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What is AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure?
AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure is a fully integrated hybrid solution for seamlessly managing operations data across the modern industrial enterprise: at the industrial edge, across multiple on-premises sites and in the cloud. Deliver consistent, reliable data to authorized users in any function or location—including your external ecosystem—and accelerate time-to-value for advanced analytics.
Realize the full potential of your operations data to make faster, more informed decisions, increase efficiency and pursue sustainability.
40%
of operations data is now stored in the cloud.
4X
Increase in edge data collected from sensors and devices from 2020 to 2025.
38%
of data scientists’ time is spent managing data, which could be used more productively.
3X
Greater economic benefit for companies that share operations data externally.
“To better embrace digital transformation, we need greater flexibility and integration at all levels, a data infrastructure that can give us full visibility across our multi-site operating environment while keeping cybersecurity a high priority.”
—Giovanna Ruggieri, Head of Information & Communications Technology, EP Power Europe
Benefits
Enable data-driven decisions
Aggregate and centralize critical data from across your enterprise to develop deeper industrial insight.
Empower more data users
Provide consistent, contextualized data to users inside or outside operations in any location, on any device.
Choose cloud-based analytics
Integrate operations data securely with any cloud-based analytics tool or AI solution.
Features
Edge-to-cloud hybrid infrastructure
Collect and aggregate critical data across your distributed, global enterprise. Enable a fast, seamless and secure flow of real-time, high-fidelity data anywhere it‘s needed—in your plants, at the remote edge, or in a trusted, cloud-based community—with complete data integrity.
Scalable, flexible architecture
With edge, on-prem and cloud components, you can put data storage and processing where it’s most efficient and scale as needed. Feed edge data directly to field engineers. Aggregate data from multiple sites in the cloud to support enterprise analysis. Easily share data with third-party data scientists and service providers via the web.
Fully secure and fully integrated
Deploy a fully integrated data highway that connects the industrial edge to all your plants and uses the cloud to reach any authorized user or application. Enjoy fast, secure transfer of your high-fidelity industrial data anywhere it’s needed with complete data integrity and end-to-end security.
Enterprise manageability
AVEVA solutions rest on the power and performance of our industrial-focused data technology and commitment to enterprise-level security and manageability. In addition, we offer an “aggregate tag” purchasing option that lets customers with multiple servers purchase tags in bulk and allocate among servers as needs change.
Open environment
Vendor-neutral data infrastructure and open APIs let you aggregate real-time and historical operations data in the cloud and easily integrate with other types of data, analytic tools, and industrial applications from AVEVA and other vendors.
CONNECT industrial platform
Subscription includes access to the industrial intelligence platform CONNECT, which offers cloud-based services for data management, visualization and analytics. Create powerful dashboards that combine data from asset information and manufacturing execution systems with data from AVEVA™ PI Server.
RHI Magnesita reduces carbon emissions with predictive analytics
The company expanded data infrastructure to the cloud to modernize maintenance and asset management. Predictions with accuracy of 80%+ have reduced CO2 emissions by more than 4,200 tons per year.
How you can use AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure
Visualize your expanding operations
A hybrid data platform lets you see what’s critical, even in remote locations or from geographically dispersed assets and IIoT devices. Aggregate data as needed and easily scale capacity using cloud. Visualize and monitor thousands of renewable energy resources in real time.
Support remote monitoring and collaboration
Build secure online communities to share select real-time operations data and use them to deliver personalized services to customers, coordinate with suppliers and vendors, and develop new offerings with partners.
Implement advanced and AI analytics
Deliver large volumes of curated, real-time data to third-party data scientists or analyze with cloud-based applications. Perform deeper investigations using AI-infused analytics, machine learning and digital twin simulations.
Drive resiliency and sustainability
An industrial-focused data infrastructure lets your organization become more data-driven. Fast access to relevant information lets you optimize efficiency and resource usage and predict when intervention is needed to avoid disruptions.
FAQs
To turn data into operational insights that drive sustainability, you need a flexible data management platform. AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure solutions help you establish an operations monitoring baseline, visualize critical asset and process performance, develop actionable insight, and apply advanced, AI-based analytics to achieve measurable outcomes. For customers across industries, AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure plays a critical role in helping them shift to renewable energy, minimize resource consumption, reduce emissions, improve circularity and safety, extend asset life and automate compliance reporting.
CONNECT is our industrial intelligence platform. It allows you to manage, visualize, share, and analyze your industrial information from on-premises and cloud applications in a single interface. Because CONNECT is open and neutral, you can share information with partners and third parties across your ecosystem to enhance and model your data. You can also develop new applications to further enhance your operations. Optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and reduce waste with robust insights and the flexibility of the cloud.
All of the capabilities of AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure are part of a single subscription that you pay for with AVEVA™ Flex credits. Account reps will help you decide whether it makes sense to purchase subscriptions for individual servers, purchase an aggregate tag subscription that lets you allocate tags among your servers, or another approach to fit your specific needs.
Sign up for training workshops, classes and a wealth of digital resources in multiple languages. AVEVA provides different learning paths for Standard Users, Power Users, Administrators and Developers of AVEVA PI System products. Content can be delivered via instructor-led training, virtual classrooms or private classes.
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Related products
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Accelerate information discovery and break down silos for fast, intuitive, in-context access to relevant data.
AVEVA Manufacturing Execution System
Formerly Known As Wonderware MES
Maximize profitability, flexibility, quality, and compliance in manufacturing by digitally managing the rules and information for all operational activities and plant events in real-time. A work process-centric and Model-driven approach reduce the time to value and cost of ownership for both plant deployments and multi-site MES rollouts.
AVEVA PI Vision
With AVEVA PI Vision, turn raw data into rich, visual displays and share valuable insights across your enterprise.
AVEVA Predictive Analytics
Formerly Known As PRiSM Predictive Asset Analytics
End unplanned downtime and reduce maintenance costs with accurate asset health information that improves operating efficiency and resilience
AVEVA™ Unified Operations Center
Converge engineering, operations and other data in context for end-to-end enterprise visibility
Resources
- Demo
See AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure in action.
- Solution Brief
Discover AVEVA’s hybrid data management solution
- Presentation
AVEVA World 2023 presentation on the PI System portfolio roadmap
Sources:
1. IDC: “Worldwide IT/OT Convergence Survey, 2022," Jonathan Lang, Sept 2022 Reported data point from 2022 expanded at reported growth rate.
2. Gartner, Predicts 2022: The distributed enterprise drives computing to the edge.
3. https://www.anaconda.com/resources/whitepapers/state-of-data-science-report-2022/
4. Gartner, "Data and Analytics Essentials: Data Sharing", Lydia Clougherty Jones, 24 June 2021.
