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Product AVEVA™ PI Server
Categories Event Frames (EF)
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 20, 2022

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Store event frame start and end time as DateTime to allow sub-millisecond duration event frames

Because event frame start and end time are stored as a bigint datatype in PIFD.dbo.AFEventFrame, the precision only seems to be to the nearest millisecond. This is a problem for sub-millisecond event frames. Why aren't event frame start and end times stored as DateTime datatypes?
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  • Guest
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    |     Aug 20, 2022
    Hi, can you provide some example use cases? What type of events are you trying to capture with event frames?
  • Asle Frantzen
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    |     Aug 20, 2022
    Hi Steve. Ben created this feedback item for me. We're doing a project for a T&D company, and they have done a large IoT project together with some partners. The project aims to give extra insight in their switchgear operations with all the benefits of inexpensive, stand-alone sensor units, which can be retro-fitted to any circuit breaker, disconnector, earthing switch, etc. Their transmission system is relatively stabile, resulting in not many switchgear operations. If one operation occurs at a circuit breaker, it could easily be a year until the next operation (or they could occur back-to-back for a few repetitions). Once something happens, they record everything - and need to do it with precision. An operation may result in 10 000 values, and a whole motor current event may have a duration of 200 ms. This is my event frame! In the case I reported to techsupport, I'm missing 11 out of 12 values occuring within the last millisecond of the event. That is, between 2019-11-27 14:26:33.0340000 and 2019-11-27 14:26:33.0349167. The latter timestamp is the end time I'm trying to set, but both PI System Explorer and AF SDK simply truncates everything less than 1 ms. Had it actually rounded the number up to .035 all my time series data would have been included, so that's what I'll be doing programmatically now.
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 20, 2022
    Thanks Asle, we'll look into this.