Companies involved in automation and maintenance of critical equipments, such as pipelines, gas and chemical tanks, energy plants, water treatment plants, do recognize the importance of gathering field data and make it available to enterprise backend systems.
Due to the variety of manufacturers and technologies used in automation systems, integrating so many different components in one solution can be quite a challenge. BITX for Automation is a vertical APPWARE framework, which provides a specialized and robust monitoring & communication infrastructure for the automation sector. BITX for Automation relies on the BITX CORE component, a special kind of middleware which identifies a set of services and infrastructure components, designed for machine to machine applications.
Furthermore, thanks to the use of BITXml (www.bitxml.org), an open and flexible communications protocol, BITX for Automation easily brings field data from remote devices to existing enterprise applications. If instead you need to build from scratch a custom Monitoring and Control application, a dedicated SDK will reduce considerably your efforts.
With the models and tools provided with the BITX for Automation APPWARE, you can easily model your devices, integrate heterogeneous data systems and protocols, (BACNet, LonWorks, ModBus and ProfiNet) and build remote control applications in several fields, such as:
Tanks monitoring and control
Oil & Gas metering
Photovoltaic stations monitoring
Pipe line monitoring
LABVIEW COMPLIANCE
For those using LabView as a development tool, BITX for Automation comes with a BITX-LabView-VI universal interface. This VI (Virtual Instrument) will make sure that any application developed with LabView can communicate directly with an external BITX infrastructure, so that field data can be made available to enterprise backend systems. In particular, the BITX-LabVIEW-VI will add to any application developed using the LabView environment, the capability of long range wireless communications and a direct link to BITX for Automation, turning a stand-alone system into an “M2M application”.
Once field devices or complex systems are connected to the BITX framework, it will be easy to take advantage of all features provided by the BITX-Middleware Core and integrate remote data into enterprise systems or develop a custom remote monitoring application.
