The Scalable Core Software in Measuring Value Acquisition

ibaPDA enables direct, real-time connectivity to a wide range of programmable logic controllers (PLCs), providing a robust basis for precise and synchronized process data acquisition. This capability ensures that users can gather operational signals from automation systems without needing additional middleware or proprietary interfaces.

By supporting a broad spectrum of communication protocols, including Siemens, Rockwell, Beckhoff, Codesys, Mitsubishi, ABB, as well as open protocols like Modbus, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, and many others, ibaPDA enables flexible integration into almost any automation environment. Whether a plant operates with legacy systems or modern, networked PLCs, ibaPDA can connect reliably and efficiently.

Once connected, signal acquisition is configured via an intuitive interface, enabling users to define which data points to capture, how frequently, and under what conditions. The acquired signals are timestamped and stored with high precision, ensuring that every event can be analyzed with clarity and confidence.

This direct PLC connectivity is crucial for:

• Real-time process monitoring and diagnostics
• Long-term data logging for compliance and traceability
• Condition-based maintenance and performance analysis
• Integration with higher-level systems such as SCADA, MES, or CMMS

Overall, ibaPDA’s PLC connectivity is an essential feature for transparency and insight in industrial environments, bridging the gap between control systems and data-driven decision-making.

ibaPDA enables direct access to data from industrial drive systems, providing valuable insights into motor behavior, torque profiles, speed control, and energy consumption. By connecting directly to drives from leading manufacturers, ibaPDA allows precise acquisition of drive parameters in real time.

Communication with drives is established via standardized field buses or Ethernet-based protocols such as PROFIBUS, PROFINET, EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, Modbus or vendor-specific interfaces. This eliminates the need for separate gateways or complex configurations, ensuring a streamlined setup and reliable data flow.

Collected data from the drives is recorded synchronized with signals from PLCs, sensors, and other sources. This allows for a comprehensive analysis of machine dynamics and interactions, whether for troubleshooting, optimizing performance, or validating production processes.

Key benefits include:

• Monitoring of torque, current, speed, and temperature in real time
• Early detection of mechanical wear or motor overload
• Improved energy efficiency through detailed consumption analysis
• Enhanced diagnostics during commissioning or fault scenarios

By integrating drive data into its central acquisition platform, ibaPDA empowers engineers and maintenance teams to make informed decisions based on a complete picture of the drives and machine behavior, leading to increased reliability and productivity.

ibaPDA enables seamless connectivity to industrial gauges and measurement systems, ensuring that critical quality parameters, such as thickness, width, profile, or flatness, are acquired, visualized, and stored with full time synchronization alongside process signals.

By supporting standard communication interfaces (e.g. TCP/IP, OPC DA/UA, or various proprietary interfaces), ibaPDA can integrate easily with gauging equipment from leading manufacturers. This allows values to be acquired directly and in real time, without requiring additional middleware or custom integration layers.

Typical applications include:

• Thickness and flatness measurements in rolling mills
• Profile monitoring in extrusion or coating lines
• Dimensional checks during material forming or cutting

Acquired gauge data is processed and stored in the same structure as other control and process signals. As a result, engineers can analyze product quality in direct correlation with machine states, drive behavior, or operator actions, enabling precise root cause analysis and continuous improvement.

Key benefits:

• Real-time monitoring of quality-critical values
• Synchronized recording with all other plant data
• Improved traceability and product documentation
• Supports long-term quality monitoring through HD data store

With this integration, ibaPDA acts as a central hub for both process and product data—bridging automation and quality assurance in a single, unified platform.

ibaPDA provides extensive integration capabilities with external IT systems, enabling smooth data exchange with databases, servers, and message brokers. This open architecture bridges the gap between the automation level and enterprise systems, ensuring that process data is available where it’s needed—securely, reliably, and in real time.

