As usual,ibaPDA continuously acquires data from the automation environment. The stored signals (digital and analog signals, as well as text signals) result from the configuration in the I/O Manager of ibaPDA.

• With a time-based HD data store configured in ibaPDA, the acquired digital and analog signals are transferred to the desired ibaHD-Server, where they are stored in a time-based HD store.

• With a time-based HD data store with time periods configured in ibaPDA, the acquired digital and analog signals are transferred to the desired ibaHD-Server, where they are stored in a time period store.

• With an event-based HD data store configured in ibaPDA, events are created from the defined triggers, transferred to the desired ibaHD-Server and stored there in an event-based HD store.

• With a length-based HD data store configured in ibaPDA, the acquired digital and analog signals are transferred to the desired ibaHD-Server, where they are stored in a length-based HD store.

In contrast to normal data stores, the HD data store does not create data files in iba format (*.dat), but sends the stored data to the ibaHD-Server, which takes the data and writes it to the corresponding HD store.

ibaAnalyzer offers functions for converting HD data into a standard iba data file.