and Rockwell FactoryTalk Historian (FTH)

AVEVA PI System is a real-time data management infrastructure. At the heart of the PI System is a high-performance historian and asset framework that provide access to both current and historical data.

TopView PI allows you to easily monitor, alarm, report, and send notifications (Email, SMS, Voice callout, …) for PI tags, PI tag expressions, AF attributes, and AF attribute expressions read from one or more PI/FTH Servers or AF Servers.

TopView PI includes 2 datasources: PI and PIAF

The image above gives an overview of the PI and PIAF data sources in TopView PI.

On the left is the PI data source, TopView’s long-established PI-based data source for monitoring PI tag data from one or more PI Servers. Our PI data source uses the PI-SDK to monitor PI tag values and PI tag expressions to detect alarms and abnormal events.

On the right is the PIAF data source which monitors both PI tag and AF attributes. The PIAF data source is therefore a superset of the PI data source.

TopView for AVEVA PI System includes both the PI and PIAF data sources so you can choose the one that is right for you. Once the PI data values are retrieved by TopView, all other TopView features work the same.

TopView PI and PIAF Product Overview and Demo