ICONICS announced its new IoT Gateway Suite and enhanced integration with the next generation of Microsoft Azure cloud platform and services at Hannover Messe 2016.
ICONICS IoT Gateway Suite communicates with Azure applications using common transport protocols. Once the IoT Gateway is online, it connects to Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, so that it can authenticate, transmit and receive data. Acting as a secure message broker, the Microsoft Azure IoT Hub allows for remote device management, provisioning and configuration.
The IoT Gateway Software Suite is ICONICS' launch pad for a new software architecture for its visualization, analytics and mobile solutions based on Microsoft Azure Service Fabric and microservices. With Service Fabric, ICONICS is utilizing Azure as a platform as a service (PaaS) to deploy and scale applications for Industrie 4.0 and IoT deployments.
IoT gateways help enable the implementation of low-cost hardware devices that can be placed in remote locations or locations where there is information to be sent to Azure. Configuration of the ICONICS IoT Gateway Software Suite includes onboard energy management, building and industrial protocols, such as BACnet, OPC UA, Modbus, SNMP and Web services.
Keywords: Visualization, Analytics, Mobile Solutions, Microsoft Azure, Platform as a Service (PaaS), IoT, Industrie 4.0, ARC Advisory Group.