Acquire and store timestamps for event data

For RTU protocols where data timestamps may be retrieved from the remote site, it is necessary that a communication driver acquire this timestamp and make it available as a parameter of the data.

Given the data's value and its timestamp, it is possible to transfer the data's value and timestamp into the Historian database or process the data with event analysis algorithms. Such data transfer and processing operations require the development of specific Application Server objects designed for this task.