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Platform · Historian

Keep the history, and be able to answer for it.

Telemetry and operational logs are stored in a columnar store built for volume, with retention you set and query access for the people who need to look further back than the last shift.

In the product

From a live value to its history in one click.

Every signal in the namespace opens into its recorded trend with last, average, minimum and maximum for the range. The film below follows a mixer's motor current from the tree into its history.

UNS Explorer: the Meridian namespace opened down to a mixer, with live values, trends and a tag panel.
One namespace from enterprise to tag, with live valuesSimulated plant data
Stores
Modelled telemetry, alarms and operational logs
Retention
Set per deployment for telemetry and logs; telemetry is kept until you set a limit
Query access
Read-only, single-statement queries from the product, plus reporting sources
Stays
Inside your infrastructure, history does not move to a vendor cloud

Collected once, kept as long as you decide.

Every modelled value goes into the historian with its timestamp and quality. How long it stays is a setting, not a surprise.

The same signals, from history to insight Equipment sends data through an edge gateway to Historian, then to Dashboards & reports. Controllers S7 / CIP / MELSEC Machines & robots FOCAS / MTConnect Meters & SCADA Modbus / OPC UA Modelled signals 02 / EDGE Proxus Edge Collect / evaluate / buffer 03 / PLATFORM Historian Telemetry / logs / retention Dashboards &reports Inside Proxus Databases & cloud Optional destinations Business systems MES / ERP / QMS 01 / PLANT FLOOR04 / CONSUMERS The same signals, from history to insight Read from bottom to top. Field equipment is at the bottom and data travels upward. Equipment sends data through an edge gateway to Historian, then to Dashboards & reports. 01 Plant floor PLCs / CNCs / robots 02 Proxus Edge Collect / evaluate /buffer 03 Historian Telemetry / logs /retention 04 Dashboards &reports Built into the platform

Inside Proxus

From a plant to a live signal to its history.

Recorded in the product, cursor and all · 0:18Simulated plant data

What it solves

What teams run into without it.

  • History lives in five places

    A SCADA archive, a spreadsheet export and a cloud bucket that each cover a different period and disagree at the edges.

  • Analysis blocked by access

    The data team cannot get to production history without asking someone to run an export by hand.

  • Storage that grows without a plan

    Nobody set a retention policy, so the cost curve is discovered rather than decided.

What you get

Built in, not bolted on.

  • Columnar telemetry store

    Built for high-volume time series, with bulk ingestion and compression suited to plant data rates.

  • Retention policies

    Set how long telemetry and logs are kept, per deployment. Telemetry is kept until you set a limit.

  • Trend Workspace

    Any tag’s recorded history with last, average, minimum and maximum for the range, exported to CSV or Excel. Read-only SQL for dashboards and reports: one statement, write keywords refused.

  • Reporting sources

    Reports and dashboards read from the same store, so an operational view and a monthly report read the same numbers.

  • Operational logs

    Operational logs per gateway and an audit trail of configuration changes: the evidence behind a number.

  • Export when needed

    Send results to spreadsheets or downstream tools without opening database credentials to everyone.

What this enables

What the capabilities add up to, in practice.

  • Answer questions that reach further back than the last shift
  • Set retention deliberately instead of discovering the cost curve
  • Let the data team investigate without a hand-run export
  • Recalculate a derived figure from raw history when a model changes

Detail

What gets stored

Telemetry
Modelled tag values with timestamp, quality and source
Alarms and events
Rule and anomaly outcomes with the context that triggered them
Operational logs
Collection, transformation and delivery activity per gateway
Configuration history
Pipeline revisions you can compare, and an audit trail of every other configuration change

Questions

What teams ask before the first call.

Ask something else
Where is the history stored?
In your deployment. Telemetry and operational logs go to a columnar store built for time-series volume; configuration and asset objects live in a transactional store. Neither requires a vendor cloud.
How long is data kept?
For as long as your retention policy says. Retention is set per deployment for telemetry and logs; telemetry is kept until you set a limit.
Can our data team query it directly?
Yes. The Trend Workspace charts stored values of several devices on one time axis, and read-only SQL (in dashboards and through the Telemetry API) runs one statement at a time under the same role model as everything else, so investigation does not become an outage risk.
Do we still need a separate historian?
Many plants keep an existing historian for regulatory or legacy reasons, and Proxus feeds it. If you do not have one, the built-in store covers the same job without another licence.
Can we reprocess history if a model changes?
Raw values are kept at the resolution you collected them, so recalculating a derived figure later is a matter of reading history back rather than re-collecting it.

Next step

Point it at one of your lines.

The fastest way to judge a data layer is to watch it read your own equipment. Bring one machine and one destination system, and we will build the path in front of you.

  1. 01

    Scoping call

    Equipment, protocols, sites and the systems the data has to reach.

  2. 02

    Technical walkthrough

    A working demo against a scenario that resembles your plant, not a generic tour.

  3. 03

    Pilot plan

    A defined first line or site, with the deployment and security questions answered up front.

  4. 04

    Roll-out

    The same templates bring the next lines and sites online.