Using standard protocols and interfaces, ibaPDA can connect to:

• SQL databases (e.g., Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
• OPC UA/DA and HTTP(S)
• MQTT and Kafka brokers for IIoT and cloud-based applications
• ibaHD-Server for high-performance HD data archiving

This connectivity allows process and quality data to be used across various business functions, from production planning and quality management to advanced analytics and machine learning models.

Key use cases include:

• Automatic transfer of measurement data to ERP/MES systems
• Streaming real-time values to cloud platforms or edge devices
• Populating dashboards with live KPIs and alerts

By connecting to databases, servers, and brokers, ibaPDA becomes a central data integration hub in digital production environments, helping businesses unlock the full value of their operational data.

ibaPDA enables reliable and accurate acquisition of physical signals through direct connection to analog and digital input terminals. This functionality is essential when interfacing with field-level devices such as sensors, switches, actuators, and control panels that deliver electrical signals not routed through PLCs or field buses.

By supporting a range of iba I/O modules and third-party acquisition hardware, ibaPDA allows:

• High-resolution acquisition of analog values (e.g. pressure, temperature, vibration)
• Real-time monitoring of digital states (e.g. limit switches, alarms, machine status)
• Time-synchronous logging of all input signals alongside other process data

Data acquisition is handled with precise timestamping and can be configured for continuous or event-based recording. This allows users to visualize signal changes with microsecond-level granularity, which is crucial for troubleshooting, validation, and process optimization.

Key benefits:

• Flexible I/O configuration and scalable hardware support
• Synchronized sampling of all channels
• Seamless integration into ibaPDA’s centralized data recording
• Reliable fallback in case PLC access is limited or unavailable

With its support for direct I/O connection, ibaPDA ensures complete transparency from the electrical signal level up to the plant-wide data infrastructure, providing a solid foundation for deep insight and reliable automation diagnostics.

ibaPDA enables direct and efficient connectivity to CNC machines, making it possible to monitor and record both control signals and internal machine data with high precision. This functionality is essential for gaining visibility into complex motion sequences, tool paths, axis behaviors, and machining conditions, which are key factors in quality assurance and production optimization.

ibaPDA supports communication with CNC controls, including systems from manufacturers like Siemens SINUMERIK.

The acquired data typically includes:

• Position, velocity, and torque values of machine axes
• Tool usage, spindle speed, and feed rates
• Application execution states and alarms
• Setpoint/actual comparisons for critical machining parameters

All signals are recorded time-synchronously with data from PLCs, drives, and sensors, enabling comprehensive correlation and in-depth analysis.

Key benefits include:

• Real-time insight into CNC performance and deviations
• Improved traceability of production steps for quality assurance
• Early detection of wear, overloads, or programming errors
• Efficient support for root cause analysis and continuous improvement

By connecting CNC machines to ibaPDA, manufacturers gain the ability to treat every machining operation as a measurable and analyzable event, turning production data into a strategic asset.

ibaPDA supports direct connectivity to electrical protection and automation devices using the standardized communication protocol IEC 61850. This functionality is particularly relevant for substations, power generation, and industrial energy systems, where secure, real-time access to protection relay data is essential for monitoring and diagnostics.

Through IEC 61850, ibaPDA can communicate with Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) such as protection relays, bay controllers, and circuit breaker monitors—without the need for protocol converters or external gateways. Both client/server communication (MMS) and GOOSE message reception as well as Sampled Values (SV) are supported.

Once connected, ibaPDA can acquire:

• Measured values and statuses (e.g. voltage, current, breaker positions)
• Protection signals and fault indicators
• Events and status changes with source time-stamps
• GOOSE messages for fast, event-driven monitoring
• Sampled Values data streams

All data is recorded time-synchronously alongside other process signals, enabling unified analysis across electrical and mechanical systems.

