Data Integration Framework to Collect Data from OT/IT Systems

Abstract

Industry 4.0 and industrial data processing, due to its inherent possibilities, is gaining more and more emphasis in production companies these days. In a corporate environment, the age of equipment is extremely heterogeneous, in addition to state-of-the-art equipment, legacy systems can also be found in the machine park, which do not have appropriate communication protocols. Also, with the increase in the number of data sources, the management of data is becoming more and more challenging. Not only the operational technology, but also the connection of different IT systems and the extraction of data pose challenges. The different data processing use-cases using partly or entirely the same data sources, so it is necessary to extract and transmit the data to the target systems in a standard way, and avoiding an increase in the number of point-to-point interfaces. In this work we present a possible framework, to solve the above mentioned problems in industrial environment, with the introduction of standardized naming conventions, OT/IT gateways, data integration and distribution layers.