Augmented reality presentation of an industrial environment

A method for generating augmented reality presentations for rendering of industrial data, comprising:

• receiving, by a system comprising at least one processor, contextual data from a client device, wherein the contextual data comprises at least location data identifying a location of the client device within an industrial environment and orientation data identifying an orientation of the client device;
• in response to determining that the contextual data signifies that an automation system is within a field of view of the client device:
• identifying, by the system, data items that are relevant to the automation system,
• selecting, by the system, a source of the data items from among a first copy of the data items stored on an industrial device of the automation system or a second copy of the data items stored on a federated data model maintained on a cloud platform, wherein the selecting comprises:
• while the client device is within a range of a near field communication link with the industrial device, selecting, as the source of the data items, the first copy of the data items stored on the industrial device, and
• while the client device is not within the range of the near field communication link with the industrial device, selecting, as the source of the data items, the second copy of the data items from the federated data model,
• retrieving, by the system, the data items from the source of the data items,
• generating, by the system, an augmented reality presentation that renders the data items on the client device as respective overlays on the field of view;
• and
• sending, by the system, the augmented reality presentation to the client device.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving contextual data from a client device, the contextual data comprising at least location data that identifies a location of the client device within an industrial environment and orientation data identifying an orientation of the client device;
• in response to determining that the contextual data indicates that an automation system is within a field of view of the client device, retrieving data items that are determined to be relevant to the automation system, wherein the retrieving comprises:
• while the client device is within a range of near field communication with an industrial device that stores a first copy of the set of data items, retrieving, as the data items, the first copy of the data items from the industrial device, and
• while the client device is outside the range of the near field communication with the industrial device, retrieving, as the data items, a second copy of the set of data items stored in a federated data model maintained on a cloud platform;
• generating an augmented reality presentation that renders the data items on the client device as respective overlays on the field of view;
• and
• sending the augmented reality presentation to the client device.