Key benefits:

• Standard-compliant interface for secure integration with protection systems
• High-speed event detection through GOOSE message processing or Sampled Values data streams
• Accurate fault recording and event correlation across domains
• Ideal for grid diagnostics, condition monitoring, and operational transparency

By integrating IEC 61850-based protection devices, ibaPDA becomes a powerful tool for system operators and maintenance teams—delivering a complete picture of power system behavior and enhancing the ability to react to disturbances quickly and effectively.

ibaPDA is engineered to capture process and machine data with high temporal resolution, enabling precise analysis of fast-changing signals and transient events. With support for sampling rates up to 100 kHz per channel, in the future even 500 kHz with ibaMAQS and 1 MHz via ibaNet-E, the system is ideally suited for demanding applications in industries such as steel, paper, automotive, energy, and machinery manufacturing.

This high-frequency acquisition capability is particularly valuable when monitoring:

• Fast electrical or mechanical transients
• Drive dynamics and vibration signals
• High-speed digital or analog I/O changes
• Short-duration faults or irregularities during production

Thanks to its modular and scalable architecture, ibaPDA allows users to configure the frequency per channel individually, optimizing performance and data volume. Data from multiple sources (e.g., PLCs, sensors, drives, protection devices) is recorded time-synchronously, ensuring accurate correlation across all systems.

Key benefits include:

• High-resolution signal sampling for advanced diagnostics and troubleshooting
• Capture of short-duration events that conventional systems may miss
• Seamless integration with archived data via ibaHD-Server

When combined with tools like ibaAnalyzer, users can review high-frequency data in detail by zooming into millisecond or even microsecond level. This helps to better understand root causes and accelerates troubleshooting.

ibaPDA supports isochronous data acquisition, ensuring that all signals, regardless of their source, are recorded simultaneously and with precise time alignment. This is critical in complex automation and measurement environments where accurate timing is essential to understanding process interactions, machine behavior, and cause-effect relationships.

Various data sources are supported:

• PLCs and control systems
• Analog and digital I/O
• Drives and motion controllers
• Protection and energy devices
• Cameras and HMI screens (when combined with ibaCapture)

This results in a sample-accurate, gap-free recording of all signals, making it possible to:

• Correlate electrical, mechanical, and visual data with millisecond precision
• Analyze interactions between multiple data sources
• Detect subtle timing deviations that affect product quality or performance
• Enable synchronized triggering and event capture across subsystems

Key benefits:

• System-wide synchronization across all data sources
• High-resolution, time-consistent recordings
• Ideal for dynamic processes, fast feedback loops, and critical timing analysis
• Supports continuous or event-triggered recording with full temporal integrity

Isochronous data acquisition with ibaPDA lays the foundation for true process transparency and trusted analysis—whether for fault diagnosis, optimization, or certification purposes.

ibaPDA offers robust and efficient file-based data store using the proprietary DAT file format, designed specifically for industrial time-series data. This method is ideal for users who require flexible, local, or distributed storage of high-resolution measurement data, independent of central databases or network infrastructure.

During runtime, ibaPDA records all configured signals, whether from PLCs, drives, sensors, or field devices, into structured DAT files with precise time stamps. These files can be stored continuously or triggered by specific process events. The file structure is optimized for fast access, large volumes, and long-term archiving.

Key features of DAT file-based storage:

• High-performance write operations even with thousands of channels
• Time-synchronous data recording across all sources
• Configurable file sizes, naming conventions, and folder structures
• Event-based recording with pre- and post-trigger times
• Secure ring buffer mode to avoid disk overflow

DAT files are fully compatible with the analysis tool ibaAnalyzer, enabling powerful post-processing, visualization, and export into common formats such as CSV, Parquet, or MATLAB. In combination with ibaDatCoordinator, file management and automated extraction workflows can be easily implemented.

Typical use cases:

• Recording high-resolution process data on local or edge systems
• Event-driven logging for troubleshooting or quality documentation
• Portable data exchange across departments or partners
• Offline analysis independent of centralized IT systems

By offering structured file-based storage, ibaPDA gives users full control over their data acquisition strategy, ensuring reliability, traceability, and flexibility in every industrial application.

ibaPDA offers powerful capabilities for the continuous and seamless storage of historical process data (HD data). Designed for industrial environments with complex and data-rich systems, ibaPDA captures signals with high temporal resolution, such as sensor values, control variables, and drive parameters, and stores them efficiently for long-term analysis.

