OIBus is an executable (Windows, Linux and Mac) able to query data from your industrial sources using various protocols (including OPCUA-HA, OPCHDA, Modbus, MQTT) or simply by scanning folders and will send them to your enterprise applications.
Optimistik is using OIBus on many industrial sites to send data to its OIAnalytics solution to query from 10 to over 10.000 points with sampling rate at the second level.
OIBus can be installed and configured in minutes and does not need development skills.
OIBus is intended to simplify the data collection. We, at Optimistik, felt we had a missing piece between NodeRed and proprietary products for a tool able to solve most of the common requirements for industrial communications and very fast to set up.
OIBus is composed of 3 layers.
- The Engine that orchestrates everything and is configured through an admin interface
- Several South connectors that will retrieve data from a given technology (SQL, OPCUA, MQTT, Modbus...)
- Several North connectors that will be able to transfer the data to application such as OIAnalytics, Rest API, Timeseries databases, MQTT broker...
You can know more about OIBus by reading our documentation.
- Fork the OIBus repository and clone it. Be sure to have NodeJS and npm installed (LTS versions).
- Install the node dependencies :
npm install - Build the web client used to display the OIBus interface in a web browser :
npm run build:web-client. If you want to modify the web client, you must rebuild it. Alternatively, you can build it on changes withnpm run watch:web-client. - Start OIBus from source with
npm start - You can compile OIBus on your appropriate distribution with
npm run build:win,npm run build:linuxornpm run build:macos. - You can start OIBus from its binaries with
npm run start:win,npm run start:linuxornpm run start:macos.
A more complete developer guide is accessible on our developer documentation.