Why IoT?
ICS Trading had been creating automation,
logging, reporting, recipe management systems for many years and we came across the following
hurdles:
We need to Bring Production Data into the
Corporate Environment
BUT
Industrial IT and Corporate IT systems are
incompatible
BECAUSE
Mutually, both infrastructures cannot
tolerate the methodology and procedures regarded standard in each infrastructure
A workaround is to install one server linking to both networks or bridge the networks with a firewall
BUT
It is expensive and requires compromise on
IT security on both networks and continuous maintenance
Some production entities might not even be automated at all
Many times customers will express the need to have easy access to production data, but the cost, risk and
bureaucracy associated with such a solution makes it unfeasible
Data may exist on different systems: Process
Historians, SCADA’s, log sheets, logistic systems, maintenance systems, enterprise systems, but the data needs
to be analyzed relation to each other
IoT Offers..
IoT offers an affordable solution to bridge the gap
between Industrial IT and Corporate IT systems
IoT offers convergence of data from different sources
IoT can cost effectively collect data from
entities that are not automated or integrated
IoT offers remote telemetry and monitoring
