IoT Edge Computing Gateway

With the development of the Industrial Internet of Things, the amount of data generated by industrial equipment is increasing day by day, which brings great pressure on bandwidth resources and data processing to cloud platforms and monitoring centers. Therefore, the IoT Gateway application with the functions of data collection, processing, logic control and transmission on the edge side of the industrial site is born, which can greatly improve the data processing capability, reduce the pressure on the host computer system, and give full play to the true value of the Industrial Internet of Things.

According to a Gartner report, it is expected that by 2023, 85% of the world's enterprise-generated data will be created and processed in locations other than traditional centralized data centers or the cloud—meaning intelligent industrial IoT gateways are extremely large market potential.

So, what features do IoT gateways need?

1. Fast computing. Since a large amount of different types of data from the production site needs to be processed quickly, the IOT Edge Gateway should have the ability to quickly perform calculations and filter out valuable data.

2. The ability to access multiple platforms at the same time. It can not only access local HMI display, SCADA configuration software, but also upper computer management software such as OPC UA's MES system, and can also access multiple MQTT protocols at the same time, such as Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Thingsboard, Thingworx, Sparkplug B, AWS, etc.

3. Multi-protocol integration conversion function. A single device can convert multiple industrial protocols at the same time to achieve system integration and simplification in the true sense, such as collecting PLC data of different brands, and Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP protocol device data After collecting, realize the conversion of PLC, Modbus, DLT645, IEC104, BACNET and other protocols into MQTT, OPC UA and other protocols.

4. Data security. It can meet the security of data transmission, support OPENVPN, SSL, TLS and other encryption measures to ensure data security and reliability.

5. Data storage and supplementary transmission.  With data storage and data supplementary transmission functions, the IoT Edge Gateway will transmit data again once the whole system recovers, to make sure any data will not lose.