The HD data is written directly to ibaHD-Server, a scalable time-series database optimized for high-volume, time-synchronous signal storage. Unlike conventional file-based storage, the HD concept allows users to access historical data over weeks, months, or even years without needing to open or manage individual files.

Key benefits of HD data storage include:

• Centralized and structured long-term data archive
• Fast access to large time ranges via ibaAnalyzer, even with thousands of signals
• Flexible retention strategies to balance storage depth and system performance
• Scalable architecture that supports growing data volumes effortlessly

By combining ibaPDA with ibaHD-Server, companies gain a reliable and future-proof platform for storing and analyzing data across the entire production lifecycle. Whether for root cause analysis, KPI tracking, or predictive maintenance, HD data provides the foundation for informed and data-driven operational decisions.

ibaPDA enables targeted, event-based data storage, allowing users to capture only the time periods that are relevant to a specific process condition, alarm, or operational trigger. This feature is ideal for isolating important sequences—such as faults, product changes, or startup phases, without continuously recording large amounts of data.

Event-based recording is configured by defining trigger conditions based on any available signal within the system. These triggers can initiate the storage of a data segment with pre- and post-trigger times, ensuring that the context surrounding the event is preserved.

Key features:

• Flexible trigger logic using Boolean conditions, signal thresholds, or edges
• Multiple triggers per signal or system-wide event configuration
• Pre-/post-event buffers to capture what happened before and after the event
• Automatic tagging and organization of stored files
• Integration with video capture and image snapshots (in combination with ibaCapture)

Use cases for event-based storage include:

• Capturing transient faults or quality issues for detailed analysis
• Logging product-specific batches during manufacturing
• Monitoring rare process anomalies without generating excessive data
• Supporting condition-based maintenance with targeted evidence

Event-driven files are stored in the same structured DAT format used for continuous recordings or in pre-defined time periods in ibaHD server, ensuring full compatibility with analysis tools such as ibaAnalyzer. When needed, these event segments can also be exported, archived, or automatically processed using ibaDatCoordinator.

By focusing on relevant process windows, ibaPDA’s event-based storage helps engineers and analysts reduce data noise, accelerate troubleshooting, and document exactly what matters.

ibaPDA offers powerful capabilities for visualizing live and historical data through a variety of configurable views—enabling engineers, operators, and analysts to monitor processes, detect anomalies, and validate system behavior in real time or retrospectively.

Data from all connected sources, such as PLCs, drives, sensors, or field devices, can be displayed in clear and customizable formats, including:

• Trend charts with multiple y-axes and zoom functionality
• Bar graphs for status indicators or slow-changing values
• Digital displays for numeric precision
• Color-coded signal states for quick condition awareness
• Schematic process views via integration with ibaQPanel

All visualizations are updated in real time and can be linked to any configured signal. In multi-user environments, visualization layouts can be adapted per user role or use case, supporting operations, commissioning, and maintenance alike.

Key features include:

• Live visualization of measured signals in the ibaPDA Client
• Custom dashboards with ibaQPanel for plant-specific monitoring
• Historical data playback using synchronized cursors and time sliders
• Support for calculated signals, averages, and trend overlays
• Dockable, scalable views to build personalized monitoring stations

These visualizations are not only essential for daily operations but also serve as a valuable tool during fault analysis, commissioning, and optimization projects, providing a clear and dynamic window into the process.

By offering a wide range of visualization options, ibaPDA helps users turn raw data into meaningful insight, fostering faster decision-making, and improve process understanding.

ibaPDA allows real-time visualization of process and quality data through integrated HMI-style interfaces, enabling users to monitor key parameters, detect deviations, and support operational decisions directly at the point of production.

