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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.