Matrikon OPC Desktop Historian

A versatile, reliable, and easy-to-use tool for capturing network data
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Matrikon OPC Desktop Historian

A flexible, reliable and user-friendly solution for capturing data across your network.

Matrikon OPC Desktop Historian is a cost-effective, simple-to-install, configure, and manage data archiving tool. It is designed for time-based data storage, and can operate independently or as part of a larger enterprise data historian system. Built on Matrikon OPC’s Integrated Configuration (iC!) architecture, it offers comprehensive configuration management. You can combine multiple Desktop Historians for a distributed historian setup.
Desktop Historian stores OPC data and includes three main components:
Core, OPC Server, OPC Client

OPC Desktop Historian is perfect for archiving process data when you lack the time, resources, or budget for a full-scale enterprise historian. It’s as simple as click-select-collect!

The diagram shows two instances of ODH running on the Target Machine (in the center). Using History Link (HL), this setup can manage data synchronization between two different Enterprise Historians (Honeywell PHD and OSI Pi) and their remote buffers/historians.

Instance 1 of ODH with HL gathers data from ODHs in New York City and Boston, then sends it to the Honeywell PHD (the central 'Hub' Historian). This setup is depicted as HUB and Spoke network 1.

Instance 2 of ODH collects data from ODHs in San Antonio and El Paso and sends it to the Pi Historian (the central 'Hub' Historian). This is shown as HUB and Spoke network 2.

The latest ODH version supports running multiple instances, allowing a single PC to manage several independent HUB and Spoke networks, providing a simpler and more cost-effective data movement solution without needing extra software.

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To fully utilize process automation data, you need to capture and access it for future analysis and reporting. Seamlessly access data from various servers, store it on local PCs, and transfer it to an enterprise historian as needed.

Features

  • The only historian you need for diverse local data capture needs
  • Can be used as a standalone historian or as a history buffer in large, distributed systems
  • Offers top features like multi-instance support, load balancing, and data transfer
  • Easy to install, configure, and deploy
  • Requires low maintenance and support

Historian features

  • Supports multiple instances of ODH, allowing you to create several ODH Multi-Instance Utilities
  • Supports multiple instances of History Link, enabling creation of multiple History Link Multi-Instance Utilities
  • Can be set up as a standalone or Hub and Spoke system with the History Link option

Performance data

ODH configured with 10K tags – 10K tags/sec gets archived (meets standard performance criteria)
ODH configured with 15K tags – 15K tags/sec gets archived (meets standard performance criteria)
ODH configured with 20K tags – 20K tags/sec gets archived (No loss of data expected; Typically, we consider archiving values 1 sample/ sec per tag for a max of 15K tags; When we raised the tag count > 15K, noticed the delay in archiving of samples)

Offerings

  • High functionality at the cost of an OPC HDA driver
  • Simple configuration
  • Easy deployment
  • Compliance with OPC DA and OPC HDA standards
  • Minimal maintenance

OPC Data Collection Tool

The built-in OPC client collects data from any OPC DA server. The integrated OPC server lets you use any OPC client software to view the data in Desktop Historian. The Core serves as the storage area within Desktop Historian for the OPC server to access data. Data is both collected and accessed via OPC. Matrikon OPC Desktop Historian is a standards-compliant product that works with any OPC solution to provide a top-quality system.