OIBus

OIBus is a software application that can be run on Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems. It is designed to extract data from industrial sources by utilizing multiple protocols, such as OPCUA-HA, OPCHDA, Modbus, MQTT and many more. It can also retrieve data by scanning folders. Once the data is collected, OIBus can transmit it to your enterprise applications.

Optimistik is using OIBus on many industrial sites to send data to its OIAnalytics solution to query from 10 to over 10.000 points with sampling rate at the second level.

OIBus can be installed and configured in minutes and does not need development skills.

Introduction

OIBus is intended to simplify the data collection. We, at Optimistik, felt we had a missing piece between NodeRed and proprietary products for a tool able to solve most of the common requirements for industrial communications and very fast to set up.

OIBus is composed of 3 layers.

• The Engine that orchestrates everything and is configured through an admin interface
• Several South connectors that will retrieve data from a given technology (SQL, OPCUA, MQTT, Modbus...)
• Several North connectors that will be able to transfer the data to application such as OIAnalytics, Rest API, Timeseries databases, MQTT broker...

You can learn more about OIBus by reading our documentation.

Build and deploy step

• Fork the OIBus repository and clone it. Be sure to have NodeJS and npm installed (LTS versions).
• Backend: open a terminal in the backend folder cd backend
  • Install the node dependencies: npm install
  • Run the backend: npm start
• Frontend: open a terminal in the frontend folder cd frontend
  • Install the node dependencies : npm install
  • Run the frontend: npm start
  • Access the application on http://localhost:2223 (default port)
• You can compile OIBus on your appropriate distribution. To do that:
  • In the frontend folder, run npm install and npm run build
  • In the backend folder, run the command associated to the distribution you want to build OIBus: npm run build:win, npm run build:linux, npm run build:macos, npm run build:macos-arm64
  • You can now start OIBus from its binaries with npm run start:win, npm run start:linux, npm run start:macos or npm run start:macos-arm64

A more complete developer guide is accessible on our developer documentation.