Category Archives: WinCC OA

Raspberry Pi Sensors connected to WinCCOA by NodeRed and MQTT…

Posted on 29. November 2016 by vogler
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SCADA System is tweeting….

Posted on 18. November 2016 by vogler

This can be easily achieved by connecting WinCC OA to NodeRed by MQTT. From Node Red it is possible to connect to Twitter and publish tweets. I installed a MQTT server Mosquitto on my SCADA server and connected WinCC OA … Continue reading →

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Monitoring with Logstash and WinCC OA…

Posted on 11. October 2016 by vogler

  For example we do this with the Oracle Alert Log. Very often an Oracle Database is used with WinCC OA to store history values. But a lot of times no one takes care of the Oracle database. At least the … Continue reading →

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Observing WinCC OA Logs with Elasticsearch and Logstash…

Posted on 10. October 2016 by vogler

With Logstash we can collect the logs of WinCC OA systems and write it to Elasticsearch. Multiple WinCC OA system’s can be observed with a central log database… With Kibana the logs can be easily discovered – I now see errors what i … Continue reading →

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WinCC OA connected to Apache Kafka…

Posted on 30. September 2016 by vogler

A WinCC OA Driver to connect WinCC OA to Apache Kafka (input & output). Available on Github https://github.com/vogler75/oa4j

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WinCC OA RDB-Manager with Oracle vs MongoDB

Posted on 29. July 2016 by vogler

Keep in Mind: It is not a comparison of the databases only. With Oracle we used the WinCC OA RDB Manager with OA Query-RDB Direct option, and the RDB-Manager has lot of more functionalities than the NoSQL Prototyp! The other … Continue reading →

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Streaming & Complex Event Processing (CEP) & EPL/CQL with WinCC OA…

Posted on 18. July 2016 by vogler

Complex Event Processing (CEP) and event series analysis are used for detecting situations among events. EsperTech provides the Event Processing Language (EPL) designed for concisely expressing situations and fast execution against both historical and currently-arriving events (Espertech.com). The Esper EPL … Continue reading →

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IoT with WinCC OA and Raspberry Pi (Demo at Cern)…

Posted on 11. June 2016 by vogler

I had the opportunity to demonstrate an IoT prototype based on WinCC OA on a Raspberry Pi at Cern. WinCC OA is running on the Raspberry Pi and it is sending values of a temperature sensor to my WinCC OA server at … Continue reading →

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Streaming WinCC OA Events to Apache Kafka and Spark…

Posted on 30. May 2016 by vogler

We connected a Event Data Logger, written in Java and connected to WinCC OA by JNI, to Apache Kafka, a A high-throughput distributed messaging system. Apache Spark can read data from Apache Kafka streams. Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for … Continue reading →

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Java is everywhere… WinCC OA Java Manager…

Posted on 27. May 2016 by vogler

From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere! Now connected to WinCC OA. Here you will find an implementation of an API to connect WinCC OA to Java. It is based on the WinCC … Continue reading →

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