BUILDING A CUSTOMER SOLUTION IS LIKE AN ORCHESTRATION
A huge choice of availabe application containers can be
networked to complete the costumer solution with a minimum
of development effort.
Application containers might provide functions for
- Process-, Topology- and Asset Data acquisition from field devices and other data sources
- Data storage, aggregation and filtering
- Cloud-/On-Premise application connectivity and secure data transport
The open netFIELD application container reference architecture includes interfaces for the inter-container communication using MQTT. In this way it is possible to distribute overall solution workload over several devices or virtual machines. Additionally an application container may also equipped with user friendly web application which can be seamlessly integrated as plugin into the Edge Device Manager. The ability to implement methods into an application container, which can be called via the cloud api is completing the reference architecture of a netFIELD application container.
netFIELD APP PLATFORM CONNECTOR
Make local data centrally available in the netFIELD Cloud platform.
- Transport data from the MQTT communication infrastructure to the netFIELD cloud platform API, where this data is exposed as a Web Socket Secure endpoint. You are free to configure which data topics are transported to the netFIELD cloud platform.
- The configuration can be done locally or remote via the Device Manager provided by netFIELD OS.
- Stream this data into analytics pipelines or real-time dashboards. The firmware update of the netFIELD Edge device is also managed by the netFIELD Proxy application container.
netFIELD APP PROFINET DEVICE
Enable a netFIELD Edge device to be a field device in a PROFINET network
- netFIELD Edge devices with integrated netX technology can be connected directly to a Real-Time ethernet network. In this case the netFIELD Edge device can exchange cylic IO data with the PLC. Input and output data can be read/write via the MQTT communication infrastructure.
- The configuration can be done locally or remote via the Device Manager provided by netFIELD OS.
netFIELD APP PROFINET/ETHERCAT TAP
Data diode to the field network and data filtering
- The netFIELD App PROFINET or EtherCAT TAP is able to read the meaningful symbols from the TIA portal or respectively from the TwinCAT project files in order to simplify the filter configuration of the required datapoints.
- The configuration can be done locally or remote via the Device Manager provided by netFIELD OS.
netFIELD APP EDGE MONITOR
Monitor your netFIELD Edge device resource usage.
- Gain health insights and take action based on the acquisition of netFIELD Edge device configuration information and resource consumption data. The collected information are published to the MQTT communication infrastructure on a regular base.
- netFIELD Proxy is available and configured to provide these data to the netFIELD Cloud platform a data vizalization is available in the netFIELD Portal.
MQTT COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE
- A further ready to use netFIELD application container is the netFIELD App MQTT Broker, which can be deployed to any netFIELD Edge device or virtual edge appliance running the netFIELD OS. So it is possible to provide the MQTT communication infrastructure by one single device. In the case, that an MQTT broker is already available in the network, this broker can be used as MQTT infrastructure for the netFIELD application container as well.
netFIELD APP OPC UA CLIENT
Connect to and browse multible OPC UA server of field devices
- This easy-to-use OPC UA Connector enables the connection to multiple OPC UA capable field devices and is able to browse automatically the complete node tree of any OPC UA Server. Relevant nodes can be selected so that the values can be published in the MQTT communication infrastructure. The configuration can be done locally or remotely via the device manager provided by netFIELD OS.
NETFIELD APP AZURE/AWS/GOOGLE CONNECTOR
- Push selected data streams to the cloud of your choice.
- Transport data from the MQTT communication infrastructure to the Azure, AWS or Google cloud.
- The app configuration can be done locally or remote via the Device Manager provided by netFIELD OS or netFIELD Cloud.
Deploy the ready-to-use netFIELD apps together with self-developed containers to your netFIELD Edge devices in order to complete high-quality customer solutions.
| Article | Order Number | Category | Version | Price / per Edge (EUR) |
|---|
netFIELD App
EtherCAT Tap | 1917.008 | Data Acquisition | 1.0.0 | Get in contact
with our sales team |
netFIELD App
PROFINET TAP | 1917.007 | Data Acquisition | 1.1.0 |
netFIELD App
PROFINET Device | 1917.004 | Data Acquisition | 0.9.4 |
netFIELD App
OPC UA Client | 1917.009 | Data Acquisition | 1.0.0 |
netFIELD App
Google Connector | 1917.003 | IT/Cloud Connectors | Q3/2021 |
netFIELD App
Edge Monitor | 1917.005 | Data Acquisition | 1.0.1 |
netFIELD App
Azure Connector | 1917.001 | IT/Cloud Connectors | Q3/2021 |
netFIELD App
AWS Connector | 1917.002 | IT/Cloud Connectors | Q3/2021 |
netFIELD App
Platform Connector | – | Connectivity | 1.4.0 |
netFIELD App
MQTT Broker | – | Connectivity | 1.6.8 |
netFIELD App
IO-Link Configurator | – | Connectivity | 0.9.5 |
netFIELD App
OPC UA IO-Link Adapter | – | Connectivity | 0.9.4 |
