Spotlight on what's important: Triggered data storage with ibaPDA and ibaHD-Server

Sending irrelevant data to a historical data server and storing them there does not only lead to an unnecessarily high bandwidth utilization and memory consumption, during the analysis, they also offer an avoidable distraction potential. Version 8.4 of ibaPDA allows to write acquired measurement data triggered into ibaHD-Server. Due to this innovation, analyses can be performed easier and faster and network load and memory usage can be optimized. Start and end triggers of a recording can be configured with the help of the recorded analog and binary signals and their linkage and can thus be perfectly adapted to the specific application. Since the process behavior around a trigger is often relevant for the data analysis, a pre- and post-trigger time can also be determined in ibaPDA. With the help of these, acquired values are written that lie before a start trigger condition and after one of the stop trigger conditions. The new features make analysis operations more efficient by allowing users to access only relevant data. For example, continuous recording can be selectively interrupted during production shutdowns on weekends or during maintenance. Even with Transient Fault Recorders, recording can be reduced to critical situations and the recording of "normal" system behavior, which is not relevant for the analysis, can be avoided.