Leveraging Operational Data in the Cloud

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

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. 229travis@inductiveautomation.com