Edge Controllers Address Advanced Automation at Hannover Messe 2022

June 20, 2022

The latest controllers provide the foundation for industrial Internet connectivity. These devices feature a single control engine and a universal programming environment for application portability across multiple hardware platforms.

Alix Paultre

Related To: Electronic Design

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The latest controllers from Emerson provide the foundation for industrial Internet connectivity. They feature a single control engine and a universal programming environment for application portability across multiple hardware platforms. For example, their RX3i controllers have built-in security protocols with cybersecurity tools to help protect against unauthorized code as well as man-in-the-middle and denial of service attacks.

Scalable and available in multiple form factors to support a wide variety of industrial applications, it can be configured for simplex and redundant operation, at incremental frame rates as fast as 3 ms in any configuration. The solution is built on a scalable, synchronized, hot-standby redundancy control platform to ensure uninterrupted control of your applications and processes with total transparency with switchover time as fast as 300 ms.

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About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.