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Project Overview
Purpose The purpose of this project is to provide new users a hands-on experience of installing, licensing, and configuring Canary's software. Prerequisites Canary Installer Demo license Windows…
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Installing the Software
Run the CanaryInstaller.exe as an admin and select Custom Install. Check the following components. More components can be selected as desired if wanting to install/test other components of the…
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Opening and Navigating the Software
Once installation is complete, the software can be configured by opening the Canary Admin client. You will first be presented with a login screen where you can provide Windows credentials using a…
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Licensing the Software
Open the Licenses tile within the Canary Admin. If your machine has internet access, fill out the information under the ADD LICENSE THROUGH INTERNET window on the right using the Serial Number…
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Data Logging
For this part of the project we will be configuring the OPC and MQTT Collectors to log data to their respective DataSets in the Historian. OPC logging sessions will target a Kepware instance hosted…
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Data Transport
Once data has been logged using one of Canary's Collectors, it is handed off to the Store & Forward (SaF) service where it is sent to its destination, whether it be a local or remote Historian.…
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Data Storage
DataSets When data arrives at the Historian, it is stored in DataSets which act like folders organizing data by its various sources. As a best practice,…
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Data Contextualization
At this point, you could begin consuming data using Canary's visualization tool, Axiom, the Excel Add-in, or pull the data into a 3rd party application using Canary's ODBC Connector or Read API;…
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Calcs & Events
This module covers Canary's Calculation service. The Calculation service acts as a client, connecting to the Views service to read data from the Historian to perform "jobs" which are outputted in the…
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Axiom
This module covers Canary's main reporting tool, Axiom. As there are many steps in building a dashboard application, a video has been provided to demonstrate the various controls and functions Axiom…
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Publisher
This module covers Canary's Publisher service. The Publisher connects to the Views service to read real-time data from the Historian to send it to 3rd parties using MQTT, Kafka,…
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Read API
Canary offers a native gRPC API and a web API for both reading and writing data. This module focuses solely on the web Read API. To test, we suggest downloading Postman and following the instructions…
Build your own Canary project one step at a time. Learn to configure OPC UA and MQTT logging sessions, build asset models, add calculated tags, create Axiom applications, and publish data to other systems.