The fourth industrial revolution confronts the automation technology with new challenges in communication and data processing: Emerging technologies such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence or the Digital Twin require a reliable and industry-compliant digital infrastructure. This is the basis for resilient, secure data exchange and reliable data processing. Through communication technologies like TSN and 5G, IT and OT systems can be connected without violating the strict requirements of production. The use of cloud systems opens up new potential in production technology, which is not possible with conventional automation systems.
Together with its research partner German Edge Cloud, the Fraunhofer IPT has developed the Fraunhofer Edge Cloud, an open IT test environment for research and industry. The Fraunhofer Edge Cloud is a production-oriented cloud system that can be tested and used for versatile industrial applications. With the possibility of individual adaptation to the respective use cases, all advantages of a cloud can be implemented in a secure and production-oriented environment.
One industrial use case that has already been tested is the creation of a sensor cloud data pipeline. Here, the sensor data recorded in a milling process is sent directly to the Fraunhofer Edge Cloud. Specially developed cloud services are used to analyze and interpret the data. Thus, the processing of the data is completely mapped in the cloud. The services can be started, stopped or updated dynamically without interrupting the process.
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- Building data pipelines from your production to the cloud
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