Import Data from a PI Server

This import functionality is built on the Web API, and requires the following.

• The PI Web Server to be deployed and running.

• The PI Asset Framework must be installed and configured.

• The PI Web Server OSIsoft Message Format (OMF) protocol must be enabled.

• The PI Web Server’s search feature must be enabled.

PI Server data is typically machine generated and collected at defined intervals. The interval time can be short, leading to large amounts of data. For example, you have a process that is being monitored. Every 15 minutes, data is collected from various sensors and this data is sent to the PI Server. In another application, sensor readings can be collected more frequently, for example, every millisecond. The table below illustrates how this can lead to a large amount of data.

Table 3.6 Example of Collected Data
Number of sensors	10	10	10
Data Collected Every Unit of Time	15	1	1
Units of Time	Minutes	Seconds	Milliseconds
Units of Time per Day	96	86,400	86,400,000
Data Points per Day	960	864,000	864,000,000
Data Points per Month	29,200	26,280,000	26,280,000,000
Data Points per Year	350,400	315,360,000	315,360,000,000

The PI Server can import the following types of data:

• raw data

• plot data

• interpolated data

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