With its native support for ibaQPanel—a flexible and scalable visualization tool—ibaPDA can present measured signals, calculated values, and quality indicators in customized dashboards that reflect the actual structure of a plant or machine. This gives operators and engineers a clear and intuitive view of live production data.

Key features:

• Graphical representation of process values (e.g. temperatures, pressures, speeds)
• Display of quality metrics such as thickness, flatness, or tolerances in real time
• Custom layouts using process images, gauges, and indicators
• Integration of alarms, status messages, and trend windows
• Support for touch panels and multi-screen environments

In addition to live monitoring, HMI views can include event-triggered displays that highlight critical process states, such as fault conditions, product changeovers, or threshold violations. This ensures that operators always have the most relevant data at their fingertips.

Benefits include:

• Improved transparency across process and quality dimensions
• Faster reaction to process deviations or alarms
• Operator-friendly visualization tailored to specific tasks or machines
• Data-driven support for quality assurance and compliance

By combining ibaPDA's data acquisition power with interactive HMI capabilities, companies can create a unified environment where real-time visibility and process understanding go hand in hand, boosting both productivity and product quality.

ibaPDA, in combination with ibaCapture, enables the time-synchronized display of video recordings alongside process data, providing powerful visual context for operational and diagnostic insights. This integration allows users to correlate machine behavior, operator actions, and product movement with actual process signals in real time or during post-event analysis.

Video streams from cameras (e.g. IP, GigE, or virtual sources like HMI screens) are recorded in parallel with signals from PLCs, drives, and sensors. All data is precisely time-aligned down to the millisecond, ensuring that each frame of video corresponds exactly with the current state of the process.

Key capabilities:

• Live video monitoring within ibaPDA Client or ibaQPanel
• Event-triggered video recording and playback
• Dockable views showing synchronized trend curves and video frames
• Frame-by-frame replay for root cause analysis
• Support for up to 64 cameras per ibaCapture Server
• Process-based control of PTZ-cameras (Pan-Tilt-Zoom)

This synchronized display is ideal for:

• Troubleshooting mechanical faults or operator errors
• Verifying product handling and material flow
• Monitoring hard-to-measure areas such as feeders, rollers, or furnaces
• Documenting critical events or quality deviations

All video and process data can be analyzed later using ibaAnalyzer, where moving the time cursor in a trend graph simultaneously updates the corresponding video frame, allowing intuitive and detailed investigation of what happened, when, and why.

By visualizing video and process signals side-by-side, ibaPDA helps users see not just the numbers—but the full picture.

ibaPDA supports the calculation and storage of snapshot values, enabling users to extract key information from process data at defined moments—such as production events, machine cycles, or product transitions. These snapshots provide concise, context-specific values that are essential for reporting, diagnostics, and quality tracking.

Snapshot values can include:

• Statistical metrics like average, minimum, maximum, or standard deviation
• Time-stamped signal values at specific trigger points
• Custom expressions combining multiple signals
• Process-specific KPIs and derived quality indicators

Snapshots are typically triggered by user-defined conditions—such as signal transitions, recipe changes, or external triggers—and are calculated in real time using expression logic or calculation modules within ibaPDA.

Key benefits:

• Condensed representation of process segments for easier evaluation
• Automated calculation and archiving of key performance values
• Basis for batch reports, quality dashboards, or database exports
• Full synchronization with high-resolution raw data for traceability

These calculated values can be displayed directly in ibaPDA Client, logged in DAT files, in pre-defined time periods, or transferred to databases and third-party systems via tools like ibaDatCoordinator. They serve as a practical bridge between raw signal acquisition and higher-level process understanding.

By calculating snapshot values, ibaPDA turns continuous process streams into actionable data points, making it easier to measure, compare, and improve industrial performance.

ibaPDA includes powerful capabilities to generate events automatically based on defined process conditions, enabling users to record and respond to relevant changes in real time. These events serve as structured markers for critical situations, such as faults, alarms, or key production milestones, and are essential for focused analysis, reporting, and long-term documentation.

