Stream. Backfill. Analyze.
Extend your AVEVA PI System for modern data platforms.
PI Data Integrator enables scalable, real-time data access – helping your teams move faster without re-architecting your PI System.
Connect your AVEVA PI System with Azure, Google Cloud,
or your on-premises data platform.
Unlock real-time analytics and AI – without disrupting
your PI environment
Architecture overview:
how PI Data Integrator works
The diagram below illustrates the end-to-end architecture of PI Data Integrator – from PI data ingestion through processing and orchestration to streaming or batch export into
cloud and on-premises data platform destinations.
What PI Data Integrator enables:
Real-Time and batch data ingestion
High-frequency data can be ingested using two modes, depending on the requirements of BI dashboards and monitoring workloads.
Historical backfilling
Full synchronization of PI Data Archive – essential for long-term
analytics and AI.
AF structure support
Read AF hierarchy, attributes and metadata.
Data quality ＆ monitoring
Status tracking, retries, and error handling built in.
Modern data platform ready
Integration with modern data platforms in Azure, Google Cloud, and
on-premises environments.
User friendly interface
(Smart RDM)
A simple UI for configuring,
scheduling and tracking performance of data flows.
Stop fighting with PI data
This e-book explains why the AVEVA PI ecosystem, while essential for collecting industrial operational data, often becomes a bottleneck when organizations try to use it for analytics and AI.
Key pain points the e-book addresses:
- Analytics workloads putting performance pressure on the PI System, which is designed primarily for real-time data acquisition.
- Slow and complex data access for BI and data science teams that depend on PI as their main data source.
- Fragmented and duplicated data extraction pipelines built by different teams across the organization.
- Limited scalability for advanced analytics and AI, especially when processing multi-year industrial datasets.
- Data quality, structure, and reporting challenges that arise when raw
time-series data is used directly for business analytics.
Who is PI Data Integrator best suited for?
Built for engineers, architects and analysts who rely
on AVEVA PI
PI Administrators / OT Engineers
Need a stable, automated way to deliver PI data into IT systems.
IT/OT Architects
Looking for a scalable, cloud-ready pipeline that doesn’t overload PI.
Business Intelligence teams
Want BI dashboards powered by near real-time data.
Data Scientists ＆ AI Engineers
Need historical signal data to train ML and leverage RAG with an LLM model to provide contextual insights.
Operations, Maintenance ＆ Reliability Managers
Need up-to-date performance, OEE and anomaly detection insights.
Business managers
Who need real-time data to make decisions.
Why PI Data Integrator?
A modern integration layer designed specifically for AVEVA PI users:
- Near real-time data access – stream PI time series data into cloud-native services
- Batch with full historical backfilling – automatically retrieve and synchronize historical PI data for analytics and AI.
- Stable, monitored ＆ controlled data transfer – retry, quality checks and full transparency via Smart RDM.
- On-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployment – Kubernetes-native, supporting Apache Kafka and cloud platforms such as Azure and Google Cloud.
Case Study: Check, how a leading energy
company modernized PI data pipelines
using PI Data Integrator.
Results achieved:
- Real-time streaming to cloud
- Full historical data transfer
- Zero disruption to PI
- Faster reporting and analytics activation
Business outcomes you can reach
Transform the way your organization uses PI data:
- Enable enterprise-wide access to PI data without affecting
performance of historian.
- Accelerate analytics projects with streaming, ready-to-use data sets.
- Support AI use cases with complete historical backfills.
- Harmonize data across multiple sites for unified reporting.
- Reduce manual engineering work by replacing scripts and CSV
exports with automated data streams.
- Build a modern data architecture on top of the existing PI Installation.
Contact us
Ready to modernize your PI data? Let’s talk.
Whether you want real-time dashboards, full historical analytics or a cloud migration path – PI Data Integrator gives you a reliable, scalable and low-effort way to unlock the full value of your PI data.
Karol Woźniak
AI Data ＆ Cloud Unit Manager