UMH will help you with a "blueprint" to start from as far as infrastructure, data transport and schema. It also provides tools like node-red and grafana to handle more integrations, and interactions with the data. In the short time i've been using UMH, I recommend just getting started getting some data into the _historian schema (start by using the _local to test your result) by modeling and publishing to MQTT....and learning how to use the protocol converters. And then display some of that data on grafana. This will give you a feel for how UMH enforces the _historian schema and how to ingest the data into the database. I also suggest you connect to the database to view the schema and understand how it is stored, this gives you a view into how it's "organized". This will later give you a better idea on how to create your dashbaords in grafana or node-red.