Gateway services integrate Edge Data to the information center
技術文件
12/03/2021
Obstacles
How to effectively integrate different PLCs, controllers, and sensors is the key for smart management. A Taiwan leading electronic connector company, due to plant expansion, had to build the information center with limited time, but the biggest challenge for them was how to build the whole framework. The engineering team spent lots of time integrating different protocols, but it is not easy. Neither could they find any device that can work with multiple protocols, and in addition, sends edge data to the information center. The information center is a server that has powerful computing yet flexible peripheral expansion capability that can be the OT data/IT system integration.
Why Cermate
- Support all mainstream Protocol Drivers (500+), connect with edge devices easily.
- Provide PLC-to-Modbus Gateway service for smart management to the information center
- Data exchange function to effectively consolidate and manage edge data
- With flexible 4G/WiFi and DI/DO expansion modules
- PanelExpress as SCADA software installing on edge PC to edge devices
In the IIoT era, it is the engineering team's headache to realize MQTT for high-efficiency and low-power IoT devices. Using Panelexpress to communicate through an existing Cloud platform server (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Ali Cloud, Advantech WISE-PaaS) makes setting the MQTT connection easy with risk-free hacking for its strict TLS encryption.