Technology Supply for Data Exchange from Automation Systems
Building Efficient Industrial Automation Data Networks through netIOT

"Concentrating all efforts on supplying technology and service packages enabling data exchange from automation system components to cloud and IoT-based applications, together with the netIOT product line"

Hilscher is strengthening its leadership in the industrial network market. Through its proprietary OT-based Industrial Internet of Things platform 'netIoT', the company is committed to capturing market share spanning from system components to cloud and IoT.

During a briefing session held on the 8th, Hilscher announced that based on its semiconductor product 'netX (netX)', the company supplies various OEM modules including gateways for Ethernet communication, adapters, and PC cards. The company's industrial communication solutions featuring ASIC technology encompassing all fieldbuses and Real-Time Ethernet, along with development and manufacturing capabilities in the factory automation sector, serve as the foundation for market competitiveness, currently conducting extensive business with over 4,000 customers, the company stated.



Benjamin Knoll, Hilscher Asia Sales Manager, who presented on the occasion, stated "While Real-time protocol has always placed emphasis on bandwidth, it has been vulnerable in security, whereas IoT applications communicate from sensors to the cloud, thus requiring assurance of data and plant security." He further noted that security at job sites is increasingly important, and Hilscher's netIOT technology is an innovative solution facilitating seamless data exchange between automation networks and cloud or IoT-based application components.

On this occasion, Benjamin Knoll explained an overview of netIOT which Hilscher possesses as one of the implementation methods for sending data from sensors to the cloud. Because communication occurs through an edge gateway and does not go through the PLC, by reducing PLC traffic—the basic communication traffic generated—only data necessary for control can be sent to the cloud through preconfiguration.

Traditional PLC/DCS communication and the method of connecting IT and OT are also among the architectures that Hilscher possesses.

The netIOT interface, which enables device-level communication, transmits information through integrated IoT communication and arranges data utilizing the netProxy tool. Data exchange is possible through OPC UA and the industry standard MQTT, and cloud communication bypassing the PLC through existing physical layers is also possible.

Benjamin Knoll, Hilscher Sales Manager, stated "Hilscher has positioned itself as a pioneer in the technology field for the past 30 years and takes pride in being a leading global company in the new industrial IoT landscape," adding "The company provides all major protocols at various integration levels utilized in industrial communication, and is committed to providing comprehensive solutions across the entire industrial IoT market based on NetX, which has been proven as a future solution, particularly in connecting OT and IT."