EDS. Enterprise Data Server

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1 EDS Enterprise Data Server

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3 EDS Enterprise Data Server Accurate, up-to-date process information for executives, managers, supervisors and engineering analysts is essential for optimal system operation. The ability to monitor your processes from anywhere within your corporate or municipal IT architecture provides additional flexibility for improved operations, and enhanced evaluation and decision support. EDS is a comprehensive system for collecting and processing data that allows viewing of current and past process information from anywhere within your corporate structure. EDS information is gathered from control systems, as well as other plant data sources and is presented in process and read-only control diagrams, alarm lists, trends, and reports. Virtual Machine 1 Virtual Machine 2 Virtual Machine 3 EDS1 Linux RedHat 5 Physical Machine 1 Operating System: ESX 4.1 EDS2 Linux RedHat 5 Virtualization Layer-VMWare HA Ezternal Storage RAID 5 The key features of the EDS that sets it apart are the one way data communications and data shadowing features. The data shadowing allows for a secondary value to be added where archived data sets are lost or network transmissions are interrupted. EDS3 Linux RedHat 5 Physical Machine 2 Operating System: ESX 4.1 High Availability Solutions Software Hardware The EDS may be supplied in a redundant hardware configuration, from basic parallel servers to high availability rack mounted hardware and optionally clustered server configurations. Below is an example of virtualization of three servers on a redundant set of servers with attached RAID hard disk storage. The system can be supplied with RAID 1, RAID5 and RAID 10 for the ultimate in performance. Comprehensive platform for live data, archival data, data integration, remote visualization of process graphics, trends, and alarms Integrated view of multiple systems and sites at authorized desktop computers Calculation server and reporting system with execution scheduler Data gathering from multiple data sources to a centralized data server for live and local archival and forwarding to the EDS thin and thick clients High availability options including clustering, and server virtualization Scalable up to 1.200,000 process points in clustered arrays Excel plug-in Features Data System Integration EDS manages the distribution of replicated process values, alarms, and displays to users running the EDS Terminal client application suite at their desktop computer. The EDS also acts as a data integration platform that provides process information to plant optimization and performance software applications as well as fleet management solutions. The EDS architecture supports interfacing with data sources, control systems, and PLCs.The client application provides the ability to select between the individual servers in order to focus on process activity from each unique system. In addition, site EDS servers or data feeders can propagate their data to a higher level enterprise EDS server, thus providing multi-site integration support. The EDS is comprised of three major components: Data feeders, server functions and the EDS terminal client application suite. Data Feeders The EDS includes software applications which are loaded onto data systems or control systems in order to monitor process value statuses and determine when to transfer this information to the EDS data server. Only value changes are sent to the server, thus minimizing network traffic. The EDS data structure obtains information from those data sources with support for analog, digital, packed, and time point types. Interfaces available are API s, DCS data feeders, OPC, Modbus, and various SCADA protocols. EDS Data Gateways The EDS Data Gateways provide an ability to retrieve and synchronize information from multiple sources including existing EDS servers and other data collection services. There are programs that provide functionality to display and store live data as well as synchronize historical data between sources.

4 EDS Server Calculation Server EDS Terminal The EDS terminal consists of the: EDS Toolbar Process Diagram Display Point List / Point Info Events List Report Editor Report Monitor Trends Message Log Workspace (Profile) Scripting feature Running on the Linux (preferred) operating system, the EDS server provides live data service, archive service, calculation service, diagram service, reports, and database access. As a centralized source of current and past process values and alarm state data the EDS server manages connections to EDS terminal client applications. A single EDS data server can be configured to collect data from one or more sources, such as OPC-DA servers, Smart metering systems, PLC s, DCS s or another EDS servers. Equipped with tools for importing databases, the EDS server is designed to read point and status parameters from data sources. It also monitors the control systems databases to identify new or modified points. Database Administration Tools The EDS Calculation Server allows users to select any point in the system and run calculations to create new tag values, virtual tag values, and other functions. There are 99 functions available. These calculated points can be used and displayed system wide the same way as other tags in the system on displays, trends, in reports and can alarm to the events list. This tool uses a visual tree structure for the representation of the calculation. All calculations can be stored in archive function for retrieval by any user. The server manages the EDS system configuration and offers security and technology group definitions. Redundancy via clustering is available through SCSI arrays and fiber channel arrays. The EDS systems powerful administration tools include a graphics converter that quickly transforms actual Ovation and WDPF graphics into the EDS displays at a high level of translation with minimal display differences. The graphics builder allows users to create custom or multi data source display creations. Point database configuration is available for point database importation and system database monitoring to identify new or modified points. Additionally, a calculation builder is included for calculation functions. User administration features allow the definition of security groups and the users assigned within. Technology groups are a collection of other security groups for rapid area access, and are used for filtering points and graphics. EDS Terminal Application Suite The EDS Terminal is a client application for the EDS Server. Both the EDS Terminal and the EDS Server are parts of the EDS package, which includes data management and a visualization system. The EDS package is designed with the following considerations: Provide enterprise visualization, data archiving, and reporting for dynamic process information over facilities local and wide area network, Customizes to match the unique nature of a specific industrial installation. The EDS Terminal tools allow you to perform the following tasks: Monitor graphics and process information in near real-time for the current asset state online, Switch between customized workspaces, which contain: - Diagrams, - Trend analysis, Design the reports that meet the specific needs of your facility, Browse and analyze trend and historical data.

5 EDS Terminal Toolbar Once the user has logged in with a unique ID and password, and has connected to an EDS server, the EDS terminal toolbar appears, providing access to the user level of EDS applications. During the login process, the terminal environment is automatically updated with the latest point database and process graphics available from the EDS data server. The toolbar, collapsible to a single minimized icon, contains a small status indicator which shows that communication with the server has been established. Process Diagram Display The EDS process diagram display provides a list of available process graphic replicas. The list of graphics is filterable based on selection of the source control system. Graphics can be previewed in this window before launching the desired selection into one of four available diagram display windows. Each diagram display window shows a selected graphic with live, dynamic updates of its process values, presented in numeric or graphical form. It also supports scaling of a resized process graphic and navigation controls to go backward and forward in a chain of previously displayed graphics. Technology Roadmap The enterprise EDS is a dynamic product that is often updated to reflect new functionality, new technology features for the hardware platforms, and new cyber security provisions. The current EDS 9.1 available in 2013 includes these features: mobile solution (ieds for iphone and ipad) whole production set at your fingertip over a secure VPN connection easy navigation through a multi-level enterprise hierarchy spread across different geographic locations from executive level KPI and key process measurements to detailed technical data point information, live and historical plots, live alarms, historical events, live DSC graphics buffering at data interface level integration with Ovation Historian MS Excel multi-server connectivity ready corporate solutions - ETL for data warehousing and reporting applications (i.e. ORACLE, Business Intelligence, Balanced Score Cards) A right mouse-click on a graphic s active area, for example a displayed process value, initiates a pop-up menu which launches an EDS trend or point information application for the associated process point. Trends The EDS terminal can trend current and past data for up to eight selectable process points. Trend assignments can be made by dragging and dropping points from process graphics or other EDS terminal applications into the trending diagram. Points can be saved to trend groups for easy and quick initiation at a later time. The EDS trend window can be launched from any process graphic, the EDS point list, or the EDS trend group window. Special features allow for changing the trends time and value ranges, and viewing process values at the time indicated by the cursor and users can annotate trend and point values to assist in later data analysis. Trend groups can be created and saved at the client. The EDS Annotation feature allows users to select a trend and add an annotation. The annotation provides an explanation for the occurrence. All information is then stored in historian for retrieval by any user

6 EDS Development Events management in EDS The EDS events list application allows viewing of current and past occurrences of points alarmed within the EDS server and alarms replicated from data sources and systems. A key feature is the EDS maintains the original time stamp of the data source. Switching from the current to a past view is accomplished by selecting the radio button on the event list window. The EDS events function supports eight levels of alarms, each with a unique user-configurable color; and provides event printing and exporting capability. EDS Report System The new EDS functionality planned in near future: Historical Data replay on process screens Aggregation of historical data for speed up trending and long term analysis notification / reporting functionality Alarm system enhancements (new alarm import options, tools for statistical analysis of alarms) Partial support of SNMP feeder in EDS Improved customer environment - (Control Studio, Performance Studio, etc.) New compression algorithms (SLIM1, SLIM3) The EDS report system is a powerful tool to create and execute process data reports. The report system consists of two parts: the report editor and the report monitor. The EDS report editor contains tools to define report layouts in a spreadsheet-like application window. The layout window is organized by a grid of cells where process values and mathematical expressions can be programmed, as well as special functions for process values, point attributes, and summary results. The EDS report monitor schedules selectable reports for periodic execution (e.g. hourly, daily, weekly), assigns the report to run based on a process condition, or manually requests the report to output. The EDS reports can be generated at the clients or output to the Server for global across the system as various formatted file types. These are text files, native.rdf reports, diagram.edf files, HTML pages, and comma separated variables CSV. The other option is output directed to the database as Native.rdf, or, diagram.edf, or HTML. Key advantage to database archival is these are available to all clients. Graphics Builder Designated users can be supplied with a version of the EDS Terminal that includes additional tools within the Process Diagram Display window for graphics creation and editing; including functions for drawing element creation, cut / copy / paste, and item group/ungroup. The diagram builder s drawing functions allow construction of graphic elements made of lines, arcs, rectangles, and ellipses. Process point elements produce place holders for numeric values to be displayed during run-time. Bars and trends represent process values visually as charts within the process graphic. Process graphics can also be created by using the EDS graphics source language. This language is based on the Emerson DCS graphics language with a syntax that is similar to the C application programming language. Web Portal EDS data is also available in user-friendly customized portal (web application). It may be delivered as a customized portal or web service. The customized portal is a fully engineered and integrated corporate portal with additional custom features such as Web-based reporting systems, external database links, and O&M functions. These data management solutions are available on various operating systems. Excel Plug In The EDS Excel plug in feature allows importation of values from the EDS live data function, or from archived (historical) data sets. The point descriptions, value, and time samples are all available, as well as the EDS functions (99) including the Steam Tables.

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