With the rapid development of information and communication technology, edge computing technology, as a new computing model, has been applied in more and more industries. In automation industry, by introducing edge computing gateway, it brings many benefits to factory enterprises, such as improving productivity and enhancing data transmission.
Edge computing gateway is an important hub applied between machines and devices and cloud platforms, which deploys computing and processing capabilities at the device site to achieve local processing and analysis of data, and the implementation process is as follows:
1. Gateway Deployment And Device Connection: First determine the on-site network environment and stability, to ensure that the machine equipment can communicate with the edge computing gateway, you can choose wireless or wired network (5G/4G, WIFI, Ethernet, etc.), according to the specific needs of the deployment.
2. Data Acquisition And Processing: Through protocol analysis and data acquisition, the data generated by the machine equipment can be acquired and processed, including data format conversion, data cleaning and other operations, so as to achieve the standardisation of data processing, in order to provide it to other platforms.
3. Edge Computing And Analysis: Real-time calculation and analysis of the collected data through embedded edge computing capabilities. This allows for rapid decision-making and feedback locally, reduces the latency of data transmission to the cloud, and reduces dependence on cloud computing resources.
4. Data Storage And Management: Edge computing gateway with a certain storage capacity, you can store important data locally. This part of the data redundancy is mainly to achieve the function of breakpoint transmission, which can temporarily store the data when it is dropped to ensure the safety and reliability of the data.
Advantages Of Edge Computing Gateway In Automation Industry
1. Reduce Delay And Bandwidth Pressure: Edge computing gateway deploys data processing and analysis on the field device side, reducing the delay of data transmission to the cloud. At the same time, the data is processed and filtered, and only the specified data is transmitted, which can reduce the bandwidth pressure and the cost of cloud servers, which can achieve real-time decision-making and response, and enhance the responsiveness and efficiency of the automation system.
2. Data Security And Protection Measures: The data will be cleaned and filtered locally, and at the same time, combined with local firewalls and identity access and other measures, you can reduce the security risks in the data transmission process, which plays an important role in production security and technical confidentiality protection.
3. Real-time Monitoring And Application Development: Edge computing gateways can monitor the status and performance indicators of machines and equipment in real time and provide timely feedback to operators. This helps to achieve remote monitoring and troubleshooting, and improve system reliability and maintenance efficiency. It can also monitor and control the management of equipment energy consumption to achieve energy saving optimisation and improve energy efficiency.