Transfer data from Aveva PI to Historian? (data flow: third party data source -> Aveva Pi -> Aveva Historian)

Hi Johnson,

Could you explain what is the use case that you are trying to solve? In our ideal architecture AVEVA Pi should be on top of Historian to consolidate all the operational data coming from all the different data source plus Historian.

So there isn't any native/direct way to send data from PI to Historian, but there are different options:

• Manual insert to Historian using CSV files. You can export data from PI in CSV format and then import as manual data into Historian. Format should be the one requested by Historian.
• Using AVEVA Application Server as a "gateway". From App. Server read data from PI using the webAPI and then this data can be mapped into Objects-Attributes and finally store in Historian.
• Using external tools to read data from PI, using one of the different options available and then insert this data to Historian using one of the existing options.

All of Ruben's answers are spot on. I'll just point out one variation on his idea of using the PI Web API: If you're already using Application Server, Ruben's suggestion is probably better, but if you're not, you can use the Web Service Communication Driver directly with Historian as an "IDAS" tag. 

All of Ruben's answers are spot on. I'll just point out one variation on his idea of using the PI Web API: If you're already using Application Server, Ruben's suggestion is probably better, but if you're not, you can use the Web Service Communication Driver directly with Historian as an "IDAS" tag.