Insights Hub Basics¶

Learn how the fundamental concepts of the Insights Hub collaborate to guide you toward your objectives.

The data you bring into Insights Hub originates from your site & things. These data points are gathered by sensors on your local machines or field devices, which are connected to the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) that collects specific data points. The hardware or software-based gateway then collects data from all connected PLCs and sends your predefined data to the Insights Hub.

Agent Asset, the digital representation of your gateway, sends your data to your data model. Within the data model, you can view your virtual assets, which represent the local setup of your physical machines.

You can read and write your data to APIs & Services, using either Out of the box Apps or Custom built Apps & Solutions from Siemens or third parties; as well as System Tools. These applications perform analyses, create dashboards and fulfill your important use cases.

Your solutions and apps can also use different ingestible data sources, such as enterprise systems, edge applications or data that is available in the cloud. These can be ingested in the Insights Hub via different possibilities, directly into the Integrated Data Lake. Data Integration and Management allows the data to be managed and analyzed in the same way as the data from your devices.

The following hosting options are offered to customers:

Public Cloud Versions: Available on Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Private Cloud (LPC): For customers who prefer to use Insights Hub within their own data centers. These customers need to set up their own infrastructure services, such as RedHat, OpenShift or Rancher, on which Insights Hub will be installed.
Cloud Dedicated (VPC): Enables customers to install Insights Hub on an already existing HyperScaler account, such as AWS or Azure.

Last update: October 10, 2024

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