Software Toolbox Technical Blog

Welcome back to our blog! In our previous post, Protecting Historical Data Integrity Using Store & Forward, we walked through several architectures that leverage Cogent DataHub to securely historize data while minimizing the risk of data loss. Today, we will expand on this concept by putting it into practice.

Why It Matters

Even a brief connection outage can lead to gaps in historized data, compliance risks, and lost insights. Store and Forward ensures your data is continuously captured and preserved, buffering data during interruptions and forwarding seamlessly once connections recover, so your operations stay resilient and reliable.

Welcome back to the Summer of IoT Blog Series. In this blog we’ll explore how Cogent DataHub’s External Historian and built-in Store and Forward features ensure efficient data flow without risking network security at the plant or enterprise level.

As organizations work toward Industry 4.0 and digital transformation, ensuring secure and reliable OT/IT convergence is essential for breaking down data silos and creating cohesion between your business systems. IoT devices provide real-time data and connectivity to transform traditional industrial operations. Complementing this, historians serve as centralized data repositories that store and organize time-series data from IoT devices and other sources. Together, the data from both fuels advanced analytics, automation, and smart decision-making across the enterprise.