An architecture built for real time — and for real networks.
SCAIQ™ is a distributed platform of cooperating services — connected by high-performance streaming channels.
Six decisions that shape everything.
Services, not a monolith
Each concern (acquire, process, alarm, log, visualize) is its own service; scale, deploy, and restart independently.
Never block the data path
Non-blocking, buffered pipelines end to end; a slow consumer or a burst never stalls acquisition.
Expect the network to fail
Every link buffers, reconnects automatically, and delivers idempotently; recovery is designed-in, not bolted on.
One source of live truth
Every consumer — alarm engine, historian, every browser session — receives the same ordered, deduplicated stream.
Sub-second where it counts
Value-to-screen delivery batched at 200 ms by default.
Secure by construction
Authenticated, encrypted channels between services; role-scoped access at the edge of the platform.
From field device to browser.
Field device → protocol driver (SCAIQ Connect) → streaming ingest → real-time tag model + expression evaluation (SCAIQ Core) → parallel fan-out: alarm evaluation (SCAIQ Alarms) · history logging (SCAIQ Historian) · live screen subscriptions (SCAIQ HMI) → browser render. Reverse path: audited operator commands → device writes with confirmation feedback.
Single-server (all services co-located) · distributed (services across nodes) · multi-site (edge collection + central services).
Frequently asked questions
What are typical latency figures?
Sub-second UI delivery, with 200 ms default batching between the real-time engine and browser sessions.
What if the historian is down?
Buffered store-and-forward pipelines mean acquisition is unaffected — logging catches up once the historian returns.
Can services run on separate machines?
Yes — topology is deployment-time configuration, from single-server to fully distributed.
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