Contexts

Most applications only have the one context, which is automatically created when you first install ARDI.

The default context is called 'Actual' and represents the real, measured data from your assets.

Each context can link asset properties to a complete different set of data sources.

For example, your Actual Pressure might come from a InfluxDB historian, while your Simulated Pressure from an OPC-UA-compliant simulator and your Snapshot Pressure from a simple text-file.

ARDI allows you to view trends, charts and virtual environments for each of these contexts.

You can also compare your values both within a between contexts, live or historical.

This means that if you had an actual, simulated and ideal context, you could compare….

• Your live measurements vs a the actual measurements taken two weeks ago.
• Your live measurements against the ideal measurements.
• Your historical measurements against what the simulator expected.
• Your simulated measurements vs the ideal etc.

Only the actual context (which usually contains your real-world information) includes live data. All other contexts only include historical data sources.