Per PRWeb, it has been recently reported that B+B SmartWorx, powered by Advantech, officially announced the worldwide release of SmartSwarm351, part of the company’s IIoT innovation initiative. The SmartSwarm351 Modbus Eavesdropper recognizes and extracts data from existing Modbus SCADA systems, transforms it into actionable information, and presents it to IT systems without interfering with the Modbus Master.

SmartSwarm 351 discovers and maps the network, analyzes message exchanges between the existing OT master and slave devices, and uses this information to build a comprehensive picture of the status of the underlying plant. In near real time, Modbus data is delivered to IT/OT systems that normally would not see SCADA information. Unlike alternatives, this is accomplished without disrupting the Modbus Master and SCADA network communication.

The article went on to say, mission critical process control systems are completely undisturbed. Connecting to enterprise applications by a local Ethernet connection or an internal cellular modem, the gateway can switch between these connections at any time, providing redundancy.

Rather than overwhelm the IT/OT system with meaningless data, SmartSwarm 351 collects, filters, enriches and aggregates raw data through simple user configuration, requiring no programming. Using the newest IoT protocols, MQTT topics and JSON; payload formats securely construct the data so it is easily consumable by upstream IT applications.

Read more at PRWeb.