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What IS AVEVA Historian?
AVEVA Historian is a process data historian that integrates with operations control systems. It captures, stores, and makes available process, alarm, and event data across plants or across multiple sites.
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It is designed for industrial settings where data continuity, integrity, and efficient retrieval are important for operations, diagnostics, reporting, and analysis.
Benefits Section
BENEFITS
Reliable data recording
Maintains consistent storage of operational, alarm, and event history.
Efficient storage
Uses compression and optimized storage structures to reduce disk usage
Flexible access modes
Offers multiple ways to query data (trend, interpolation, time-in-state, etc.).
Tiered architecture support
Enables lower-level historians to feed summary or full data to higher-level systems.
Data integrity handling
Handles late arrivals, clock mismatches, low bandwidth links to maintain correctness.
Cross-system integration
Works with HMI, SCADA, analytics, and reporting tools.
Features section
Features
✔ High-speed data collection engine
✔ Advanced compression & “history block” storage
✔ Multiple data retrieval modes (interpolated, slope, time-in-state, etc.)
✔ Supports tiered historian setups
✔ Handles data anomalies (late data, clock differences)
✔ Interfaces for dashboards, web clients, trend/analytics tools
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