IOTech: Commercially developed and supported open source edge platform for industrial edge deployments

Written by LF Edge members from IOTech Systems. For more information about IOTech, visit their website.

IOTech Systems: Commercially developed and supported open source edge platform for industrial edge deployments

IOTech Edge Central productizes and greatly enhances EdgeX. Edge Central is designed to maximize openness, ease of use, flexibility, and choice for organizations developing their next generation of industrial edge solutions.

IOTech's approach is to reduce the need for extensive coding by providing a comprehensive suite of platform services that users can simply configure to address many different use cases, significantly increasing developer productivity, reducing time-to-market, and minimizing development costs.

Key Value-Add Examples

Industrial OT Device Support

Edge Central offers a wide range of industrial-grade OT device connectors for various assets, devices, and sensors. Key features include batch reading/writing in Modbus and automatic discovery and change of value (COV) support in BACnet. 

Edge Central offers a wide range of industrial-grade OT device connectors with services for OPC UA, BLE, GPS, EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, Siemens PLCs, and many more that are not available in the open source. We also enhance the community versions for example adding multi-read/write and scanning support in Modbus, and automatic discovery and change of value (COV) support in BACnet.

Time-Saving Device Tooling

Our advanced tooling simplifies device configuration with wizard-based interfaces and protocol-specific menus, making device setup quick and error-free. This turns configuration into a non-technical task, saving significant time compared to manual profile creation.

Deriving Value Quickly

Edge Central enables faster insights from data with pre-integrated services, such as advanced edge rules, accessible storage, powerful visualization, and vision inference options.

Ready-Made Cloud Integration

Edge Central supports easy, out-of-the-box streaming to major Cloud platforms using REST and MQTT. It offers bi-directional data flow for hybrid environments and supports MQTT Sparkplug and Kafka for scalable Cloud integrations.

Chemical Tank Demo

Watch this demonstration video to see Edge Central in action. See how it helps simplify key edge computing tasks including data acquisition, edge intelligence, and cloud data streaming. The demo describes a Manufacturing “Chemical Tank” simulation, but the principles can be applied to many other industries and edge computing use cases.

Professional Services

IOTech Systems offers users technical support guarantees and offers professional services that optimize the adoption of the technology, including online training, technical workshops, bespoke consultancy, pilot projects, and roadmap services.

IOTech Systems are a key contributor and innovator within community and have been a member of the Linux Foundation’s EdgeX Foundry project since its inception in 2017.

For further information visit www.iotechsys.com