Key Features of Web Trend
With OAS Web Trend, you can display real time and historical trend data in an interactive or animated graphical format on any device with a web browser.
By utilizing standard, platform-agnostic technologies such as HTML5, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, and JSON, web developers can create useful graphical representations of their data for operator dashboards, reporting, and analysis.
- Compatible with ALL browsers on Mac, PC, Linux, and mobile devices capable of displaying HTML5 and executing JavaScript, including: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer (8+, 9+ recommended), Mobile Safari and Chrome on iOS, Mobile browsers on Android
- Utilizes open standards for HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS
- Unique markup option quickly adds live data to existing HTML pages
- Programmatic JS interface allows for advanced application UI development
- Can run on ANY web application platform that generates or delivers HTML including: ASP.NET and .NET MVC, PHP, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, Static HTML sites like WordPress …and more!
- Supports authentication and secure communications over SSL
- Requires no plugins, Java applets, or ActiveX controls to execute; just point your browser to your web application to start
- Requires no compilation or packaging for deployment; supports file copy deployment or integration with your own deployment methods
- Real time data delivered directly to your browser, reducing load on your web application server
NOTE: If you want to visualize your data in a desktop or mobile browser with zero programming, you may be interested in the OAS Open UIEngine .
The UIEngine is a robust no-code web application and HMI builder for developing rich user interfaces in a browser-based development environment.
See the UIEngine Documentation to learn more.
Platform Components
Getting Started with Web Trend
Getting started with Web Trend is as simple as including the Javascript reference libraries on a web page along with some small code snippets to configure trend point rendering and to process incoming data streams.
Live Demo
View a live example at www.opcweb.com
Utlizes Open Source Technologies
Built upon open source platforms such as JQuery and HTML5, OAS Web Trend also allows for programmatic data access of raw data to be applied to any number of free HTML5 charting solutions.
Sample code includes charts from the popular library Flot (www.flotcharts.org), but Web Trend is also compatible with ChartJS (www.chartjs.org), Chartist.js (gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js) and others.
Web Trend supports user interface development on any web platform such as ASP.NET, .NET MVC, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Java, and more.
Web Trend is also available as a Module within the Web HMI Dashboard
Built upon Web HMI, the Web HMI Dashboard allows you to quickly and securely visualize your data within a browser interface. Features include:
- Give you access to real time and historical data on any device using a web browser
- Desktop PCs
- Mobile devices
- Provides secure access to your data in any browser
- Modular design includes components for visualizing:
- Numeric data in radial gauges
- Boolean data as interactive switches
- Live, raw tag data in tabular format
- Real time and historical Alarms
- Real time and historical Trends
- Your own custom views and external web pages
