Share Data from One Device or System with Other Systems Using Bridging

What is data bridging?

Many projects involve needing to associate data points in one system with corresponding data points in another system and transfer data between the two, referred to as "bridging" the data between the two systems.

In the past, this task was commonly accomplished in a control system through some form of scripting. However, depending on your control system, this could be time and cost prohibitive.

Rather than rely on scripting for bridging data between systems, an off-the-shelf bridging solution saves time and ensures reliable transfers of your process data between systems.

Data bridging for TOP Server drivers, other OPC servers and more with Cogent DataHub

The Cogent DataHub makes bridging between various data sources easy by providing an intuitive data bridging interface that allows you to define the point-to-point mappings. You can even go further by defining linear transformations that can be applied to the data as it passes from one system to another. For example, consider that you have a temperature in Degrees °F on one system and you want to map it to a system that is using Degrees °C.

Bridging makes this easy. And DataHub's wide variety of data interfaces allows bridging between far more than just OPC systems.

Redundant bridging between OPC DA servers with LinkMaster

The LinkMaster can move data between points in the same or different OPC DA servers connecting to different vendors devices with simple drag-and-drop configuration. LinkMaster also supports bi-directional bridges, eliminating the need to configure multiple bridges for the same points.

Additionally, LinkMaster also has built-in redundancy that allows a pair of LinkMaster machines to operate in redundant pairs where one LinkMaster machine operates as the "Primary" node and the other as the "Secondary" node to virtually eliminate lapses in bridging functionality.