AggreGate IoT Integration Platform Device Management

2018

AggreGate 5.6

On November 14, 2018 the Tibbo Systems company, the software maker for control of intelligent devices, announced release of the next version of the platform for Internet of Things of AggreGate.

In version 5.6 the AggreGate platform became even more web focused. With online store users can optimize system configuration, loading and connecting only those modules and technologies which are necessary within the project and also adding them as required.

The universal driver will allow to add support of proprietary protocols by configuring of a system, without development of separate modules of drivers of devices in the Java language.

The analytical AggreGate tool — the correlator of events — allows to analyze data in real time, to transform them, to keep track of dependences, to find the set patterns, to select trends and many other things.

JavaScript API — it is implementation of AggreGate API in the most widespread programming language. Now it is possible to create modern web interfaces and to communicate with the server in one language — JavaScript, reported in the company. One of the main features of this API is interactive interaction with a uniform data model of the AggreGate server.

The AggreGate web interface had an opportunity to work independently under control of the Tomcat Web server. The web application unrolled thus does not become attached to the specific server, and can be connected to other servers. So now via one web application it is possible to work with several AggreGate servers at once. Process of management of licenses can be automated by means of integration into the licensing server now. Administrators of the AggreGate servers do not need to trace the period of action and a set of the plug-ins provided in the current license any more and to change them manually if necessary.

Among other features:

• new types of tables for ensuring support of work with big arrays of information;
• algorithm of control of an expense of memory;
• customization of appearance of conventional components;
• scaling in the graphics editor;
• self-diagnostics panel;
• updating of storage of events;
• the Avatars driver allowing to work with the device of other server as with local, and many other things.

AggreGate 5.5

On February 13, 2017 Tibbo Systems announced release of updating of the platform for Internet of Things of AggreGate 5.5. According to the developer by opportunities of analytics and data processing of AggreGate it became more similar to the solution Business Intelligence, than to IoT the platform. In this release machine learning, the visual editor of processes and also modules for work with Big Data is provided.

The instrument of machine learning allows data processing specialists to analyze flows of time series and data bulks for extraction of necessary knowledge. The trained modules are built in a uniform data model of AggreGate that gives them the chance to exchange data with any other objects, devices and data sources of the platform.

The visual editor of processes acts as other significant updating. Using it, becomes possible to integrate logic of the server and interactive interaction with the operator in uniform process. At the same time creation of different algorithms of data processing and decision making does not require skills of programming. In release of AggreGate 5.5 graph databases which allow to work with structured data in more natural type are available, well are suitable for the analysis of structures and dependences of data and also configuration management (CMDB).

Important improvement also is updating of the editor of reports. Now as the editor of reports Jaspersoft Studio is used. Tens of visual components, advanced instruments of data processing along with support of a set of formats of export allow to create interactive reports and to provide analytics for needs of any projects.

Thanks to packets of resources which simplify and automate creation of plug-ins of resources, it became easier to replicate the user "turnkey" solutions.

Among other improvements:

• Support of relay charts
• Scaling of widgets
• Storage of statistical data in NoSQL
• Authentication plug-ins
• Fall forward of the appeal to variables
• Built-in HTTP server

In AggreGate 5.5 steels are available the functions concerning improvement of language of expressions (decode, username, login, tableFromCSV, fetchDataBlock), but also, in new release the range of drivers extended, having included Ethernet/IP, XMPP, IEC 60870-5-104 Server.

2017: AggreGate 5.4

On March 31, 2017 the Tibbo company announced release of the version of the platform for Internet of Things of AggreGate 5.4.

In the version the capacity of the AggreGate server, storage of events and updates is increased. Now one server is capable to process and save to hundred thousand events/updates per second. Use of high-end servers is not required.

Screenshot of the software window, (2017)

Also the AggreGate text languages developed according to the SoftPLC standard (IEC 61131-3) that allows to use AggreGate as a process management logic development environment are entered into structure of software graphics. For March 31, 2017 two graphics languages are available: Function Block Diagram, Sequential Function Chart and text - Structured Text.

SDK of visual components is created. In version 5.4 of a possibility of widgets are not limited to a set of conventional components. The developer kit for writing of own visual components in the Java language is added.

In the interface of version 5.4 icons are updated. Color keying of icons of the toolbars simplifies navigation between different actions.

