Universal Data Connector & IIoT Gateway
The Universal Data Connector is at the core of the OAS Platform, providing seamless data connectivity and acting as a powerful IoT gateway. It enables the movement of data from PLCs, IoT hubs, applications, databases, and more.
Unlock Your Data’s Full Potential
The Universal Data Connector is a server-based, highly-scalable, network platform designed to transport and transform your data with ease.
Unlike solutions that lock data in proprietary formats and limit its usability, the OAS platform gives you full control. It’s built upon a single principle, to liberate your data and allow you to move it through your enterprise with speed and flexibility. As a reliable industrial IoT gateway, it ensures smooth, efficient data flow.
Once data sources are connected to the OAS Platform, data can be logged to infinite open databases for further analysis or storage. Each data point is monitored and can be transformed, or used to trigger alarms for real-time notification. Plus, developers can tap into a full suite of tools and APIs to build dynamic .NET, web, and mobile visualizations, making data more accessible and actionable than ever.
a server-based, highly-scalable, network platform that enables the transport and transformation of your data
Data HistorianAchieve fault-tolerant logging, zero data loss, and multi-destination storage with our high-performance Store and Forward technology.
Visualization ToolsBuild Visualizations, User Interfaces, and server configuration interfaces for .NET, web technologies, native iOS and Android mobile apps
Device & Data ConnectorsThe OAS Platform provides rapid communications and connectivity to a wide variety of PLCs, devices, and databases.
IoT ConnectorsConnect to cloud-base IoT gateways such as AWS, Azure IoT Hub, Azure Event Hubs, Kafka, and more.
Alarm Logging & NotificationCapture events on each data point, log to open formats for historical analysis and archiving, and trigger real time notifications
SDKs & APIsExplore a wide variety of Developer Tools and APIs to allow you to create applications and system integrations to execute in any environment.
Networking FeaturesOpen Automation Software implements edge computing with a Distributed Network Architecture.
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Data Connector
OAS supports a large library of Industry 4.0 data sources including Allen Bradley and Siemens PLCs, Modbus and MTConnect devices, OPC UA and DA Servers and Clients, Databases, applications, and more.
Performance and Scalability
Perfectly suited to Big Data solutions, each OAS server can process up to 1,000,000 data points. Each can connect up to 10,000 servers to each client, and up to 10,000 clients per server. The result is throughput of up to 100,000,000,000,000,000 data points per network. Transfer data over your LAN, WAN, Intranet, or the Internet with 100 nanosecond resolution!
Reliability and Failover
When deployed on the network with each data source, the OAS Universal Data Connector captures and buffers data, so when external network connectivity is intermittent or unreliable, no data is lost. Data is transmitted as soon as communications are reestablished. OAS servers can also be configured for failover, to achieve necessary redundancy.
Using the free Live Data Cloud feature, OAS servers can communicate with each other, relaying data without remote locations requiring a fixed IP address, allowing for data aggregation and remote monitoring.
Security
Service-to-service and service-to-client communications use TCP Communications with encrypted and compressed packets for low network usage and high speed. Unlimited security Users and Groups can be configured as well, to control granular access to each data point and even each attribute of each point, safeguarding your sensitive data.
Automated Configuration and Flexibility
Utilize programmatic setup of Tags, Driver Interfaces, Security Users and Groups, and more with .NET developer tools as well as through a REST API. This enables accelerated installations, and dramatically reduces the cost of multi-site deployments, allowing for rapid deployment of your data connectivity solutions.
Networking
The Universal Data Connector is built upon a Distributed Network Architecture, enabling robust Edge Computing IIoT solutions.
Transport Data Between Virtually Any Source
What data sources can the Universal Data Connector work with?
It connects to PLCs, databases, IoT hubs, applications, and more, using a variety of data and application connectors.
Can the OAS Platform handle large amounts of data?
Yes, OAS is built for scalability, processing up to 1,000,000 data points per server while supporting extensive network connections.
Does OAS support secure data transfer?
Yes, OAS uses TCP communications with encryption and compression to keep service-to-service and service-to-client communications secure.
Can OAS be customized?
Yes, with built-in APIs and SDKs, the OAS Universal Data Connector can be configured and set up programmatically within your own solutions.
REST API for read/write data operations as well as OAS configuration
.NET Components for desktop, mobile, and web applications
Universal Driver Interface SDK for developing custom protocol drivers
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