leveraging operational data in the cloud
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Presenter
Travis Cox
Co-Director of Sales Engineering
Inductive Automation
Today’s Agenda
• Introduction to Ignition
• How The Cloud Fits With Your Operations
• Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud
• Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
• Benefits of Ignition/Cirrus Link Cloud Solutions
• Q&A
About Inductive Automation
• Founded in 2003
• HMI, SCADA, MES, and IIoT software
• Installed in 100+ countries
• Over 1,600 integrators
• Used by 48% of Fortune 100 companies
Learn more at: inductiveautomation.com/about
Used By Industries Worldwide
Ignition: Industrial Application Platform
One Universal Platform for SCADA, MES & IIoT:
• Unlimited licensing model
• Cross-platform compatibility
• Based on IT-standard technologies
• Scalable server-client architecture
• Web-managed
• Web-launched on desktop or mobile
• Modular configurability
• Rapid development and deployment
Panelist
Arlen Nipper
CTO and Co-Founder,
Cirrus Link Solutions
By now, most industrial organizations know about
the cloud but many are unsure about:
• How to leverage the cloud effectively across
their enterprise
• How to put data into the cloud
• What to do with data once it’s in the cloud
How the Cloud Fits With Your Operations
Pros:
• Easy data access, from anywhere, on multiple devices
• Requires less computing power
• Easy to scale
• Pay-per-use, save on IT costs
Cons:
• Security (Internet access, hackers, government can access w/o warrant)
• Performance (bandwidth, dependent on Internet connection, latency)
• Reliability (connection failures, no direct access, uptime/data backup dependent on
provider)
How the Cloud Fits With Your Operations
How the Cloud Fits With Your Operations
Send operational tags into the cloud:
• Values from PLCs and devices
• Values from OPC servers
• Values from in-memory
• Values from databases
• Values from expressions
• Tag metadata
• And others
How the Cloud Fits With Your Operations
We’ll show you how to get tags from Ignition into cloud
services, in a simple, secure, and efficient manner.
As we’ll show, this can help your company to:
• Utilize Big Data, analytics, machine learning & more
• Have a single source of truth for tag data
• Get data with context
• Use cloud & edge computing together
• Bridge the gap between operational technology (OT) &
information technology (IT) — And other great benefits!
Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud
Let’s look at two of the biggest cloud services
available: Amazon Web Services and
Microsoft Azure
Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud
Three major services in AWS:
• Kinesis Streams
• DynamoDB
• S3 Data Lake
Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud
Kinesis Streams:
• Collect, process & analyze real-time streaming data
(such as video, audio, logs, website clickstreams,
IoT telemetry data)
• Process and analyze data as it arrives, instead of
waiting until all data is collected.
• Potential use: Send real-time data from SCADA to
Kinesis Streams to utilize in a variety of ways.
Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud
DynamoDB:
• NoSQL (non-relational) database
• Utilizes a variety of data models
• Ease of development
• Scalable performance
• High availability
• Potential use: Easily scale your database
horizontally over multiple machines without
interrupting service.
Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud
S3 (Simple Storage Service) Data Lake:
• Data lake = a flat, unstructured, centralized
repository for securely storing, categorizing, and
analyzing any type of data
• More agile and flexible than traditional data
storage & analytic tools
• Low-cost storage option
• Potential use: Collect real-time SCADA data in a
data lake and retrieve it whenever you need it.
Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud
Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud
Two major services in Azure:
• Power BI
• Machine Learning
Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud
Power BI (Business Intelligence):
• A suite of business analytics tools that can
be used throughout the organization
Potential uses:
• Personalized dashboards
• Creating and publishing reports on the web
and mobile devices
• Real-time supply chain visibility
• Ad-hoc analysis
Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud
Machine Learning:
• The study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in AI
• Industrial applications:
◦ Predictive maintenance
◦ Quality control
◦ Demand forecasting
◦ Raw material price forecasting
◦ Predicting machine settings
◦ Training industrial robots
• Potential use: Use machine learning to operate machinery more efficiently
Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud
Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
“Wow, it looks like we can do some awesome stuff
with data in the cloud … so what’s the best way to get
the data up there?”
Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
First step: Decouple devices from applications
• This is a fundamental concept for IIoT & IT-OT convergence
• Instead of using poll/response, use a publish/subscribe
architecture to make all your data accessible
Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
Use MQTT as your pub-sub protocol:
• Very lightweight
• Bi-directional data flow
• Enables message-oriented middleware architectures
• Stateful awareness
• Reporting by exception
Cirrus Link MQTT Modules enable Ignition to be MQTT-aware.
