ThinkIQ Glossary of Terms


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Term Definition

Model Explorer

The place within the customer website that allows editing and viewing of plant data. Provides a simple and quick way to build context without software engineering or data science skills.

Module

Modules are lightweight and flexible pieces of functionality that can be inserted into a page to display certain types of pre-configured content.

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MQTT Connector

A software component that enables communication between systems using the MQTT protocol

No Interpolation (none)

When no data exists, no line is drawn between the values of time-series data between two recorded points. 

OPC HDA

OPC Historical Data Access is a standard developed by the OPC Foundation to enable seamless access to archived process data in industrial systems. In ThinkIQ’s case, a gateway uses this protocol to receive/read data from a historian.

OPCDA

OPC Data Access specifications for communicating real-time and continuous data from historians to other systems. In ThinkIQ’s case, a gateway uses this protocol to receive/read data from a historian.

OPCUA

OPC Unified Architecture. A machine to machine communication protocol for industrial automation developed by the OPC Foundation.  see industrial automation on Wikepedia.

Outflow

Movement of material out of a Material Account.

Pens

The function of trend / data. A “description” of how the data is behaving.

Previous Interpolation

When no data exists,line is drawn between the values of time-series data between two recorded points will maintain the current value