Ask Your Factory Floor Anything: Structuring Industrial Data for AI Agents
A Unified Namespace (UNS) gives every sensor, actuator, and PLC a path in a shared ISA-95 hierarchy. Data from every facility flows into one namespace, whether the transport is MQTT, OPC UA, or Kafka. The structure problem? Solved. But structure alone doesn’t make those paths queryable. Once you store millions of timestamped values in a dedicated time-series database, the tag_id in each row is just a reference, and the hierarchy that gives it meaning lives somewhere else. Every contextual question (“which […]