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Connect data source

For Rhize to listen to and handle manufacturing events, you need to connect a data source.

Prerequisites

To add a data source, you need the following:

  • Access to an MQTT or OPC UA server
  • Credentials for this server, if necessary
  • The URL and connection string for this server (Rhize will point to this)

Steps to connect

The process has two sides:

  • Sending topics from your MQTT, OPCUA, or NATS server to Rhize.

  • In Rhize, defining the data source and its associated objects.

    To do this, you can create entities in the Rhize UI or through its GraphQL API.

Model the data source in the Rhize UI

  1. Enter the Rhize UI and go to Master Data > Data sources.
  2. Add the connection string, topics, and other necessary parameters. For details of what these fields mean, review the Data source object reference.
  3. Create and then change version state to Active.

Now add the data source to its equipment (or, if it doesn’t exist model new equipment):

  1. Select the equipment, then Data sources.
  2. If the equipment has properties bound to this data source, create the properties, then configure them as BOUND to the data source.

Once active, Rhize reaches out to this data source and synchronizes the equipment properties to the bound topics.

Next steps

Now that you have the data source sending data you can: