Data Sources

Before you can link any asset to live or historical data from your system, you will need to create one or more data sources, which are the origin points of your data.

Data sources represent the physical source for the data. For example, the database, remote I/O unit or server that the information is sourced from.

A data driver is responsible for the actual communication. Many data sources may share a single driver, as each sources specifies an origin point for external information.For example, the specific MySQL server or Modbus TCP device to connect to.

A single asset can be a data source for both live and historical information for each context.

See Creating a Data Source for more information.