Introduction¶
Visual Flow Creator nodes are specific nodes for processing the data. The nodes are only available in the Visual Flow Creator component.
Visual Flow Creator groups the nodes into the following categories:
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Function nodes | These are programmable and user defined nodes which can be customized to perform different functions. |
| Analytics nodes | These nodes prepare the time series data read out from Industrial IoT with analytics methods. |
| Storage nodes | The storage nodes provide functionalities to access MongoDB or Postgres databases. |
| Array nodes | These nodes represent function methods like filter, map, find and reduce for arrays. |
| Dashboard nodes | These nodes provide a set of nodes for reading, visualizing and analyzing data on a live dashboard. |
| Network nodes | These nodes are used only for productive cases or to connect with connectivity features. |
| Link nodes | These nodes allows you to create virtual connection between the flows which exists in any flow tab. |
| Simatic Notifier node | These nodes allows to integrate with Simatic Notifier application. |
| MindConnect nodes | These nodes are used to write the values of the datapoint, send a command to MindConnect MQTT device and check the status of the sent command. |
| Work Order nodes | These nodes are used to create a basic workflow to digitize work requests that are essential to monitor asset health and to detect technical issues before they lead to asset failure and downtime. |
| Predictive Learning (PRL) nodes | These nodes combines analytics, statistics and machine learning algorithms to provide unmatched insight into trends in your data. |
| Industrial IoT nodes | There are two types of Industrial IoT nodes. You can use the Industrial IoT in nodes to read data, such as time series, into a flow. Industrial IoT out nodes are used to write the data using services. |
| Insights Hub Business Intelligence nodes | These nodes allows to create custom visualizations of your data. |
| Integrated Data Lake and Data Contextualization (IDL and dtx) nodes | IDL nodes allows you to store structured and unstructured data or objects in its native format as needed. Dtx nodes provides a simple way to prepare data for establishing semantic correlations and data query processing. |
| IIoT Dashboard nodes | The dashboard allow you to build, create and interchange dashboard nodes and default dashboard nodes in one single dashboard. |
| Pump-Simulation node | These nodes allows to generate the time series data of a pump. |
| Custom nodes | The custom nodes helps to design and deploy your own customized nodes if any of the required nodes are not available in Visual Flow Creator. |
Note
- Rules are configured by a specific user, these rules are executed in a system context for the entire environment.
- With this, the user access to specific assets is managed by the rule is restricted at the later point of time. The rule will be executed irrespective access restrictions of the user. This an intended system behavior.
Last update: July 18, 2024