Connected Plant
The two ways a machine talks: measurement that arrives, and control that is sent.
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- IoT Gateways The box between the plant network and this platform. A gateway rather than a direct device connection because
- IoT Devices Sensors, meters, counters, cameras and readers, each bound to the machine it measures.
- Signals What a device measures, one row per quantity. The scaling lives here because it is a property of the measureme
- Readings The series. A sensor that returns a value it does not believe is worse than one that returns nothing, which is
- Alert Rules A threshold, and how long it has to be true. Without the second, every rule fires on a single noisy sample and
- Alerts What fired, with the threshold AS IT WAS. A rule changes; the alerts it already raised keep the threshold they
- PLC Controllers Writes are OFF by default, and that is deliberate: a write to a running machine is a physical action, and the
- PLC Tags A memory address in a machine. The min and max are enforced on THIS side of the network, where the error messa
- Tag Bindings What a tag MEANS, and the reason this integration is configuration rather than code. "DB10.DBW4" is meaningles
- PLC Writes Every value this platform sends to a machine, requested and approved separately, with the old value recorded.
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