With the Industry 4.0 revolution being already underway, it's time to make automation technology ready for the Industrial Internet of Things. Off-the-shelf industrial IoT gateways and edge computing devices powered by Linux and macchina.io EDGE provide a solid foundation to introduce IoT technology to manufacturing systems.
The market offers a rapidly growing selection of industrial IoT gateway and edge computing devices based on Intel or ARM architectures. However, these devices are usually delivered with just a basic Linux operating system and a few low-level libraries. This makes software development for these devices slow, error-prone and inefficient.
Enter macchina.io EDGE: feature-rich APIs for working with industrial sensors and automation devices using technologies such as Modbus, CANopen, USB, RS-232, or OPC-UA, as well as wireless protocols such as Bluetooth® LE or Digi XBee®, combined with a high-performance JavaScript engine make it easy to quickly build custom applications to monitor and optimize manufacturing processes using a "low-code" approach. A built-in web application server enables web-based visualizations of process and sensor data that can be displayed on mobile devices or HTML-capable industrial display panels. Support for HTTPS, MQTTS, REST, JSON-RPC and SOAP protocols make it easy to securely communicate with enterprise or cloud applications. And finally, macchina.io EDGE's modular plug-in based architecture and remote management capabilities makes it possibly to roll out application software upgrades or entirely new applications to a large number of field devices.
And with macchina.io REMOTE, industrial edge devices can be securely accessed and managed remotely, without the need to hassle with complicated VPN setups or insecure port forwarding.
By delivering everything developers need to build IoT edge applications, macchina.io EDGE and macchina.io REMOTE make it much easier for developers to get started with and successfully build solutions with IoT gateway hardware. And thanks to the scalability of macchina.io EDGE, it can be deployed on cost efficient gateways with 64 to 256 MB of RAM. On smaller devices, macchina.io EDGE and the macchina.io REMOTE device agent can be integrated into the device's firmware. On more powerful devices, the software can be deployed with Docker containers.
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