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Kyle Carreau | Partner Enablement Engineer, Kepware Products
Jay Clifford | Developer Advocate, InfluxData
February 2022
101: Kepware and InfluxDB

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Jay Clifford
Developer Advocate, InfluxData
● Past life: Sales Engineer for IIoT Solutions
● Passion: OT, Autonomous and Vision based projects
● Driven: To make IoT accessible to all
● Belief: Industrial IoT’s success belongs to the domain
experts.

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Kyle Carreau
Partner Enablement Engineer, Kepware
Products
● Past life: Rockwell Automation Distributor Specialist
(PLC, Industrial Networking, Information Software)
● Passion: Innovation and Ecosystem
● Driven: To make IoT accessible to all
● Belief: Industrial IoT’s success is aligned with
partnerships (Customer, Vendor, Integrator)

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The Plan
Part 3
Demo 2: What's new?
Integrating Kepware and
InfluxDB directly
Part 2
Demo 1: How to integrate
Kepware and InfluxDB using
Telegraf
Part 4
Let's discuss gotchas…
&
Question Time!
Part 1
In a nutshell: Kepware and
InfluxDB

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In a nutshell

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Kepware
•Impact: connects to virtually any
brownfield or greenfield machine
•Speed: start data flow in just minutes
•Scale: reliability proven in over
75,000 sites
•Minimize future connectivity
expenses and challenges
•Trusted in the factory for over 20
years

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Kepware

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Supporting Legacy and Modern Architectures

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InfluxData - The Platform
Factory 2
Factory 1

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InfluxDB - Dev Burger
FEATURES
CORE
Dashboarding
Functional Data Scripting
Alerting
Tasks
OSS
CLOUD
SETUP
Uses
Server
Monitoring
IIoT
Geotemporal
Storage
Logistics
Fintech
Ecommerce
Agriculture
GUI

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Telegraf - Dev Burger
FEATURES
CORE
Configs
Minimal memory footprint
Data transformation
SETUP
Uses
Server
Monitoring
IIoT
Geotemporal
Storage
Logistics
Fintech
Ecommerce
Agriculture
Plugins

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Demo 1
Integrating Kepware and InfluxDB

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Demo 1 - Architecture
Telegraf InfluxDB
Machines
Production Lines
X3
KepServerEX
[[inputs.mqtt_consumer]]
servers = ["tcp://192.168.1.220:1883"]
topics = [
"iotgateway",
]
data_format = "json_v2"
[[inputs.mqtt_consumer.json_v2]]
measurement_name = "kepware_edge"
[[inputs.mqtt_consumer.json_v2.object]]
path = "@this"
disable_prepend_keys = true
timestamp_path = "timestamp"
timestamp_format = "unix"
[[inputs.opcua]]
name = "opcua"
endpoint = "opc.tcp://localhost:49330"
security_policy = "auto"
security_mode = "auto"
certificate = ""
private_key = ""
auth_method = "UserName"
username = "Administrator"
password = "serverserverserver"
[[inputs.opcua.group]]
nodes = [
{name="Tag1", namespace="2", identifier_type="s",
identifier="Line01.Line01PartProduction.ProductionCount"
},
{name="Tag2", namespace="2", identifier_type="s",
identifier="Line01.Line01PartProduction.RunningJobOrder
"},
{name="Tag2", namespace="2", identifier_type="s",
identifier="Line01.Line01PartProduction.WasteCount"}
]

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Demo 2
What's new?

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Demo 2 - Architecture
InfluxDB
Machines
Production Lines
X3
KepServerEX
|#each VALUES|kepware,factory=germany |TAGNAME|=|VALUE|
|TIMESTAMP||#unless @last||LINEFEED||/unless||/each|
kepware,factory=germany,bender=bender1 current=1.5

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Demo 2 - Data Transformation
|#each VALUES|kepware,factory=germany |TAGNAME|=|VALUE|
|TIMESTAMP||#unless @last||LINEFEED||/unless||/each| = kepware,factory=germany Bender.Bender.Voltage=23.7500591 1641991121912
Measurement
Tag
Field
factory_data
Bender.Bender.Voltage=23.7500591
Channel = Bender
Device = Bender
Voltage=23.7500591
=
kepware,factory=germany,channel=Bender,device=Bender Current=1.49179125 1641991121912
factory_data_downsample

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Gotchas &
Questions

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Gotchas - going direct
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Tag creation
Debugging
Every scan vs
Data changes
Kepware
Tag
Spaces

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Getting Started
https:/
/github.com/InfluxCommunity/Kepware_Template

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Thank You