Posted on 5/15/2019
Opto 22 announced the release of a new white paper, “Meet the Future: Edge Programmable Industrial Controllers,” which discusses how controls engineers can meet demands for obtaining, using and sharing data.
The white paper focuses on three main communication challenges: complexity, security, and expense. IIoT and other data-intensive automation applications typically require many steps and a lot of middleware: hardware, drivers, parsers, and custom software.
These steps are time-consuming to set up, difficult to maintain and change, and create major security concerns. Th...