ABB Ability™ History

Getting started

Context

Architecture

Time Series Data Ingestion

Using time series data

Creating system topologies

Administration

Calculations

User interface

Tutorials

How-tos

Support

Performance

ABB Ability™ History is capable of processing millions of time-series values per second. It provides scalability and performance from low footprint systems to enterprise-wide historians.

High availability

ABB Ability™ History supports redundant multi-node setups. These provide high availability, efficient load sharing, and better performance during failures.

Security

ABB Ability™ History provides the latest security features out-of-the-box. All interfaces require authentication, and audit trail logs are collected. Further, data security is applied to all public interfaces, and data is always encrypted on-transit.

Information modeling

ABB Ability™ History provides powerful tools to model physical devices and processes. History's information model is an integrated part of the system and supports model-based application development. You can conveniently access your time-series data using the model of your process.

Open standards

ABB Ability™ History integrates effortlessly to other industrial systems. Industry standards, such as OPC (Classic and UA) and Modbus, make connecting devices to History easy and straightforward. Using History's interfaces, such as ODBC and OData, you can access all your data the same way, despite the source of the data.

Life-cycle support

ABB Ability™ History allows you to create systems whose lifetime is counted in decades instead of years. Upgrading History to the latest version is straightforward. Backward compatible interfaces ensure that your integrated applications continue working after the upgrade.