M2Cloud
M2Cloud allows you to have a global view of all the devices installed in your factory. Our cloud-based solution allows you to collect data from MES, PLCs and sensors. It also allows remote maintenance to be conducted easily and securely.
All our customers’ factory equipment is connected to the cloud through our M2Cloud Gateways.
Business case objectives
Smart and cost-efficient data collection and analytics is a fundamental part of the Industry 4.0.
Advantages for business
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Asset owners
Production
Improve production output
Cost
Decrease production cost
Downtime
Reduce downtime
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Machine builders / OEM
Revenue
Increase service revenue with data driven services
Cost
Decrease aftermarket service cost
Downtime
Reduce downtime
Downtime
Reduce downtime
To achieve these business objectives, the use cases to be implemented are:
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Condition Monitoring
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Predictive Maintenance
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Industrial Process Optimization
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Asset Performance Management
No data. No party.
Having access to essential data in a centralized place, such as the cloud or a data center, is the fundamental starting point for enabling these primary use-cases and meeting business objectives.
M2Cloud was specifically developed to address the following key challenges for Industrial IoT:
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Factory floor challenges
Many data sources: PLC, MES, databases and more
Many protocols: OPC, Modbus, MQTT, SCADA and more
High number of sensors
Separated networks / OT and IT team collaboration
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Remote assets challenges
Transitioning from basic telemetry to comprehensive smart monitoring
How to collect more data but transfer less?
Unreliable and intermittent connectivity
Managing large volume of assets
Inside customer firewalls
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Mesh VPN architecture
Traditional VPNs come with availability and performance bottlenecks. M2Cloud is decentralized; tunnels are created per-host and on-demand as needed.
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Traditional VPN
A conventional VPN works in a hub-spoke pattern, such that all traffic flows through the central “hub”, regardless of where the other devices are. This is simple to maintain for small deployments and is generally what you want when using a VPN to allow access to a private corporate network.
Unfortunately, this architecture performs poorly when nodes are trying to talk to each other, as all traffic has to go via a centralized node.
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M2Cloud
A mesh network has the same purpose, although the approach is different.
Rather than flowing through a single server, the data flows directly from node to node without ever touching the server.
