Overview

With the TwinCAT Analytics Storage Provider, Beckhoff offers a way to continuously store high-resolution data in a binary format. The decisive factor is that the user does not have to worry about data storage. The storage provider takes care of this automatically. The configuration is done with a few clicks in engineering. Complex SQL commands are not necessary. Classic databases can be used, but also binary blob stores.

Components

• TwinCAT Analytics Storage Provider service: A Windows service that manages the communication.
• TwinCAT Analytics Storage Provider PLC Library: A TwinCAT 3 PLC library with functions for controlling the storage provider from a PLC application.

Principle of operation

The Analytics Storage Provider receives and sends data via MQTT communication protocol. For this purpose, it is connected to a native MQTT message broker in the network and on the other side to the corresponding data sink.

Supported databases/storage

• TwinCAT Analytics Binary File
• Microsoft SQL
• Microsoft Azure Blob