Central edge management with netFIELD
Further information
The IIoT startup iDOO uses Hilscher's netFIELD edge management platform to digitally network machines of extrusion specialist iBA. This makes production data available in real time, allowing processes to be analyzed and optimized in a traceable manner. The result is greater transparency, reduced effort, and stable system operation. Read more in our success story.
Hilscher’s Flagship Store for the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance (OI4) Community brings the ease of app stores to the industrial world. Powered by Wibu-Systems' CodeMeter licensing, the store gives users access to a library of apps and solutions for their shop floor automation needs.
Surface solution specialist Oerlikon Metco AG uses netFIELD to enable real-time data collection from industrial applications, such as thermal spray painting machines, from around the world.
The netFIELD edge management platform is a reliable and scalable platform for implementing your own Industrial IoT solution at the IT-OT edge or a hybrid: from remote maintenance of machines and predictive maintenance to new data-driven service business models. netFIELD supports both IIoT retrofitting and completely redesigned solutions. When you rely on netFIELD, you’re profiting from Hilscher’s years of experience in industrial communication and automation solutions for the proven implementation of IT-OT convergence and Industry 4.0 solutions.
Scaling Industrial IoT to larger numbers of machines, edge gateways, and edge software components is a challenge that is often underestimated. Operating edge gateways and the edge computing applications that run on them requires regular maintenance of the operating system, dis¬tributed software, IIoT data streams and integration with automation networks. netFIELD is our answer to these challenges.
- Efficient orchestration of distributed edge applications
- Ready-to-use infrastructure enables immediate launch of digital business models
- Centralized management of any edge device and entire device fleets
- Scaled for businesses with hierarchical organization structures
How ist the edge management platform of netFIELD set up?
netFIELD is an offering made to manage device fleets and their software over a central entity.
Each netFIELD Cloud entity is split in the two sub-entities: netFIELD Portal and netFIELD Platform.
netFIELD Portal is the frontend where a user can access, control, monitor and manage devices and their software in container format.
netFIELD Platform is the entity's backend or better said the backbone and is an API call interface to execute the very same management tasks but from computer programs or through third party tools automated.
Hilscher hosts a netFIELD Cloud instance on the Internet to offer customers the management of netFIELD enabled devices. Its portal frontend is available under www.netfield.io and the platform backend unter api.netfield.io. Using the netFIELD Cloud infrastructure requires to submit a subscription plan. For different use-cases different subscription plans are offered.
Overview: The three netFIELD subscription models
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Your Industrial IoT edge appli¬cations run reliably and secu¬rely encapsulated as software containers on the managed edge device. At any time, containers can be rolled out to your devices in any combi¬nation and managed centrally.
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Connect your edge devices directly to the automation level via an industrial bus. Rely on Hilscher‘s many years of expertise in the field of industrial communication.
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You are always in control of where your IIoT data is processed. Whether directly in the edge device or routed into a business application or platform of your choice.
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Efficiently and reliably orchestrate entire fleets of edge devices and the software components running on them 24/7. The solution scales from small businesses and system integrators to global corpo¬rations with subsidiaries.
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