Among other changes:

• Built-in time marks.
• The connectors of components for charts allowing to connect interface components with each other.
• Safe communication with the agent due to enciphering and/or compression of communications under the AggreGate protocol.
• Granulation - the flexible instrument of collecting and consolidation of data, gives the chance to squeeze data arrays, selecting from them important information for further processing.
• The remote update of the server which is not requiring departure on an object.

Release 5.4 upgrades AggreGate Network Manager. Now it is a full-function management system for c IT services for tools:

• configuration management database (Configuration Management Database, CMDB),
• mechanism of work with metrics
• instruments of identification of the prime cause on the basis of topology.
• the ITSM function is the module of management of the IP addresses (IPAM).

In version 5.4 drivers became available: CoAP, MQTT, IEC 104, DLMS/COSEM, SMI-S.

2016: AggreGate 5.3

AggreGate 5.3 gives new opportunities in the field of GIS, additional mechanisms of integration and improvement of compatibility with OPC and also an advanced usability at the expense of the new Designer of dashboards who will allow to forget about an old inconvenient method of adjusting and to edit panels in an interactive mode.

AggreGate 5.3 received the new module of data visualization – Processes which gives the chance to configure difficult client-server processes with conditions and branching. For example, to set actions of the operator at emergence of an incident, etc.

Level of data collection of the platform was complemented with new drivers among which: Message stream, IPMI, CWMP, Web Transaction.

Considering needs of our clients, IoT the AggreGate platform in version 5.3 found new option of a widget of the Chart of dynamic processes with enhanced capabilities of viewing data in real time and historical data, including viewfinders and management of series.

Among other improvements: regulator of ranges, pop-up widgets, centralized operation by firmwares, REST API and other useful functions and applications.

2015: AggreGate 5.2

On June 10, 2015 the Tibbo company announced release of the version of the AggreGate 5.2 platform.

As a part of release of AggreGate 5.2 support of Big Data, a possibility of universal search and intelligent data analysis, API and means for development of Agents on C/C ++, additions for all vertical solutions, including Network Manager, SCADA/HMI and others.

The AggreGate 5.2 interface provides a single window of search and displays the results based on previously indexed database. Now it is possible to look for devices to the IP addresses, and variables by name, to the description and value. The configured search robot indexes a context, determinations of variables/functions/events / actions, values of variables. Search results reflect changes in a system.

Screenshot of an application window of search, 2015

AggreGate 5.2 included two basic modules:

• Mass object management
• Dashboards of objects.

A system allows creation of new business objects (assets or requests for maintenance), determination of parameters and a possibility of storage of millions of copies of objects in a relational database for their further viewing, search and filtering.

In the AggreGate platform the possibility of use of databases of NoSQL as storage is implemented. Apache Cassandra and BerkleyDB Java Edition provide fast updating of a configuration (20-50 thousand updates per second on the server) and very high rates of storage of histories/events (10-20 thousand samples per second on the server). Both databases support failover clustering for ensuring high data availability and a standard clustering for scaling of a system.

Among improvements of a system developers noted:

• stationary mode suitable for interactive terminals and applications with the touchpad,
• function of preserving of the layout of graphs,
• protocols of a streaming video,
• drivers of devices (local agent, local system, Omron of FINS),
• advanced opportunities of representation of network topology
• others.

2014: AggreGate 5.1

On December 8, 2014 Tibbo Technology Inc., IoT producer of devices and the software for control of intelligent devices, announced release of version 5.1 of the AggreGate platform.

The main difference of new version 5.1 - the web interface on the basis of HTML5 (AggreGate Web Desktop) which supplements the existing interface of the browser based on Java. Web Desktop does not require installation Java on the user's computer, allowing to work daily on tablets and smartphones with operating systems Android and iOS and also the majority of other mobile devices.

AggreGate Web Desktop does not limit in anything activity of the operator, allowing to use maps, plans, forms, symbolic circuits and other interfaces which were developed in the editor of interfaces of AggreGate.

Level of data collection of the platform was complemented with a set of new drivers of devices, including OPC UA, DNP3, MeterBus, SOAP, CORBA, SIP, VMware of API, Asterisk Manager Interface, the general GPS/GLONASS Tracker driver and others.

Other basic improvements include inheritance of access rights, authentication using the Active Directory or LDAP, the general API for aggregation of these time series, management of foreign tables of the database, support of networks of virtual devices and many other things.