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Product PI Interfaces
Categories General
Created by Kenneth Barber
Created on Aug 17, 2022

RELATED IDEAS

Migrate the PI Universal Interface (UniInt) Framework to use PI AF SDK

Most PI Interfaces are based on the PI Universal Interface (UniInt) Framework and rely on PI API and its successor, PI SDK. PI SDK has, in turn, been superseded by PI AF SDK. PI SDK also relies on the deprecated and insecure ActiveX technology, which PI AF SDK does not use. I don't know or want to think about how insecure PI API is, even when the Windows Integrated Security version is used.

For many data sources, the only AVEVA-supported option to get data from the data source to PI is a PI Interface, partly because an equivalent PI Connector or PI Adapter does not exist and partly because the data source has limited, mostly proprietary options for exposing its data.

Basically, PI Interfaces don't die off any time soon, yet they rely on deprecated technologies, but the PI Interfaces are in a good position to be upgraded because most of them use the same framework (UniInt). Please migrate the UniInt Framework to use PI AF SDK to help keep customers' systems secure and quicken the deaths of PI SDK and PI API, especially the latter.

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