Industrial Internet Application Development

Tier 1 – IIoT machines and sensors

In a typical industrial setting, data has to be collected from industrial equipment from many different vendors, such as GE or Siemens. It is very common to see many different equipment types and protocols, such as Modbus, OPCUA, and Zigbee. A typical IIoT machine will have some inbuilt controller and processing logic that can handle the immediate processing of sensor data. In many cases, the sensor data is usually collected and processed by SCADA systems in real time and monitored by a technician, as can be seen in the following diagram:

Data gathered from this equipment is very valuable and it is sent ...