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 […]

A Wind Farm’s 4G Upgrade

“Legacy OT (Operational Technology) equipment such as controllers, monitoring devices, analysers, that gather data from site assets and communicate to the monitoring servers such as SCADA systems, were based on serial communications. They employed serial ports as means of comms channel/connection to the systems. With the advancement in OT networking, serial communication has now become […]

Kapsch TrafficCom Australia case study

Within the tolling road-side system, there are switches in the technical shelter area connected to a Web-I/O. If a switch is operated (ex: a door is opened) an SNMP trap will be sent to the monitoring system. It includes standard digital input and output signals for connection to peripherals in order to provide status of […]

Top cybersecurity tips for Businesses

For SMEs (small to medium-sized enterprises) in Australia, prioritizing cybersecurity is key to protect themselves. Start by using strong, unique passwords and enabling multi-factor authentication to protect your systems. Regularly backing up your data ensures you can recover from incidents like ransomware attacks. Investing in small, compact firewalls such as the Microwalls from W&T can […]

Galvanic isolation for USB devices

USB Isolators protect from faults and destruction. Along with Ethernet and WLAN, USB is among the most widely used communication interfaces. Even in industrial PCs the traditional COM ports (RS232/422/485) have largely disappeared in favour of multiple USB interfaces. Ethernet network access points are by default equipped with at least 1kV of galvanic isolation to […]

OPC DA – OPC data access – The process data interpreter

Automation technology most often involves hardware components from many different manufacturers combined in a system. It used to be that every manufacturer went his own way when it comes to passing process data up to the software level. This is true of both the physical communications path and the data format. To get away from […]

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 products for ITS

Wiesemann und Theis (W&T), a German manufacturer of microcomputers, offers a range of Web-IO products that bring several benefits to intelligent transport systems (ITS) in Australia: Remote Monitoring and Control: W&T’s Web-IO products, for example item 57730 ,enable remote monitoring and control of various traffic management devices and sensors. Using configurable actions you monitor the […]

Fast and simple USB devices in the network

Are you looking for simple and fast USB device Server in the network which are easy to install? The industrial-grade W&T USB Server (Megabit and Gigabit) provide you with access to any USB device via the network. Thanks to the high interoperability of more than 99% you can be sure that your device will be […]

WireGuard – fast, modern, secure VPN Tunnel

The W&T Microwall VPN Firewall router has WireGuard integrated, an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant than OpenVPN. WireGuard is designed as a general purpose VPN […]