To handle these requirements, ABB needed an automated communications platform that was highly reliable and that could easily scale and communicate massive amounts of data back for visualization and long-term storage in an enterprise historian.ThingWorx Kepware Edge allows the most valuable features of KEPServerEX to be deployed in Linux-based environments, enabling connectivity directly at the site of the machine, device, or sensor. All this meant that the automation of data collection was a huge undertaking, since the project infrastructure was immense and constantly in flux. It also needed to be able to reliably retrieve vast amounts of data from distant locations. With several new wells being introduced every day, ABB needed to be able to bring them on and off line in a highly streamlined and efficient manner furthermore, the method of configuring them needed to be simple, fast, and very reliable. Each of these wells have between 50 and 70 data points being scanned on a 30-second cycle time. The project called for between 1,000 and 1,500 well sites to come online in 2014, and beyond 6,000 by 2030, over an area of more than 4,500 km². One of the biggest technical challenges ABB faced with this project was automating the collection of well data. Kepware is developing these solutions to help the IIoT deliver on its promise of improved operational efficiency through applications like preventative maintenance, energy monitoring, product lifecycle insights, and global production Tracking. KEPServerEX is evolving with the IIoT to support platform independence and new methods of data access-including support for web-based technologies and publish/subscribe messaging protocols.
KEPServerEX provides a single integrated platform for collecting, aggregating, and providing secure access to your industrial operations data. Kepware’s industry-leading communications platform, KEPServerEX, delivers the most complete solution for device-to-cloud Interoperability. Interoperability is currently the greatest challenge facing the Internet of Things (IoT), and may be the missing link to implementing and realizing the value of many IIoT deployments. The IIoT requires technology that can solve the Interoperability challenges of device connectivity by reliably and securely delivering data across the public domain at a much larger scale than previously thought possible. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an evolution of existing technologies that enables end users to improve processes, drive productivity, and maintain an edge in our increasingly competitive global economy.
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