DataHub - Transmit your data everywhere
Transmit your data everywhere (safely): Secure real-time data communication for Industrial IoT and Industry 4.0
- Versatile – An industrial middleware layer capable of connecting with any SCADA system or other ICS technologies.
- Real-Time – Provides real-time connectivity to and from the field for real-time viewing and interaction.
- Single dashboard – Unified view for all data even if coming from different sources.
- Sure – No open incoming firewall ports, no VPN and proxy support.
Who uses it and why
SKKYNET is the new technology for industrial IoT that allows you to create local and geographical networks with secure and fast communications, allowing you to connect sensors, devices and machinery present in the area to create architectures and solutions for Industry 4.0.
Thanks to the special DHTP protocol, specially developed by SKKYNET, it is possible to realize real-time communications with very low latency (more than 50.000+ variations per second can be managed) even in cloud configurations.
The DHCP protocol also allows you not to change the configuration of the currently installed Firewalls and avoid using VPN (Virtual Private Network) greatly simplifying the installation of the system.
The technology SKKYNET interfaces natively with the main industrial market standards by creating bidirectional real-time connections a OPC UA e DA, client and server, Modbus, etc…and likewise allows connection with any SQL database, Excel spreadsheet, application program, Azure IoT Hub, Google IoT, Amazon IoT or any standard MQTT client or broker as well as embedded systems.
Over 16.000 deployments in 86 countries: energy, discrete manufacturing, water/wastewater, building automation, oil and gas, minerals and mining
used by 9 of the top 10 automation suppliers worldwide
OEM relationships with various hardware and software vendors
- Why do our more than 1.800 customers choose us? safety, reliability and flexibility
- Recognition by major market players and analysts, including Gartner
- Case Histories and References all over the world
- Two locations: Toronto, Canada and Yokohama, Japan
Secure industrial middleware that connects to virtually any SCADA system
- Provides real-time connectivity to and from multiple data sources
- View a single unified view of all your data sources
- The only secure solution for OPC UA / DA network outside a firewall: no inbound firewall ports open, no VPNs and proxy support
- Connect to Azure IoT Hub, Google IoT, Amazon IoT Core and any broker MQTT standard (bidirectional)
- MQTT brokers in the plant (private / hybrid / cloud)
- Lo remote configuration tool allows users to set up a network of DataHub installations from one location
Key points of the solution
- Access to highly industrial control system everywhere and industrial network
- La solution end-to-end “plug and play” most immediate on the market
- Minimum cost total ownership, no capital investment necessary
- Exploit them best third-party technologies securely
Sharing data between IT and OT departments and even third parties outside corporate networks presents a serious challenge: TRANSMIT YOUR DATA EVERYWHERE.
SECURITY – Current industrial protocols require that remote devices and plant networks allow incoming connection requests
PERFORMANCE – Current high-security solutions cannot offer real-time bi-directional scalability or performance
APPROACH – Until now, no solution has seamlessly and flexibly integrated industrial IoTand systems while preserving the in-plant experience
Some examples of the architectures
MQTT Smart Broker
On-premise or cloud MQTT broker to aggregate and secure MQTT data. It offers fast and automatic parsing to OPC UA and DA based on multiple simultaneous JSON formats, IETF JSON schemas and Sparkplug B.
- Publish MQTT data to any supported cloud broker, SCADA or historical system.
- Selectively prevent or allow two-way communications
- Inform each client if an MQTT client connection fails
- Configure multiple JSON formats and Sparkplug B to simplify integration with field devices.
On-premise or in the cloud – you choose
For customers requiring an on-premise solution, DataHub MQTT Smart Broker makes it easy to ingest data from the control network and integrate with any MQTT client, acting as an internal smart broker.
In the cloud, DataHub is available on the Azure Marketplace. Connect remote facilities using DataHub tunneling or MQTT, share your data with Historian, OSIsoft PI or any SCADA using MQTT or OPC UA.
Find out more on the DataHub technical site
OPC Gateways
Do you need to integrate OPC DA and UA? As an OPC gateway, DataHub allows you to connect any OPC DA server or client to any OPC UA server or client, locally or across the plant network.
- Protect your investment in OPC
- System protection for the future
- Simplify migration to OPC UA
Find out more on the DataHub technical site
IoT gateway
DataHub IoT Gateway streams real-time OPC UA and OPC DA industrial data directly to Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), device clouds and big data analytics platforms.
- Connects to any MQTT broker, including Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, Google IoT and Amazon IoT Core.
