Driving forward with connectivity

A new Red Lion facility in St. Louis, the IIoT Innovation Center, will drive this effort through a focused engineering, product and sales team dedicated to building on Red Lion’s existing IIoT expertise.

"Our IIoT Innovation Center represents a significant investment, and delivers on our commitment to develop products and solutions uniquely suited to drive connectivity in industrial environments,” said Mike Granby, president, Red Lion Controls. "We have been helping to enable the IIoT with cellular connectivity, protocol conversion and automation from before the concept even had a name. Red Lion has been connecting devices and moving data for years. We are ideally positioned to deliver the solutions needed to make the IIoT a reality.”

Many customers and partners today rely on Red Lion to meet IIoT requirements by using industrial automation and networking products to:

•  Extend equipment lifespan: increase the value of legacy equipment with powerful protocol conversion

•  Improve process visibility: gain insight and drive productivity with data logging and communication capabilities 

•  Push control to the edge: scale systems management with control capabilities at the device instead of the central office

Specifically, Red Lion’s RAM 4G LTE cellular RTUs provide a secure all-in-one platform that seamlessly integrates with existing equipment to enable critical remote monitoring and control. In addition, to fulfill the need of organisations to connect disparate systems and enable communications across devices from different manufacturers, Red Lion’s Data Station Plus and Graphite HMIs enable protocol conversion for information sharing. Red Lion’s new IIoT Innovation Center will not only work to enhance these products, but develop new solutions for M2M and human-to-device communication.