Chapter 5: Osi Pi Machine Adapter; Osi Pi Machine Adapter Architecture; Features And Compatibility; Supported Value Type - Emerson PACSystems User Manual

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Chapter 5: OSI PI Machine Adapter

5.1

OSI PI Machine Adapter Architecture

OSI PI Machine Adapter enables Predix applications to utilize data already consolidated in PI
historians, such as to aggregate data across power plants or manufacturing facilities vs. re-
implementing connections from potentially hundreds of devices. Provides secure data
collection from OSIsoft® PI Servers via the PI Web API interface, enables customers to
analyze data stored in OSI PI in their Predix environment and make this industrial data
available to the Predix Cloud.
5.1.1

Features and Compatibility

This table lists the OSI PI Machine Adapter features and compatibility.
Features
PI Web API 2017
PI Web API 2018
Read data from PI Server
Write data to PI Server
Predix Machine Version
5.1.2

Supported Value Type

The OSI PI Machine Adapter currently supports the following value data type:
Value Type
Boolean
Byte, Double, Int16, Int32, Int64,
Single
DateTime
Guid
String
Array
Enumeration value
5.2

Obtaining the OSI PI Machine Adapter

The OSI PI Machine Adapter must be purchased for each Field Agent where it will be
installed.
https://www.emerson.com/Industrial-Automation-Controls/support.
After downloading the zip file containing the OSI PI Machine Adapter, verify the file integrity
by calculating a SHA-256 sum of the zip file and compare it to the expected SHA-256 sum
posted on the download page.
OSI PI Machine Adapter
OSI PI Machine Adapter
Yes
No
Yes
No
17.1
OSI PI Machine Adapter
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
It can then be downloaded from the
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following location:
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