Weidmuller’s Data Demo Uses Automation Components

Aug. 27, 2024
With a focus on data connectivity and data availability, the company demonstrated the simplicity and conductivity of their radios through a live demo, showing how data can be connected and accessed across different components.

“Being connected is what we stand for here today,” said Ken Crawford, Weidmuller’s director of automation. At Automate 2024, Crawford talked about role of data connectivity and availability in IoT systems, highlighting the seamless integration of various components and the use of radios to transmit data.

He explained that an edge agent mines the data from the PLC controller and presents the data to an iPad using WiFi.

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