The potential for connecting sensors, actuators, devices and machinery to the cloud is enormous. According to industry experts, 85% of existing embedded industrial devices are not presently connected. This means there is a big chance you can harvest significant competitive advantages by taking your enterprise system to the edge. IoT is about creating full transparency and interoperability all the way from sensor to cloud. Just imagine how that could boost your business.
The IoT Edge Gateway enables data communication between the controller / machine and the cloud. This allows machine data to be monitored anywhere in the world, e.g. to optimize maintenance cycles. Various fieldbuses (Profinet, Powerlink, Ethercat etc.) are possible, and data transmission is done via mobile radio.