Dream team for Industrial IoT

Industrial clouds are required to filter the relevant values out from the large amount of information gathered by field devices such as sensors and RFID read/write heads, i. e. reducing big data to smart data. The cloud is thus far more than just a memory storage facility.
Instead, it supports users such as with the fast integration of newly connected devices, gives automatic warning of any critical anomalies or visualizes the operating times of different tools. For this Turck offers end-to-end communication from the sensor right through to the cloud and this in both directions. This provides an intelligent exchange between the field level, controller, data cloud and the responsible service employee as soon as necessary.

IO-Link allows
access to additional data

The IO‑Link communication standard today already enables digitalization to be started in the direct machine environment. Many field devices are now equipped with processors which provide information in addition to the user data, such as diagnostics data or device information. IO‑Link enables access to these additional values by higher-level systems in parallel with the actual measured value. This turns an IO‑Link device such as a sensor into a talking participant, which in turn increases the usability of cloud services at the other end of the automation pyramid. With IO‑Link and cloud solutions Turck is connecting two trailblazing technologies and is thus ensuring end-to-end continuity “up to the last meter”.

PRE-PROCESSING with
decentralized intelligence

Remote intelligence is needed in order to restrict data usage above the field level to smart data. In other words, the signals are preprocessed already in the fieldbus module.