The digitalization toward Industrie 4.0 is increasingly taking shape. This increases the challenges for plant operators and the urgency of not losing touch with the new technologies even in existing plants. But what is the best way to enter the digital value chain in the production environment? The answer: With one simple and straightforward step – the smart IoT gateway SIMATIC IOT2050 for connection to the Industrial Edge and cloud.

The new, extremely compact IoT gateway SIMATIC IOT2050 is located directly in the production environment on the wall or on a standard mounting rail and acquires, processes, harmonizes, and stores machine and production data from various data sources. It forwards this data to the in-house IT, such as the ERP level, or to a cloud system, where it is analyzed by an analysis tool and fed back to maintenance systems, for example. This is ideal for detecting possible signs of wear at an early stage based on corresponding indicators, optimally planning and carrying out preventive maintenance, and thus minimizing cost-intensive downtimes. Thanks to its module interface for a wide range of mobile communication standards, data transmission with the SIMATIC IOT2050 can also be wireless.

In the future, the SIMATIC IOT2050 will also have Edge functionality on board, allowing it to be seamlessly integrated into Industrial Edge solutions from Siemens. But this compact, yet high-performance device offers even more: e.g. a processor from the powerful Texas Instruments ARM processor family, with up to 2 GB DDR4 RAM memory and numerous interfaces, including Gbit LAN and two USB interfaces, as well as one serial and one Arduino interface. Furthermore, the Linux/Debian-based SIMATIC Industrial OS is already pre-installed as the operating system on the SIMATIC IOT2050 advanced to save time during commissioning. A wide range of options is available for programming in high-level languages.

Thanks to the Edge functionality, which will be available in the future, you can easily integrate SIMATIC IOT2050 into Industrial Edge solutions from Siemens. The gateway analyzes and processes your machine and plant data exactly where it is generated: directly in your production department and plant. This permits fast and immediate plant-wide data analysis on site – a tangible advantage for your cloud computing as well: The volume of data transferred to the cloud is significantly reduced, allowing you to make the most of your bandwidth.

Intelligent interconnectivity is the key to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). And this is exactly where the smart SIMATIC IOT2050 IoT gateway comes in: It connects your in-house IT, production and cloud – and merges data from a wide variety of data sources. Equipped with the SIMATIC Industrial OS operating system based on Linux for Debian, SIMATIC IOT2050 acquires, processes and transmits your data directly in the production environment via industrial IT solutions.

With SIMATIC IOT2050 you benefit from the highest performance: This is ensured, for example, by powerful Texas Instruments ARM processors, 2 GB DDR4 RAM memory and numerous interfaces, e.g. an mPCIe interface for radio cards, Gbit LAN and two USB interfaces, as well as a serial and an Arduino interface. Furthermore, the gateway is not only designed for data transmission, but also for data aggregation, conversion of various communication protocols, and pre-processing in high-level languages such as Java, C++, Arduino IDE or Eclipse. 

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