The TDengine team is excited to announce an official integration with Kepware, an enterprise industrial connectivity solution from PTC that standardizes the secure and seamless movement of data between industrial devices and OT and IT systems. This integration represents a significant milestone in TDengine’s quest to break down data silos and enable innovative applications across industries, delivering a wealth of new opportunities in automation and digital transformation.
The combination of Kepware’s ability to access data from a vast range of industrial devices with TDengine’s high-performance, scalable data storage system offers industrial enterprises an efficient, streamlined solution for storing and managing operations data in a unified manner across any number of sites, systems, and platforms. Adding Kepware to the TDengine ecosystem combines an innovative database solution and Kepware’s industry-leading connectivity, helping enterprises uncover new business insights and reap the benefits of the IIoT.
About Kepware
Kepware is a portfolio of industrial connectivity solutions that connect disparate legacy OT devices with software applications. Utilizing a scalable, unified architecture, Kepware provides the flexibility to combine drivers and consume multiple protocols in a single server, while offering a streamlined interface for remote visualization and connectivity configuration at scale.
About TDengine
TDengine is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome the challenges of Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT. It enables real-time ingestion, storage, analysis, and distribution of petabytes of data per day, generated by billions of sensors and data collectors. By making big data accessible and affordable, TDengine helps everyone — from independent developers and startups to industry stalwarts and multinationals — unlock the true value of their data.
Ingest Data from Kepware
You can use the zero-code OPC UA connector in TDengine to easily ingest device data being collected, aggregated, and normalized by Kepware.
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Log in to TDengine Enterprise or TDengine Cloud and create a new Data In task.
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Give the task a unique name and set its type to OPCUA.
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Specify a database to ingest data from Kepware, or create a new database.
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Under Connection Configuration, enter the information for your Kepware server.
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Click Check Connection. If the message “Your data source is reachable” is displayed, this indicates that TDengine can connect to your Kepware server over OPC UA.
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Under Data Sets, click the Namespaces drop-down list and select the namespaces containing the data that you want to ingest. This list is automatically populated when you connect to Kepware.
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Click Preview next to Point Name. This displays all data points that match the current criteria.
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Fill in the Root node ID, Point ID, and Point Name fields to match the data points that you want to ingest. You can refer to the previewed data in the previous step to find these items.
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Define the supertable and subtable names for the ingested data.
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Under Collect, specify the desired collect mode and point update mode.
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Click Save & Apply.
A data in task has now been created to ingest data from Kepware to TDengine over OPC UA. You can open Explorer in TDengine and view the data being ingested in real time.
- If you are a Kepware customer interested in new options for storing time-series data, contact us to learn more about how TDengine can enhance your data infrastructure.
- If you are a TDengine customer looking for industrial device connectivity solutions, visit the Kepware website to learn more.
