Patent Document ID: 9143563
Application ID: 13663928
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system, comprising: at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein computer-executable components; and at least one processor that executes the following computer-executable components stored on the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium: a data model component that maintains a data model that defines multiple hierarchical levels of an industrial enterprise and models correlations between historian data stored on a set of historian devices in terms of the multiple hierarchical levels; an access component that receives a request for access to a data item of the historian data, identifies, based on the correlations defined by the data model, at least two historian devices of the set of historian devices that store duplicate instances of the data item, and selects a historian device, of the at least two historian devices, from which to retrieve the data item based on respective locations of the at least two historian devices relative to a location of origination of the request; and an interface component configured to display the data item retrieved from the historian device.