hopit Edge is an industrial IIoT gateway for machine connectivity, developed by HEAP Engineering GmbH. It connects PLCs, CNC controllers, industrial devices, MQTT brokers, and cloud services through documented integrations including OPC UA, Siemens S7, Siemens SINUMERIK, Beckhoff ADS and TwinCAT, Modbus, MQTT, and Azure IoT Hub.
Start with the hopit Edge overview, compare the supported machine and cloud connectivity targets, or learn how hopit Edge supplies data to hopit Manufacturing.
Connect
Connect machines and controllers through supported industrial interfaces, then route structured data to local or cloud destinations.
Operate
Provision, configure, monitor, update, and maintain hopit Edge devices through the documented operations features.
Stream
Collect, transform, store, and route machine data between industrial systems, local services, MQTT brokers, and cloud platforms.
Workflow
Roles
The hopit ecosystem empowers people with different roles and responsibilities to join their skills and benefit from each other. It provides a common platform for all working groups involved in developing, operating and analyzing industrial facilities.
Management
Executive managers need conditioned information of an entire system, to make trendsetting decisions and learn from previous processes.
The way from the physical level to a generalized system overview of decentralized applications can be a long and rocky journey. Developers have to aggregate the right data and need a possibility to deploy and test their code. Operators need to roll-out and monitor this at scale and Data Scientists have to condition the aggregated data and present them as coherent and valuable information. Finally, the IT Department has to guarantee a secure operation of devices connected to the internet.
Developer
While developing applications for industrial facilities, to ensure a stable & robust operation and to optimize processes with the help of conditioned data, developers have to monitor PLC variables over a long time period and need remote connection to the machines.
- Monitor all PLC variables and IPC resources automatically.
- Connect to IPC's via your Development IDE or Remote Desktop.
- Version, test, release & deploy your code using a complete industrial DevOps pipeline
Operator
Commissioning IPC's in a production line and keeping their software up to date in the field can be tedious and chaotic tasks. With hopit, workers can set-up IPC's with a single click. Service technicians can roll-out PLC software updates, maintained in an App Store, at scale.
- Set-up multiple IPC's in the production line with a single click.
- Staged roll-out of PLC software updates to machines in the field.
- Get customizable alerts from all machines in the fields via push messages or e-mail.
Data Scientist
Data from sensors and actors are the source for all AI & analytics algorithms for industrial applications, no matter how complex. Scraping them at scale in heterogeneous environments is a main strength of hopit.
- Provide real & live data from industrial facilities accessible by a simple API.
- Use a container based platform to run your algorithms and visualize your results.
IT Expert
IT security and industrial applications connected to cloud based services are diametrically opposed demands. Managing this at scale while keeping highest up-times possible is a huge, but unavoidable mission.
Modern IPC's ship with operating systems like Windows, Linux or FreeBSD. To ensure a secure operation in cloud enabled environments, security patches of the OS and the applications are absolutely necessary. The hopit platform enables you to roll-out pre-tested software updates in stages. You can run scheduled and cloud managed update- and cleanup jobs to ensure best possible customer satisfaction.