Leveraging Operational Data in the Cloud
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The document outlines a presentation by Inductive Automation on leveraging cloud solutions with their industrial application platform, Ignition. Key topics include integrating operational data into cloud services like AWS and Azure, addressing the benefits and challenges of cloud usage, and methods for securely transferring data from the edge to the cloud. Additionally, it highlights how Ignition and Cirrus Link solutions can bridge operational technology and information technology, thereby enhancing data accessibility and operational efficiency.
Leveraging Operational Data in the Cloud
- 2. Presenter Travis Cox Co-Director of Sales Engineering Inductive Automation
- 3. 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
- 4. 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
- 5. Used by Major Companies Worldwide
- 6. 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
- 7. Panelist Arlen Nipper CTO and Co-Founder, Cirrus Link Solutions
- 8. 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
- 9. 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
- 10. 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
- 11. 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!
- 12. 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
- 13. Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud Three major services in AWS: • Kinesis Streams • DynamoDB • S3 Data Lake
- 14. 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.
- 15. 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.
- 16. 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.
- 17. Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud
- 18. Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud Two major services in Azure: • Power BI • Machine Learning
- 19. 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
- 20. 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
- 21. Ways to Use Operational Data In The Cloud
- 22. 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?”
- 23. 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
- 24. 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
- 25. 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
- 26. 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
- 27. Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud Using the AWS Injector Module
- 28. Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud Using the Azure Injector Module
- 29. Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud Azure IoT Hub Kinesis Connect from the Edge
- 30. Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud Connect from IIoT MQTT Solutions
- 31. Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud Azure IoT Hub Kinesis Connect from Any Installed Ignition Solution
- 32. 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
- 33. 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.
- 34. Ways to Get Operational Data Into The Cloud Big Access to Big Data to Real Value
- 35. 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
- 37. 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.
- 38. 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.
- 39. 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.
- 40. 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.
- 41. 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.
- 44. Questions & Comments Jim Meisler x227 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 Jeff Osterback x207 Travis Cox Co-Director of Sales Engineering: ext. 229 travis@inductiveautomation.com