Industrial Information Hub

The Industrial Information Hub from Siemens ist an Industrial Edge app created for vertical data integration from OT to IT. It creates a scalable and reliable architecture to integrate manufacturing data from shopfloor all the way up to the cloud. 
The future proof solution for any industry.

Many data managing systems based on MQTT suffer from the fact that making sense out of the data is often very difficult. A flat list with often thousands of variables is tricky to use and retrieving them automatically is nearly impossible. 

The Information Hub resolves this by mapping all tags onto an OPC UA structure. This is highly standardized and anyone can pick the standard of his choice (in form of a companion specification) from the internet. This makes data retrieval much easier as there are assets for each machine with the corresponding signals inside. On top of this, the user can then create different views of his data to organize it even better (for example a special folder for energy data). Finally the Information Hub has a built in semantic graph. It is generated automatically from the OPC UA on the fly and can be queried. This allows other applications to retrieve information about machines directly and generically. This allows for self updating dashboards, automatic KPI calculation and much much more.