Sensor connection to the IIoT
Predictive maintenance without additional cabling
In order to implement Industry 4.0 applications in existing systems, extensive additional cabling has often been necessary up to now. With the new Bluetooth components from ifm, this can be avoided with a Bluetooth mesh and the Y-path for connecting to the IIoT becomes wireless.
With the new IO-Link Bluetooth adapter EIO344 and the Bluetooth base station EIO404, ifm offers a solution for providing sensor data wirelessly for IIoT applications without having to intervene in the control technology and lay additional cables. The Bluetooth adapter is integrated into the system between the IO-Link sensor and the existing cable and transmits the data to the base station via Bluetooth - a wireless Y-path. However, the new devices can not only be used to establish a point-to-point connection to the moneoblue app, for example, but also to set up a mesh network very easily. This networking offers two decisive advantages. Up to 50 IO-Link devices can be connected to a base station, and all that is needed is a single adapter within range of the base station. The data is then transferred from the base station to the appropriate moneo application via Ethernet.
The new components for connecting IO-Link sensors via a Bluetooth mesh also enable the implementation of an IIoT application in existing systems at low cost. Wear monitoring, predictive maintenance or energy efficiency applications can be implemented without the need to lay additional cables. Thanks to Bluetooth mesh technology, this is also possible for extensive systems, as the maximum Bluetooth range of around 20 meters only needs to be maintained to the next Bluetooth adapter. The configuration of the Bluetooth adapters - known as pairing - can be carried out using the moneoblue app on a smartphone. Alternatively, this is also possible via moneo configure.
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