Industrial Remote Monitoring Using Ignition Edge, Opto 22 groov EPIC and HiveMQ Cloud MQTT Broker

In this video, we will show you how to build a solution to remotely monitor your industrial assets using the Ignition Edge, Opto 22 groov EPIC Controller, MQTT Sparkplug and HiveMQ Cloud as the centralized MQTT broker.

Overview

On a factory-floor, the machinery is incredibly diverse. The production equipment originates from different vendors and connects to different systems that aren't engineered to communicate with each other. This makes remote monitoring of industrial assets a challenge.

To address this challenge and simplify remote connectivity and data collection between heterogeneous applications and devices from different vendors on the factory-floor, we will use a hub that acts as a single concentrator to connect to these equipment and publish the data using MQTT Sparkplug.

For the purpose of demonstration, we are using Ignition Edge platform, which has built-in driver support for many industry protocols and PLCs. The Ignition Edge can connect to the control program running on the Opto22 groov EPIC controller and pull temperature and LED tags for publishing as MQTT Sparkplug messages.

To transmit the tags as MQTT Sparkplug messages, we are going to use an Ignition Edge module called MQTT Transmission to build the required Sparkplug topic namespace and publish the tags to a centralized MQTT broker. The Ignition Edge gateway comes pre-installed locally on the Opto 22 groov EPIC but it can be installed even on a PC.

We are using HiveMQ Cloud that acts as the centralized broker and is capable of receiving MQTT Sparkplug messages and forwarding them to a visualization platform. Our visualization platform is an Ignition Gateway running on a PC. It uses two modules to achieve tag visualization – first, an MQTT Engine module for automatically pulling tags that we are publishing to the HiveMQ Cloud Broker, and second, the Perspective module for visualizing these tags once they are in our Ignition system. With visualization, you can remotely monitor your industrial assets.

Link to Resources:

👉 For more information on HiveMQ Cloud MQTT broker, visit: https://bit.ly/3inmNVx
👉 To get started on HiveMQ Cloud, read the technical documentation: https://bit.ly/3mhX4ie
👉 To learn the basics of MQTT IoT protocol, visit: https://bit.ly/3oC4lwv
👉 To get an overview of MQTT Sparkplug, visit: https://bit.ly/3CWdxzs
👉 To learn how to get started with MQTT Sparkplug, visit: https://bit.ly/3D4HjCq

-- Chapters / Table of Contents --

00:00 - Introduction
02:46 - Setting-up HiveMQ Cloud MQTT Broker
05:04 - Configuring Ignition Edge to Connect to Control Program
07:38 - Publishing MQTT Sparkplug Messages from Ignition Edge Designer
13:52 - Subscribing to MQTT Sparkplug Messages on Ignition Platform
16:14 - Visualising MQTT Sparkplug Messages using Ignition Perspective

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