Hi guys, I have a general question on Benthos-umh.
Benthos looks very promising, and I've gotten a demo from @Brian Pribe yesterday, which was great. It did leave me with one question as an Ignition integrator.
- Benthos is, as I understood really meant to place as close to the edge/plc's as possible and to be the primary retriever of data. I think it's really nice that it is build up with yaml, so OT with ci/cd becomes very feasable.
- However, it is not meant for controlling PLC's, but mostly for getting data out of it. is that correct?
- So if you want an Ignition as a scada system on the plant floor, which does do the controlling of PLC's, and you'd like to use UMH, what would be the dream-setup in your eyes?
The options I see:
- Ignition reading/writing to the PLC, benthos reading from the PLC, but it might have a bit different values, because polling is not at exactly the same moment
- Ignition reading/writing to the PLC, opening up as an OPC server, which Benthos reads and plugs into the UMH
- Ignition reading/writing to the PLC, Ignition publishing values to MQTT in the UMH-datacontract, so in this case you would not be using Benthos
Am I missing options? I'm curious to how you guys place it next to a scada/iiot system.