Events in ibaPDA are triggered by:

• Signal thresholds (e.g. temperature exceeding a limit)
• State transitions (e.g. machine start/stop, product changeover)
• Logical expressions combining multiple conditions
• External triggers from PLCs or operator input

Once triggered, events can be used to:

• Start or stop data recording (event-based logging)
• Save calculated values or snapshots for the event duration
• Mark specific points in time for later analysis in ibaAnalyzer
• Trigger video recording or layout switching in ibaCapture and ibaQPanel
• Send messages or export data via ibaDatCoordinator

Key benefits:

• Automated, rule-based detection of meaningful process states
• Improved clarity by focusing on relevant periods only
• Reliable documentation of deviations, cycles, or conditions
• Enables event-driven reporting and dashboard updates

Events are stored in a structured way and can be visualized alongside signal trends and video data, making it easy to trace process behavior before, during, and after each event.

By generating and managing events, ibaPDA helps users shift from continuous monitoring to context-aware analysis, bringing greater focus, efficiency, and insight to industrial data handling.

ibaPDA offers advanced functionality to monitor cyclical and rotating processes, making it ideal for applications such as rolling mills, turbines, presses, rotary kilns, or any machinery with recurring operational patterns. This capability enables users to capture, evaluate, and compare signal behavior over repeated cycles or revolutions, ensuring precise insight into process stability and mechanical performance.

Using position, angle, or speed signals (e.g. from encoders, counters, or virtual markers), ibaPDA can:

• Synchronize signal recording to rotation or stroke cycles
• Align data based on angular or length-based references
• Capture one or multiple revolutions for comparison
• Trigger event-based snapshots or alarms on each cycle

Key features include:

• Cycle-based data slicing for in-depth evaluation of signal trends per revolution or stroke
• Support for both time-based and length-based synchronization (e.g. via ibaQDR)
• Real-time monitoring of deviations between cycles
• Automatic detection of anomalies like imbalance, wear, or drift

This functionality is essential for:

• Detecting changes in repetitive machine behavior
• Monitoring product uniformity over strokes or rolls
• Comparing cycles to reference patterns or baseline signals
• Enabling predictive maintenance based on cycle-level analysis

Combined with ibaAnalyzer, cyclical data can be visualized and evaluated across many repetitions, providing engineers and maintenance teams with a detailed view of process consistency and emerging issues.

By monitoring cyclical and rotating processes with precision, ibaPDA helps optimize performance, prevent failures, and ensure consistent product quality even in high-speed, repetitive operations.

The vibration monitoring functionality in ibaPDA provides high-resolution, real-time acquisition and analysis of vibration signals, not limited to mechanical oscillations, but including a wide range of dynamic behaviors across industrial assets. This function is designed for continuous operation, delivering immediate insight into equipment performance during production, testing, or troubleshooting.

Fully integrated into the ibaPDA system architecture, it enables users to observe and analyze vibration signals live, directly alongside other process parameters.

Key capabilities

• Acquires vibration signals online from a variety of sensors, including acceleration, velocity, and displacement.
• Performs real-time signal processing, including RMS, peak, FFT, and envelope analysis, within the data stream.
• Visualizes vibration data live in charts and dashboards for immediate evaluation.
• Correlates vibration behavior with other process data in a synchronized view for root-cause analysis.
• Supports multiple sampling rates and channel configurations for both low- and high-frequency dynamics.
• Enables threshold-based triggers to highlight anomalies or limit violations as they occur.

This functionality is ideal for dynamic environments where fast reactions and clear visibility into vibration trends are critical.

Typical use cases

• Real-time vibration analysis of motors, fans, and rotating equipment during operation.
• Test bench monitoring for product validation and compliance testing.
• Live diagnosis of dynamic system behavior during commissioning or troubleshooting.
• Correlation of vibration signals with electrical or control signals for system-wide insights.
• Verification of mechanical balance during machine startup or alignment procedures.

