Cogent DataHub Products

Purpose-specific sets of DataHub functions

Each product provides a selected set of DataHub features to connect and integrate real-time and historical data.

DataHub software integrates data from a number of data sources into a single, unified data set (also known as unified namespace) and provides the only secure way to move industrial data from OT to IT without requiring any inbound firewall ports of VPNs. DataHub is unmatched for versatility, power, speed, security, and ease of use.

Cogent DataHub products wheel diagram

It offers quick, automatic parsing based on IETF JSON schemas, and supports multiple simultaneous JSON formats, as well as MQTT Sparkplug. DataHub technology offers options for integrating other protocols—OPC DA, OPC UA, Modbus, ODBC, DDE—with any MQTT client.

DataHub Smart MQTT Broker diagram

DataHub software makes it easy to connect your OPC-enabled system to virtually any MES, device cloud, or big data analytics platform using MQTT, Sparkplug B, or REST. It comes pre-configured for Azure IoT Hub, Google IoT, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon IoT Core. With optional External Historian, you gain the reliability of store-and-forward and local historical data visibility with a single configuration.

IoT-Gateway Diagram

DataHub technology provided in a Microsoft Azure Managed Application for secure, real-time industrial data communications. Make secure connections between machines, applications and embedded systems that utilize real-time data.

DataHub service for Microsoft Azure - Network isolation diagram

The DataHub™ OPC Gateway™ converts real-time, streaming OPC UA data to DA or vice-versa. Using the Gateway, you can connect any OPC DA server or client to any OPC UA server or client, locally or over the plant network.

OPC Gateway Diagram

Tunnellers provide easy-to-configure, secure, and robust networking for data protocols that are difficult to connect or that rely on insecure architectures. The Cogent DataHub Tunnellers go beyond the basics, letting you integrate your data without exposing your networks.

No DCOM Hassles, no VPNs, no inbound firewall ports into operations network.

Datahub UA Tunneller diagram

Loggers connect the Cogent DataHub to databases for data logging and queries. They work with any ODBC-compliant database—SQL, MySQL, PI, Oracle, and many more.

OPC Logger diagram

Analyze or display it using any of the historian’s analytical, reporting, or graphing tools, as well as DataHub WebView and OPC UA HDA clients. Connect to Influx DB, Amazon Kinesis, AVEVA™ Historian and AVEVA™, OSIsoft Pi, RESTful Systems, Kafka, ODBC, Azure Event Hubs, or OPC Classic HDA.

External historian diagram

The DataHub OPC Bridge™ lets you connect OPC servers, so that a change in one piece of equipment can be communicated directly to another.

OPC Bridge diagram

A full, web-based HMI, the DataHub Webview application lets you drag and drop desktop-quality graphics to build HMI screens right inside your browser. Display live data in real time from OPC servers and clients, databases, Modbus, devices, Excel, embedded systems, and more.

WebView diagram

The original OPC DataHub provided a standard set of features to support OPC connectivity and provide an OPC-based tool for data integration. With the advent of the Cogent DataHub, the OPC DataHub became part of the larger DataHub family of products. Since the introduction of Cogent DataHub v8.0, the OPC DataHub is available in OPC DA or OPC UA protocols.

OPC-DA-UA DataHub features

Track computer performance across your organization using the DataHub System Monitor™. You decide what system parameters and critical processes to monitor, and access the data as DataHub points that can be shared across a network or the Internet in real-time.

DataHub System Monitor diagram

The DataHub Modbus OPC Server provides reliable real-time bi-directional connectivity between multiple Modbus TCP devices and any OPC enabled applications.

Modbus OPC-server diagram

Access your process data from Microsoft Excel™. Run real-time analysis on production numbers, calculate statistics, create your own charts, and more. Leverage the power of the world’s most popular spreadsheet anywhere in your operation.

Excel connections diagram