Litmus Edge

LoopEdge option for connection with industrial equipment

Vorteile:

The device offered by Litmus called Loopedge is an excellent product since it is an easy-to-use tool, it has various types of communication, which can be used to connect industrial equipment. you can program a vizualizacion very fast and simple. it is also easy to link with other existing applications and excellent support.

Nachteile:

sometimes it does not allow to save the changes made in the Flows

LoopEdge Device from Litmus

Kommentare: In my experience is a good tool to integrate different devices and collect data to get a good data analysis

Vorteile:

About connectivity i think is a great tool because has the possibility to add several devices of different brands(Siemens, Honeywell, Omron, etc... ) I think is very easy the way to add each device. Condition to different db instances, it make from this a big IIoT tool.

Nachteile:

Yo need enough experience in the use of develop languages(json, jscrip, html, etc..) You need training about Node Red for example to use flows

Good Edge Device

Kommentare: The flexible programming via NodeRed is very helpful if one wants to process and Display data. In one Project, we had to implement a lot of logic. There, we observed that the user interface lags a lot. Several times we made the experience that the flows Service hangs and has to be restarted from the console. We use the console rather often, which is necessary but not really intended by the Vendor. Besides this, it is very convenient to add new data channels and to quickly provide the data to Operators on a Dashboard.

Vorteile:

It is very easy to connect a PLC and to get data from it

Nachteile:

Connection to database requires explicit insert Statements. Other Vendors (e.g. Inductive automation) offer db Connection that can be established without db programming knowledge

About Litmus

Kommentare: Good partnership, continuous communication and regular meeting with [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] allows good follow of projects and issues

Vorteile:

Flexibility of the solution, with multiple opportunity platform. Easy connection with support of all of ours PLC types

Nachteile:

Sometimes some issues with hanging, integration to existing architecture sometimes tricky

Loop Edge Review

Vorteile:

The loop edge platform is very intuitive and bridges the gap of having certain technical expertise to connect to the data sources and configuring data tags. Every module is designed thoughtfully to categorize into different steps of data acquisition & processing

Nachteile:

The Loop edge is missing the Asset framework associated to the data. Since this edge solution is built for IIoT applications, the data we're dealing with is obviously from the assets. This reference is missing in the data infrastructure of loop edge. This same context can also be utilized to define DBA in the cloud storage northbound. I firmly believe that the Asset hierarchy/folders and a digital twin should be incorporated into the Loop Edge framework to streamline the DAQ and Processing.