ProductivityCODESYS: Easy IIoT - included!

Industrial machines/systems are more connected than ever before, whether internally with upstream IT management systems or externally with remote support personnel, modern day plant floor machines/systems need to communicate to a variety of networks. Cloud networking, with its computing and data storage platforms, has also become a viable solution for analyzing and accessing production data from anywhere at anytime. Using powerful cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure^® to analyze production-floor data can provide better process efficiency, improved plant-wide resource management, and less operational downtime.

But how does data from a simple level switch on a tank get to the cloud? With ProductivityCODESYS, it's easy! The ProductivityCODESYS CPU has the communication capabilities and processing power needed to not only control plant-floor machines but gather valuable data from them, package it, and send it on to higher level analysis systems.

Multiple data gathering options

ProductivityCODESYS controllers utilize proven Productivity2000 series I/O, offering many I/O options to choose from for your system data collection. I/O modules, available in analog, discrete, relay, and temperature versions, allow you to create the custom I/O configurations your application needs. And with the included licensing for Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP, and EtherNet/IP protocols, ProductivityCODESYS controllers can easily gather raw data from a variety of VFDs, sensors, switches, encoders, pilot devices, or almost any other control component your system may have.

FREE CODESYS IIoT Library

The ProductivityCODESYS system includes the CODESYS IIoT Library free of charge so you can easily communicate with numerous MQTT brokers and cloud platforms/services including:

• AWS^® IoT Core
• Azure^{®v IoT Hub}
• Mosquitto^®
• HiveMQ^®
• Thingsboard^®
• and many more!

MQTT

The MQTT protocol has become the frontrunner for many machine-to-machine (M2M) and IIoT/cloud networking applications, due to its lightweight overhead and reduced bandwidth consumption. The ProductivityCODESYS system includes support for MQTTS messaging, so you can securely deliver vital data to advanced cloud computing platforms.

Refining data into something meaningful

The CODESYS software offers advanced IEC 61131-3 programming which can easily transform a raw process signal, like 4-20mA, into a consumption rate, a production throughput, an energy efficiency score, a rejection percentage, or any other metric that's vital to you.