Modbus polling and timeout budget: calculate the slow path
Estimate serial transaction time, include silent intervals and device response, and prevent offline devices from consuming the entire polling cycle.
Edge Computing
Edge gateways, industrial PCs, and on-premise compute for the plant floor.
Learning paths & worksheets: Industrial data connectivity: from register to consumer · Industrial data contract template
Historian sampling and deadband: budget storage without losing events
Estimate raw historian volume, distinguish acquisition from storage filtering, and validate compression against the signals and events that matter.
PLC vs PAC vs soft PLC: which controller fits the job
Compare PLCs, PACs, and software PLCs on determinism, I/O, tooling, and cost — plus when an IPC or edge controller is the better answer.
Industrial wireless: Wi-Fi 6, private 5G, and LoRa compared
Choose industrial wireless by requirements — Wi-Fi 6 for bandwidth, private 5G for mobility and determinism, LoRa and WirelessHART for sensors.
Industrial MQTT gateway checklist for a brownfield plant
The decisions that matter before an MQTT edge gateway leaves the lab: protocol drivers, buffering, namespaces, quality, security, and ownership.
Edge versus cloud analytics in industrial operations
Use latency, availability, bandwidth, data gravity, and governance to decide which analytics belong beside the machine and which can travel farther.
Edge gateway patterns for brownfield connectivity
Protocol conversion, buffering, and context at the edge — the four gateway patterns that connect legacy equipment to modern platforms.
OptoBlog — edge & IIoT practices
Opto 22's OptoBlog: edge devices, Node-RED, MQTT/Sparkplug, and practical IIoT project writeups.
HighByte — Industrial DataOps platform
HighByte: Industrial DataOps software for modeling, contextualizing, and governing data from edge to cloud.
Kepware industrial connectivity (Velotic)
Kepware (now part of Velotic): industrial connectivity software exposing hundreds of device protocols via OPC UA, MQTT, and more.
Terms in this topic
- Edge gateway
- Protocol-translating, buffering bridge between devices and platforms.
- Store and forward
- Buffering through outages, replaying on recovery.
Related topics
Industrial IoT / IIoT · MQTT · Factory Software · Industrial Networking · OPC UA · PLCs