With its “Smart Manufacturing Connectivity for Brownfield Sensors Testbed,” the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) improves the availability of data from sensor-to-the-cloud connectivity.
For operators of existing manufacturing facilities, the smart solutions for these “brownfield” installations enable easy integration at both the operational technology (OT) and the IT level to reduce downtime and save costs.
The testbed:
- Introduces a retrofit hardware solution (the “Y-Gateway”) that makes use of existing physical connectivity
- Extracts sensor data from the automation system without impacting operations
- Delivers the sensor data to SAP’s IT platform through a secure OT/IT communication based on OPC UA (IEC 62541)
- Defines and implements a common device model based on an available open standard to allow for the easy integration of an IO-Link sensor with IT, enabling the remote configuration of the sensor
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