Introduction to APIS Foundation

Thank you for using APIS Foundation - the component-based, real-time, industrial software platform from Prediktor AS.
Used in mission critical areas more than 2000 installations worldwide, typically in renewable energy, maritime, oil & gas drilling, manufacturing and production industries.

We hope you find APIS Foundation useful. Questions and suggestions are welcome via email: support@prediktor.no

What is APIS Foundation?

APIS Foundation is a real-time industrial software platform that incorporates many industry standards such as OPC and OPC UA. Component-based, it can be integrated in a myriad of ways with our partners' software. You can select only the components required, and avoid paying for unneeded functionality.

Components include:

  • Tools to collect data from external systems, sensors, and equipment;

  • A powerful time-series database that serves as a real-time Historian;

  • Tools to expose data via OPC or OPC UA.

Using these components, a number of different applications can be built including:

  • OPC UA-based Historians;
  • OPC DA/HDA servers;
  • OPC Hubs;
  • OPC UA wrappers for transferring real-time data over the internet;
  • And much, much more.

The following services are included in APIS Foundation:

The following tools are included in APIS Foundation:

  • APIS Management Studio is the main engineering interface for configuring APIS services.

  • APIS Buddy is a helper tool which is used to view, start and stop APIS services.

  • APIS Bare is a tool for manually backing up and restoring configuration and data for your APIS applications.

Where to start?

If you're new to APIS, we suggest you read the How To Guides. They cover the most common tasks and concepts when using the software.