The rugged, fanless PC (model number: C-UNO2271-W10EDG-1) will come with Ignition Edge MQTT installed and will be equipped with OPC-UA, Modbus, Siemens and Allen-Bradley drivers, supporting up to 500 tags. B+B SmartWorx sensor nodes can be used to add sensor data.
Ignition Edge is a line of low-cost software products designed for edge-of-network use.
MQQT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) is an M2M (machine-to-machine) and Internet of Things connection protocol. It has been developed to provide lightweight transport of publish/subscribe messages, and can be used for communicating with remote locations, where a small code footprint is required, or where network bandwidth is at a premium.
B+B SmartWorx's pocket-sized PC is designed to collect data at the edges of industrial networks
“With Ignition Edge running on UNO, customers will get a fast-track entry into better Scada/operational solutions, while also laying the groundwork for future IIoT enablement,” says Arlen Nipper, the co-inventor of MQTT.
B+B SmartWorx plans to embed Ignition Edge software into other devices, such as wireless sensing mesh nodes, wireless I/O modules, Ethernet I/O modules, WAN/LAN gateways, Ethernet switches and touch-panel computers.
