Harvesting, storing, and accessing industrial data

摘要

Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) can concentrate data and work with the cloud to provide a powerful, scalable, and low-cost means to collect and distribute industrial facility data. Big Data analysis is among the enabling tools of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0. The data starts on the plant floor or other industrial facility as a discrete point, analog value, smart device status, a barcode scanned lot number, etc. This information must then be collected from these edge devices as a first step to Big Data storage and analysis.