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Help with becoming IIoT ready
22 March 2018
Smartobserver from ifm electronic, is an out-of-the-box product that aligns the user towards IIoT, the Industrial Internet of Things. It allows the user to condition data acquisition, to observe what is actually happening on the plant down to sensor level, and to store that data for analysis.
Smartobserver provides the tools to manage alerts and deal with them. The natural consequence of this is effective management of maintenance, and energy management through data collection.
At the heart of Smartobserver is the LR Agent CP, key to collecting the data. This is a configurable, bidirectional communicating interface software. It collects and handles process information from the machines and transmits them to other systems (e.g. databases, ERP systems, MES). Furthermore, LR AGENT CP sends required information back to the machines.
The result of using Smartobserver is enhanced situational awareness; the analytics of what is going on in the process is driven by direct data from the sensors on the plant. Estimation based on history becomes unnecessary and irrelevant; processes and resource consumption are optimised based on what is really going on. This gives the operator instantaneous control and response in complex autonomous systems. Stand S254
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