high-end special steel such as premium bearing steel GCr15, a production line is no longer a simple stack of
Arun Arulraj
September 5, 2026 | Manufacturing
Specialty Paper Lines: Detecting Quality and Web-Break Risk
In specialty paper production (anti-counterfeit watermark paper, security paper), the paper machine is more than a large piece of machinery. It is a complex physical
Arun Arulraj
September 5, 2026 | Manufacturing
