From HMI/SCADA to an Enterprise Platform

The growing interest in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and the technology ecosystem surrounding it is opening the door for huge business opportunities in the coming years. At the core of these opportunities involving integrated IIoT applications and cloud services is the realization that software is the key factor to success in the IIoT era.

为了解决这一运动，Advantech将其重点放在开发其网站企业应用程序软件上。为了作为Advantech IIOT解决方案的核心，WebAccess已从HMI/SCADA软件转变为一个全面的IIOT软件平台，为系统集成商和我们的合作伙伴提供了开发IIOT和云应用程序的网关。

As Advantech’s new IIoT application software, WebAccess allows users to monitor and control their projects through a web browser. For the device layer of IIoT, Advantech WebAccess supports ample protocols and drivers to connect to more than 450 controllers and devices, making Advantech WebAccess flexible and suitable for a magnitude of IIoT applications and projects. WebAccess also provides the foundation of IIoT data collection and management with its open architecture and open interfaces, which are helpful for developing specific applications for different industry verticals.

To more completely address the vision of the IIoT and Industry 4.0 concepts, Advantech is advancing the WebAccess architecture to a public cloud design, targeted to provide centralized Big Data for large equipment vendors, system integrators and enterprises to configure, change, update or monitor their equipment, projects and systems all over the world in real time.

Advantechhas made these changes because we believe that, as IIoT and Industry 4.0 initiatives increase across industries, user behavior related to SCADA software will evolve from strict data acquisition and manipulation to business intelligence and Big Data analysis.