Cloud Connectivity for Industrial IoT Applications

A hardware communication hub such as an RTU or a gateway is often the best tool to collect, format, and forward industrial automation system big data to the cloud.

Industrial automation systems are increasingly using the cloud as a repository for big data storage and as a means for accessing and implementing internet of Things (IoT) applications. The cloud provides a low cost and secure way to store big data and it offers a wide range of wired and wireless access methods to this data from anywhere in the world, chief among them the internet. In an industrial setting, integrating IoT devices are over the internet creates what is called an industrial IoT (IIoT) application.