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Inductive Automation and Cirrus Link Solutions announced the March 28 release of Ignition Edge, a new line of Ignition products developed for the edge of the network. The news was announced at a press conference at the ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida.
Inductive Automation, based in Folsom, California, is an industrial automation software company. Its primary product, Ignition, is an industrial application platform with integrated tools for building solutions in human-machine interface (HMI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
Ignition Edge is a line of lightweight, lower-cost Ignition products to be embedded into field and OEM devices at the edge of the network. Ignition is designed to work on central servers and deploy to multiple clients, while Ignition Edge products can be installed on devices at the edge. With Ignition and Ignition Edge together, organizations can build more scalable enterprise-wide systems.
Ignition Edge consists of three products:
Ignition Edge Panel enables creation of local HMIs for field devices. It enables edge-of-network HMI functionality with Ignition features, including one local client, one remote web client for mobile access, and alarming features including email notification. It includes one week of data buffering for trending and local client fallback for mission-critical applications.
Ignition Edge Enterprise acts as an Agent Gateway in a multi-Gateway Ignition system by leveraging the Ignition Enterprise Administration Module (EAM). It requires that the EAM be installed on the central Ignition Gateway. Features include remote backup, restoration management, centralized monitoring of performance and health metrics, and remote alarm notification. Edge Enterprise comes with up to a week of data buffering, and it can synchronize local tag history to a central Ignition historian for store-and-forward.
Ignition Edge MQTT by Cirrus Link was developed by Cirrus Link Solutions, a strategic partner of Inductive Automation. Ignition Edge MQTT enables publication of field device data through MQTT. It can turns field devices, such as a touch panel or a client terminal, into a lightweight, MQTT-enabled edge gateway. Ignition Edge MQTT uses MQTT to transmit data to any MQTT broker and supports the Sparkplug data-encoding specification.
Keywords: SCADA, MQTT, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Edge of the Network, ARC Advisory Group.