netFIELD app for continuous data acquisition from Siemens PLCs for Industry 4.0 applications

Flexible use of machine data and process data for Industry 4.0 applications

NFA-S7A-OTP
netFIELD app for continuous data acquisition from Siemens PLCs for Industry 4.0 applications

Flexible use of machine data and process data for Industry 4.0 applications

  • Makes process data and machine data usable for Industry 4.0 applications

  • Works with all Siemens PLCs that support the S7 protocol

  • IIoT-compatible provision of data via MQTT protocol

  • Easy commissioning with a convenient web interface

  • Reduced functionality without license key for test purposes

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Implement IIoT applications with process data from Siemens PLCs

The platform-independent netFIELD App S7 Adapter container app enables the data provision of process data from Siemens PLCs for Industrial IoT applications. The app can connect to several PLCs in parallel, thus also aggregating data from machine lines or larger plants. The S7 protocol (RFC 1006) is used to establish the connection to Siemens PLCs.

Tapping data parallel to the PLC and providing it to IoT applications enables long-term data analysis and the identification of trends and error scenarios. Plant operators benefit from increased asset productivity through predictive maintenance, minimization of downtime, and optimization of workflows.

The netFIELD App S7 Adapter periodically retrieves data (interval can be configured) from the PLCs and provides the retrieved data via the MQTT protocol. MQTT is an easy-to-use IoT protocol that is very popular with developers.

The app provides a convenient web interface for configuration. The user can configure the data points to be read from the PLC. All standard data types are supported.

Under the netFIELD brand, Hilscher also offers additional communication apps, edge gateways, and a cloud-based remote management solution for the devices and containers.

NFA-S7A-OTP supports the following protocols:

Technical Data

Category

Parameter

Value

Product

Product name

NFA-S7A-OTP

Part number

1917.067

Description

netFIELD App S7 Adapter

Software type

Container

Repository

hub.docker.com/repository/docker/hilscherautomation/netfield-app-s7-adapter

Hardware requirements

Processor architecture

AMD64, ARM64

Container size

350 MByte, decompressed

Memory requirements

Approx. 250 MByte

Data interface

Ethernet

Software requirements

Operating system

Linux

Container runtime environment

Required, e.g. Docker

Data distribution

Any MQTT broker, e.g., Mosquitto

Runtime properties

Inbound protocol

S7 (RFC 1006)

Outbound protocol

MQTT (as a client)

Maximum number of PLCs per app instance

10

Maximum number of retrievable data points per PLC

100

Minimum polling interval

50 ms

Licensing

Billing model

One-time payment for a license with no time limit

Software maintenance

After license activation, all updates are included for 12 months

Product activation

License key

Container protection

WIBU CodeMeter licensing technology, license server required (Windows or container)

Order Information

Product name

Part number

Brief description

NFA-S7A-OTP

1917.067

netFIELD app for continuous data acquisition from Siemens PLCs for Industry 4.0 applications

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