Industrial Real-Time WLAN for Control and Safety

In modern factories and industrial environments, every millisecond counts. Reliable, low-latency wireless networks are the backbone of safe, flexible, and efficient operations. Real-time WLAN enables ultra-low latency, high-reliability communication for critical control and safety systems – from machine coordination to emergency stops. It brings mobility, flexibility, and safety to operations – all without the limitations […]

Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) – Milestones in IIOT communication

SPE: The new Ethernet standard for building technology and Industry 4.0 Single Pair Ethernet – or “SPE” for short – is the new, much sought-after Ethernet standard for digitalized industry and the Internet of Things. And SPE also offers exciting prospects for building technology: Because SPE promises unhindered communication between two areas which have so […]

Agile IoT Service, Custom Solutions from W&T

Can you imagine retrofitting sensors in your system, capturing signals for further processing, connecting self-contained systems to each other or incorporating additional actuators? No problem! And if needed W&T can also implement monitoring and recording of data points, creating application-specific visualisations or sending alarms for defined events. In addition they offer the ability to link […]

Web-IO – System integration Automation with standard protocols

Integrating signals with Modbus-TCP, OPC UA/DA, REST or MQTT Automation technology in industry most often involves hardware components from many different manufacturers combined in a common system. It used to be that the data exchange needed for such systems was handled by many different fieldbus systems. Even before the advent of Industry 4.0 there has […]

Firewall router – Network segmentation/isolating

The requirements for IT security are continually increasing in industry. Yet at the same time we often see a lack of personnel resources for implementing this security. The IT security products from W&T are designed for straightforward implementation of concrete security requirements. As a basic measure for many IT security concepts the W&T micro-firewalls isolate […]

USB-/Com-Servers: More than simple device servers

Com-Servers and USB-Servers are in a class of their own because in contrast to many commercially available serial device servers and USB device servers they are not simply a power-saving computer with a piece of rather complicated software, but rather “contain” a service which is vital for any critical use: As long as there are […]

Switching by phone call – Thanks to VolP and SIP

Open gates or doors remotely? Trigger alarms by switching signal lamps, horns, bells or sirens? Control outdoor lighting? All it takes is a phone call.   Voice-Over-IP Voice-Over-IP has been an established communication standard for years. The advantage of this technology is that telephones, PCs and other terminal devices can operate in one and the […]

Web-IOs now also with OPC UA

The Web-IO range from Wiesemann & Theis (W&T) now supports OPC UA, one of the most essential common communication standards. Now Web-IOs can make even older machines, controllers and measuring devices viable for the future. That’s a great benefit! The Web-IOs allow traditional automation components and various measuring points to communicate with any other machine, […]

Network one-way street

The Fix Defined Firewall links computers to networks with no feedback, so that the computers are able to receive only. All received network packets are passed on in one direction to the reading host. Data traffic to the safe network is not possible – neither from the reading computer nor from the firewall itself. How […]

MQTT broker for the control cabinet

With the new MQTT broker for DIN rail mount Wiesemann & Theis GmbH (W&T) has expanded their range of IoT and Industry 4.0 products. Benefits: MQTT is an M2M protocol for data communication even over unstable connection lines and is finding increasing use in IoT and Industry 4.0. Various peers exchange data over a central […]