Kepware (a PTC Technology) is the market leader in Industrial Connectivity platforms, and is helping companies bridge the gap between IT and OT. For the past 25 years, Kepware has developed industrial connectivity tools including over 150 industrial drivers, and supporting over 300 protocols – from traditional automation protocols such as OPC UA or OPC DA to more modern IIoT protocols like MQTT or REST. Together with InfluxDB, customers achieve quick time to value, gaining insights from their industrial time-stamped data. Developers are able to collect, process, store and analyze thousands of metrics faster! Join this webinar to learn multiple approaches to sending IIoT data to a time series database. In this webinar, Kyle Carreau and Jay Clifford dive into: How to use Telegraf to send OPC UA and MQTT metrics to InfluxDB The new Kepware IoT Gateway Advanced Template features to send data directly to InfluxDB Best practices for using InfluxDB + Kepware for industrial automation – stick around for a demo!

1. 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

20. Thank You