With its online and real-time capabilities, ibaPDA’s vibration function provides engineers and technicians with actionable vibration data, directly at the point where fast decisions matter most.

ibaPDA supports continuous data streaming, enabling real-time transmission of measured process values to external systems. This capability is essential for live dashboards, advanced analytics, IIoT platforms, and any application that requires low-latency access to current plant data.

With flexible streaming interfaces, ibaPDA can transmit data via:

• OPC UA or OPC DA to SCADA, MES, or historian systems
• MQTT or Kafka to cloud services or edge platforms
• TCP/IP and HTTP(S) for custom applications
• ibaHD-Server for synchronized high-resolution storage

The streaming process is configurable, including:

• Adjustable update rates (e.g., 1 ms to 1 s)
• Signal scaling, filtering, and transformation prior to streaming
• Metadata tagging and signal grouping for easy integration
• Buffering and transmission to ensure data integrity

Typical use cases:

• Feeding live dashboards and control rooms with real-time process KPIs
• Supplying machine learning models with continuous sensor input
• Integrating production data into business intelligence tools
• Synchronizing data across distributed systems or partner networks

With continuous streaming, ibaPDA acts as a reliable and high-performance data hub, bridging automation-level signals with enterprise-level insights. Whether for on-premises systems or cloud infrastructure, it ensures that data is always available, accurate, timely, and actionable.

ibaPDA offers flexible functionality for triggered data output, allowing specific signals, values, or calculated results to be transmitted to external systems exactly when defined process conditions occur. This event-driven approach ensures that only relevant data is transferred—reducing bandwidth, focusing attention, and enabling real-time reactions.

Data output can be triggered by:

• Threshold violations (e.g. temperature exceeds limit)
• Signal transitions or machine states (e.g. start/end of a cycle or batch)
• Logical expressions defined in ibaPDA
• Manual operator actions or external system commands

Once triggered, data can be output via:

• OPC UA/DA to SCADA or control systems
• MQTT or HTTPS(S) to IIoT/cloud platforms
• TCP/IP or file-based together with ibaAnalyzer
• ibaDatCoordinator for further automated workflows (e.g. report generation, email, archiving)

Typical output content includes:

• Raw or filtered process values at the time of the trigger
• Snapshot statistics (e.g. min, max, avg during a period)
• Timestamps and event metadata
• Identifiers such as batch number, machine ID, or product type

Key benefits:

• Focused and timely data delivery for decision support and automation
• Efficient integration with external systems only when needed
• Improved traceability through event-linked output
• Reduces unnecessary data traffic and storage

By enabling triggered data output, ibaPDA transforms passive monitoring into active, event-driven communication, supporting smarter systems, faster responses, and more efficient data handling in modern industrial environments.

ibaPDA includes built-in functionality to publish acquired process data to standard server interfaces, enabling seamless integration with a wide range of industrial and enterprise systems. This feature allows real-time or near-real-time sharing of measurement data from PLCs, sensors, drives, and other sources to third-party applications via open, industry-standard protocols.

Supported server interfaces include:

• OPC UA (Unified Architecture) – widely used for modern, secure, platform-independent communication
• OPC DA (Data Access) – for compatibility with legacy systems
• MQTT – ideal for lightweight messaging in IIoT and cloud architectures
• HTTPS(S) for integration with web-based and IT systems
• TCP/IP-based custom protocols

Once configured, ibaPDA acts as a data provider, making selected signals or calculated values available to external clients such as:

• SCADA and DCS systems
• MES and ERP platforms
• Condition monitoring and data analytics tools
• Cloud services and dashboards

Typical use cases:

• Feeding live process values to supervisory systems (SCADA, MES)
• Streaming sensor data to cloud platforms for analytics or machine learning
• Providing calculated KPIs to business applications or dashboards
• Enabling IT/OT convergence through standardized data exchange

By publishing data to standard servers, ibaPDA serves as a central data hub, ensuring that high-quality, time-aligned process data is available wherever it’s needed—across production, maintenance, quality, and enterprise environments.