- Build an in-plant IoT hub with our optional broker capabilities.
- It supports both publishing and subscription
Main benefits
- No restrictions on the number of points
- It includes a client and server interface for both OPC UA and DA
Find out more on the DataHub technical site
DataHub Edge
DataHub Edge offers a secure and flexible edge solution that includes all the software needed for on-premises and cloud deployment. A single, drop-in piece of software connects new or existing on-premises systems, and mirrors process data to an identical component on Azure, which seamlessly connects to IoT Hub, Event Hub, or any other application.
Tunneling
Tunneling provides an easy-to-configure, secure, and robust network for data protocols that are difficult to bridge or rely on insecure architectures. Tunneling with DataHub goes beyond the basics, allowing you to integrate data without exposing networks.
Use DHCP to ensure optimal security, resiliency, and data throughput.
Connect any supported protocol including OPC DA, OPC UA, Modbus and DDE.
Seamlessly integrate other DataHub features, such as data logging, bridging, redundancy, and scripting.
Find out more on the DataHub technical site
Skkynet technology was created to transmit your data in real time (low latency), securely, over local or geographic networks. The good practice of network segmentation and conduit creation according to the IEC 62443 standard brings more complexity to the configuration of equipment and firewalls.
Datahub allows communication between the various corporate network levels, managed by firewalls, with bidirectional connections but without opening the entrance doors, allowing the transfer of large amounts of data in real-time mode.
DataHub integrates with the SQL Databases of the MES level
Below is an example of integration between the process level and the MES level in which datahub integrates with relational databases via the logger, i.e. the ODBC interface.
Tunneling communication between plant areas
Through DataHub Gateway it is possible to create encrypted connections, in tunneling, on a local network, using OPC DA/UA or the Modbus protocol for interfacing with the devices.
In particular DataHub DA is designed to completely replace DCOM in TCP communications.
Furthermore, to reduce the network load and to avoid blockages in communication, DataHub uses a Local approach for transactions (Local OPC transactions).
This mechanism maintains a copy of the data in the local caches (client side and server side) performing a constant synchronization with the result that the data traveling through the network is the least amount possible and the OPC Server and the OPC Client are protected by possible network irregularities.
To create a secure communication between two sites, it is possible to use an architecture based on Skkyhub, the powerful secure gateway in the cloud by Skkynet which allows real-time data streaming (in tunnel/mirror mode) while keeping the outgoing ports of the firewalls closed. both sites.
The connection to SkkyHub takes place via Cogent DataHub via a (bidirectional) tunnel / mirror connection only outgoing.
The DataHub "tunnel" functionality allows you to send and receive encrypted data over your private network or the Internet via the DHTP protocol.
This configuration allows you to not open any firewall ports on the local DataHub, while still establishing a secure outbound connection. The "mirror" function allows the transmission of data and all updates on the destination DataHub through the "triangulation" performed by SkkyHub.
The DataHub is a "slave" tunnel.
Each DataHub that needs to connect to SkkyHub must be configured as a slave mode tunneling.
Make sure that no firewall ports are ever open on your local system, as Cogent DataHub always only makes secure outgoing connections.
DataHub is an "authoritative" source.
At the same time, in a typical scenario of sending data to the Cloud to SkkyHub, DataHub is considered to be the most authoritative (read best) source of the data set.
In case of disconnection from the network it is considered to update SkkyHub with the latest data from the DataHub running on the local system and not vice versa.
The data flow can be bidirectional.
It is important to note that the “slave” and “authoritative” features of the connection only apply to startup and reconnection.
Once the connection is established, the connection is replicated between DataHub and SkkyHub.
The data flow can be configured to be bidirectional or unidirectional, depending on your needs.
The increasing need for Cloud solutions for IOT applications and in general the growing need for interfacing the plant with Enterprise-level Production Analysis systems makes new safe and easy-to-use technologies indispensable for the integration of these strategic projects for the agency.
DataHub through MQTT allows you to connect virtually any platform or cloud service that uses this standard and in particular DataHub IoT Gateway is available pre-configured for:
MQTT Brokers
It is also possible to transform DataHub Gateway into an MQTT Broker to interface each MQTT Client device by exploiting DataHub's powerful OPC (DA/UA) connectivity features.
Overall Architecture
Graphic example of overall connection architecture of DataHun to Cloud services.
DMZ based architecture
Example of DataHub-based connection architecture for integrating Cloud services through a DMZ layer.
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