netFIELD Compact X8M - Edge Gateway with Docker

Description

The netFIELD Edge devices are intelligent data routers between the operating (OT) and the information technology (IT) level of automated systems. They autonomously aggregate, process, or transmit IIoT information alongside established production and control processes utilizing freely loadable software packed in containers.

The devices’ basis builds a secured Linux, a web configuration interface, and two independently operating container engines. Each device and one of the container engines can optionally be managed remotely over a platform. The digital workspace allows the 24/7 life cycle engineering of your distributed units and the containers from a central location. It reduces the management complexity to simple clicks of UI controls that allow you to face each of your upcoming remote IIoT projects with confidence.

The flexibility of the devices is suitable for all kinds of IoT-supported industrial applications - whether you deploy your data mining code directly to the devices or shift data intelligence to any cloud in forwarding scenarios. In either case, those logics enable you to better understand plant patterns and relationships for optimization purposes or anomaly recognitions. Challenges like building digital twins and implementing downstream predictive maintenance and condition monitoring solutions can be accomplished with minimum effort in the shortest time.