Industrial Internet Application Development

The challenges of building an IIoT application

There are many challenges to building IIoT applications, such as a lack of network connectivity due to the remote location of industrial plants. Using a proper Edge Gateway design is essential in mitigating this challenge. Getting access to data from equipment sensors is a challenge, due to the disparate equipment types from many different manufactures. Using protocols such as Modbus and OPCUA will help mitigate some of these connectivity challenges.

Industrial equipment, such as jet engines and power turbines, produces very large volumes of data in a short amount of time. For example, on landing, a jet engine alone generates up to 1 TB of data. This data needs to be processed and insights gathered ...