ThingWorx Industrial Connectivity incorporates the market-leading industrial machine connectivity, industrial IoT protocols supporting IoT gateway, OPC DA server and other industrial drivers developed by Kepware to work natively with ThingWorx IoT platform. It enables monitoring, management and automation of multiple devices through one intuitive user interface.
Features
Accessibility
KEPServerEX provides data access for client applications (such as MES and SCADA) and IoT and Big Data analytics software via OPC, proprietary protocols (including GE NIO, SuiteLink/FastDDE, and Splunk), IT protocols (including MQTT, REST, ODBC, and SNMP), and flow measurement export to common Oil & Gas industry formats.
Optimization
KEPServerEX optimizes communications and reduces network and device load via data conditioning and reduction, customized load balancing, and protocol-specific optimization.
Aggregation
KEPServerEX simplifies the configuration of connected applications by providing a single point of entry to all information—eliminating the need to purchase, operate, troubleshoot, and maintain multiple disparate solutions for discrete connectivity.
Connectivity
KEPServerEX supports the broadest range of drivers available, including current and legacy devices across various verticals, a variety of wired and wireless network mediums, and connectivity to databases, custom software applications, and other OPC servers.
Security
KEPServerEX includes a variety of tools that control user access to the server, data source, or data values, regulate read/write access, provide the ability to connect or disconnect client applications and support the configuration of secure data tunnels.
Diagnostics
KEPServerEX isolates device and application communications for troubleshooting, offering OPC diagnostics for real-time and historical views of OPC events. KEPServerEX also supports communications diagnostics to capture the protocol frames transferred between the server and any device.
Benefits
Supports a variety of wired and wireless network mediums for Ethernet, serial, and proprietary network
Supports telemetry configurations with modem support, scheduling, and other advanced features
Rapid project deployment via automatic tag generation and device discovery
Configuration API for third-party server management
Simulation options for testing prior to deployment
Data conditioning and reduction, minimizing bandwidth and resource utilization
Multiple redundancy options, ensuring maximum uptime in critical environments
Load-balancing for throttling demand across the network
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) linking between homogenous and heterogeneous system
Streamlined UI that enables users to manage device connectivity with minimal effort
Robust security features for restricting access to the server, data source, and data values
Rich event logging and diagnostics for easy troubleshooting
ThingWorx Industrial Connectivity – KEPServer EX