• MQTT Distributor Module: Adds an MQTT server to the
Ignition platform that enables MQTT clients to securely
connect, publish, and subscribe to data.
• MQTT Engine Module: Adds functionality to bidirectionally
communicate with MQTT Sparkplug-enabled edge-of-
network devices security via an MQTT server.
• MQTT Transmission Module: Can take any Ignition tag,
listen for change events, and publish those events as MQTT
Sparkplug messages.
Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
Cirrus Link Cloud Modules enable easy connection of Ignition tag
data into AWS or Azure cloud infrastructures.
• Available for both Ignition Gateway & Ignition Edge
• Simple to configure
• Tag information efficiently reported by exception
• Operational data from Ignition in AWS or Azure allows you
to unleash the power of those cloud platforms for Big Data
applications, predictive maintenance, predictive analytics & AI
Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
Using the AWS Injector Module
Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
Using the Azure Injector Module
Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
Azure
IoT Hub
Kinesis
Connect from the Edge
Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
Connect from IIoT MQTT Solutions
Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
Azure
IoT Hub
Kinesis
Connect from Any Installed Ignition Solution
Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
Connect from Existing HMI/SCADA Systems
Azure
IoT Hub
Kinesis
Wonderware
ClearSCADA
OASyS DNA
PTC ThingWorx
CygNet
FactoryTalk
Kepware
OPC UA
Module
Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
You must have Big Access before you can get Big Data.
• Unless you can provide operational personnel with a superior solution, you
will never be able to take advantage of Big Data.
• Ignition is a best-in-class operational system that breaks down the barriers
to obtaining operational data.
• Cirrus Link’s MQTT Modules and Cloud Modules are made to work with
Ignition, in order to bridge the gap between OT and IT.
Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud
Big Access to Big Data to Real Value
AWS Demo – Services Flow
Amazon S3
bucket
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon
CloudWatch
AWS IAM
Amazon
Kinesis
Streams
Amazon
Kinesis
Firehose
Amazon
Kinesis
Analytics
Cirrus
Link AWS
Injector
AWS
Lambda
Amazon
QuickSight
Amazon Machine
Learning
Amazon
Athena
Demo: Injector Module
Benefits of Ignition/Cirrus Link Cloud Solutions
Benefit: These solutions provide a single source of truth for tag info.
• The device becomes the single source of truth, which is delivered
to all applications. If a tag is manually changed, that change is
automatically reflected all the way to the central server.
• No need to remap or translate data several times before it gets
to its final destination.
• Everyone in the enterprise uses the same data.
• Save thousands of hours of labor.
Benefits of Ignition/Cirrus Link Cloud Solutions
Benefit: Get data with context, without using asset frameworks.
• At brownfield facilities, asset-management frameworks are often used to add
context to data before it is put into the cloud.
• Using Ignition Edge or MQTT Transmission at the edge of the network, you can
get data to the cloud with context without additional asset frameworks.
Benefits of Ignition/Cirrus Link Cloud Solutions
Benefit: Use cloud computing and edge computing together.
• Some analysts are predicting that the edge will make the cloud less relevant.
• However, we view edge computing as being essential to getting information
across the enterprise, especially into the cloud.
• With these solutions, you can get the best of both: the speed & local control
of the edge and the big-picture data perspective of the cloud.
Benefits of Ignition/Cirrus Link Cloud Solutions
Benefit: Bridge the gap between OT and IT.
• Help OT and IT departments work as a more united team.
• IT understands cloud infrastructures, and are often familiar with
AWS/Azure services.
• OT can securely provide info to IT while maintaining their systems.
• The business side can start doing more with operational data.
Benefits of Ignition/Cirrus Link Cloud Solutions
Benefit: Bridge the gap between OT and IT.
• The Ignition industrial application platform with Cirrus Link Modules provides
the most secure, simple, effective, and affordable OT-to-IT bridge.
Questions & Comments
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Vannessa Garcia x231
Vivian Mudge x253
Account Executives
Myron Hoertling x224
Shane Miller x218
Ramin Rofagha x251
Maria Chinappi x264
Dan Domerofski x273
Lester Ares x214
Melanie Hottman
Director of Sales:
800-266-7798 x247
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Travis Cox
Co-Director of Sales Engineering:
ext. [email protected]