Section 2 Introduction; History - ABB 800xA User Manual

History

History helps to collect information from the sensor to the executive's desktop. It is
designed to be a high-performance process historian for the management of real-
time data and events.
It reliably gathers and serve large volumes of data. It delivers information to the
right people at the right time and brings system and people together. It provides
access to history data through standard interface like OPC and ODBC and insulates
the automation system from the applications accessing the process data. It provides
view of operational information inside the Smart Client and external applications
like Microsoft Excel reports.
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Traditional historian with RDBMS functions.
Fault tolerant and remote data collection.
High performance storage of process and event data.
Aggregates and user defined calculations for raw data.
Firewall friendly, secure connectivity.
Provides long term on-line data storage.
Standard data access interfaces - OPC

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