In this chapter, we looked into how the S95 standard addresses asset modeling and exchange of asset data between different levels of an enterprise control system. Then, we overviewed the existing database management systems (including blockchain) with a focus on the data types they can store. Furthermore, we compared the most widely used time series storage.
We provided a detailed instruction and a sample code to build a Node.js application that simulates reading of time series measurements. Touching upon different types of analytics, we highlighted the analytical functions of the InfluxDB database. Then, we demonstrated how to enable descriptive analytics with InfluxDB for the Node.js app we had previously built. In addition, we showed how to set up time series visualizations with Highcharts and Grafana and to configure email and Slack notifications and alerts from Grafana...