Naturally, standard Ethernet does not guarantee real-time communication.
So, to provide guaranteed cycle times and latencies for machine control and process automation using Ethernet, vendors implemented real-time Fieldbus protocols on top of it.
Thereby creating a specialised type of Ethernet that is unusable for anything else, and causes fragmentation of industrial networks due to incompatibilities of Fieldbus protocols.
But yet, for the success of Industry 4.0, what is required is one type of Ethernet network that is usable for both, executing time-critical OT processes, as well as for non-time-critical collection of data from machines in a standardised and vendor-independent manner.
And this is what Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) seeks to achieve.
To understand how TSN is able to solve these challenges and its combination with OPC UA, I had a conversation with Bhagath Singh Karunakaran
Bhagath is the CEO and Founder of Kalycito Infotech Pvt Ltd, India, an IIoT Software Solutions Company with Full-Stack device to cloud capabilities, and is a recognised thought leader in this space due to its pioneering effort to create an Open-Source ecosystem around OPC UA and TSN on real-time Linux. Including the world's first OPC UA Pub-Sub implementation.
You can watch our conversation below, and here's the outline:
✔️ What is TSN and how does it work
✔️ Advantages of TSN over traditional Industrial Ethernet networks.
✔️ Running Fieldbus Protocols on TSN
✔️ Core elements of TSN for achieving time-deterministic communication
✔️ Requirements for machines to participate in TSN network
✔️ Importance of achieving field-level communication using OPC UA
✔️ Combination of OPC UA with TSN
✔️ The role played by OPC UA over TSN play in Industry4.0
✔️ OPC UA Pub-Sub over TSN for Sensor to cloud communication
✔️ Use cases of OPC UA over TSN in Manufacturing
✔️ Convergence of OPC UA over TSN and 5G for Industry 4.0
✔️ Commercialised products implementing OPC UA over TSN
✔️ Open Source crowd-funded OPC UA and TSN project
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Ep 22 : Building Scalable and Secure IIoT Solutions Using Open Source - Jeremy Theocharis (Co-Founder & CTO - United Manufactruing Hub) )
Ep 21: Edge AI: Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Computing at The Industrial Edge - Angelo Corsaro (CEO & CTO - ZettaScale Technology )
Ep 19: Application of Web 3 in Industrial IoT & Edge Computing - Rex St. John ( Jetson Software Ecosystem - NVIDIA )
Ep 18: Edge Computing for Industrial IoT - Dominik Pilat & John Kalfayan( Hivecell)
Ep 17: AutomationML, OPC UA & Asset Administration Shell for Industry4.0 - Dr. Miriam Schleipen ( Chief Research Officer, EKS InTec GmbH )
Ep 16: Application of Artificial Intelligence in Process Industries - Simon Rogers ( Digital Transformation Consultant, Yokogawa )
Ep 15: Edge Analytics and Intelligent Automation for Industrial IoT - Martin Thunman ( CEO & Co-Founder, Crosser )
Ep 14: IIoT Semantic interoperability with MTConnect - Russell Waddell ( Managing Director, MTConnect Institute )
Ep 13: Time-Series Databases for IIoT [ InfluxDB ] - Brian Gilmore ( Product Manager for IoT, InfluxData )
Ep 12: Embedded Machine Learning for IIoT - Zin Kyaw ( Senior User Success Engineer, Edge Impulse )
Ep 11: Global Industry Standards for Industrial IoT - Claude Baudoin ( cébé, OMG, IIC, Cutter )
Ep 10: Open Source Software for Industrial IoT - Frédéric Desbiens ( Program Manager - IoT and Edge Computing, Eclipse )
Ep 09: Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) 101 - Benson Hougland ( VP of Product Strategy, Opto22 )
Ep 08: Technical Foundations of IoT - Dominik Obermaier ( Co-Founder & CTO, HiveMQ )
Ep 07: Kafka for Industrial IoT Streaming - Kai Waehner ( Field CTO & Global Technology Advisor, Confluent )
Ep 06: Foundations of Industrial IoT Data Architecture - John Harrington ( Co-Founder, HighByte )
Ep 05: Advanced Plant-Floor Data Analytics - Marcos Taccolini ( Founder and CTO, Tatsoft )
Ep 04: A Practical Guide to IIoT Connectivity - Stan Schneider ( CEO, Real-Time Innovations )
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