VERIFIED TRANSMISSION AND STORAGE OF FIELD DATA

1 . A method for securely transmitting field data, comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors of an edge device, field data of a piece of field equipment;

creating a log file by appending, by the one or more processors, identifying information to the field data, wherein the identifying information comprises a timestamp and a checksum;

encrypting, by the one or more processors, the log file;

transferring, by the one or more processors, the log file to an external device; and

storing, by the one or more processors, the identifying information in a memory storage of the edge device.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the encoded field data comprises a wireless communication between the edge device and the cloud computing system.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the memory storage of the edge device is configured to delete the encoded field data after a predetermined period of time.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the memory storage of the edge device is a first memory storage, and wherein transferring the log file comprises:

determining that an external storage device is inserted into a data transfer interface of the edge device;

downloading the encoded field data from the first memory storage onto the external storage device.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the memory storage is a first memory storage, and wherein the cloud computing system comprises a second memory storage comprising a log file, the log file comprising the identifying information and the encoded field data.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the log file comprises a plurality of identifying information and a plurality of encoded field data for a plurality of field equipment.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the identifying information comprises an identifier of the piece of field equipment.

8 . A method for securely transmitting field data, comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors of a cloud computing system, a request from an edge device, the request indicating a piece of field equipment and period of time;

retrieving, from a first memory storage of the cloud computing system, encoded field data from the piece of field equipment, wherein the encoded field data comprises field data, a first timestamp, and a first checksum;

identifying, by the one or more processors, the first timestamp and the first checksum of the encoded field data;

receiving, by the one or more processors, a second timestamp and a second checksum from the edge device, wherein the second timestamp and the second checksum are stored in a second memory storage of the edge device; and

transmitting, by the one or more processors, the encoded field data to the edge device, responsive to a determination that the first checksum matches the second checksum, and the first timestamp matches the second timestamp.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the request from the edge device is responsive to an indication by an application of the edge device of the piece of field equipment and the period of time.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the application is configured to process the encoded field data to adjust an operation of an actuator of the piece of field equipment.

11 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

determining, by the one or more processors, that the first checksum does not match the second checksum; and

transmitting, by the one or more processors, an alert to a user interface indicating that the first checksum does not match the second checksum.

12 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

determining, by the one or more processors, that the first timestamp does not match the second timestamp; and

transmitting, by the one or more processors, an alert to a user interface indicating that the first timestamp does not match the second timestamp.

13 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the first memory storage of the cloud computing system comprises a log file, the log file comprising the first timestamp, the first checksum, and the encoded field data.

14 . A system, comprising:

field equipment configured to collect field data associated with operation of the field equipment;

an edge device communicatively coupled to the field equipment and configured to append a first checksum and a first timestamp to the field data; and

a cloud computing system communicatively coupled to the edge device, comprising a processor configured to:

receive a request from an application indicating the piece of field equipment and a period of time;

retrieve appended field data from a memory storage of the cloud computing system, wherein the appended field data comprises the field data, a second checksum, and a second timestamp;

identify the second timestamp and the second checksum of the appended field data;

receive the first timestamp and the first checksum from the edge device; and

provide the field data to the application, responsive to a determination that the first checksum matches the second checksum and the first timestamp matches the second timestamp.

15 . The system of claim 14 , further comprising a user interface device communicatively coupled to the cloud computing system and configured to:

transmit a second request to the cloud computing system, the second request indicating the piece of field equipment and the period of time;

receive the field data from the cloud computing system;

receive, from the cloud computing system, an indication whether the first checksum matches the second checksum, and the first timestamp matches the second timestamp;

generate a report comprising the field data, responsive to the indication indicating that the first checksum matches the second checksum, and the first timestamp matches the second timestamp; and

display the report to a display of the user interface device.

16 . The system of claim 14 , further comprising a user interface device communicatively coupled to the cloud computing system and configured to display an audit of the piece of field equipment performed by the cloud computing system.

17 . The system of claim 16 , wherein the cloud computing system is programmed to perform the audit by:

transmitting, to the cloud computing system, a criteria for the piece of field equipment, wherein the criteria indicates a type of field data;

receiving, from the cloud computing system, a set of field data associated with the piece of field equipment and the type of field data; and

generating a report comprising the set of field data, wherein the report further comprises compliance information of the set of field data.

18 . The system of claim 17 , wherein the compliance information includes information associated with a safety function, an emissions function, a cyber security posture, an optimization KPI, or calibration information of the piece of field equipment.

19 . The system of claim 14 , wherein the application is a first application, and wherein the edge device comprises a second application configured to be easily accessible by an external device, the second application further configured to:

collect information associated with the external device; and

transmit an alert to a client device indicating that the external device has accessed the second application.

20 . The system of claim 19 , wherein the second application is further configured to resemble the first application, and wherein the second application comprises a decoy of the field data or of other information relating to the field equipment.