Intel® Edge Controls for Industrial

Create software-defined industrial control solutions with this prevalidated reference platform that integrates real-time compute, standards-based connectivity, safety, virtualization, and IT-like management.

Overview

Provides a variety of deterministic real-time operating systems.

Brings orchestration of software programmable logic controller (PLC) applications to the industrial edge with additional application management software.

Enables cloud-to-edge manageability of application services with over-the-air updates.

Software Architecture

Edge Control Protocol Bridge

Connect multiple industrial protocols to reduce complexity and improve flexibility. Take advantage of the OPC UA Publish-Subscribe protocol with Time-Sensitive Networking to gain deterministic communication.

ACRN* Type-1 Hypervisor

Virtualize workloads with the ACRN* real-time hypervisor and consolidate physical hardware to reduce costs and improve reliability.

Real-Time Optimizations

Create custom embedded Linux* operating systems with Xenomai I-Pipe Kernel or Preempt-RT Kernel patches. Take advantage of preconfigured kernels and boot optimizations with real-time applications.

RTS Type-1 Hypervisor

Run real-time workloads in a partitioned and virtualized environment with this commercially available hypervisor.

Use Cases

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Machines

Enable precision computer numerical control (CNC), motion control, logic control, and the human-machine interface (HMI) via software PLCs on commodity industrial PCs.

Discrete Manufacturing

Take advantage of Type-1 hypervisors with a variety of industrial protocol libraries and software PLCs to consolidate heterogeneous environments at the edge.

Process Automation

Support deterministic networking to allow real-time interoperability of orchestrated microservices.

Robotics

Consolidate typical robot controller tasks and enable high-speed deterministic synchronized motion control.

Documentation

How It Works

Understand the components, services, architecture, and data flow in Edge Controls for Industrial.

Get Started

Access instructions for installing the software and validating the installation.

Tutorials

Follow step-by-step examples to become familiar with the core functionality of the software.

Edge Controls for the Industrial Protocol Bridge

View a single-system example that showcases the conversion of the OPC UA Client/Server to OPC UA Publish-Subscribe protocol.

Edge Controls for the Industrial OPC UA CODESYS

See how the Edge Control Protocol Bridge enables OPC UA Publish-Subscribe communication to a CODESYS application.

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Karbon 700

Create control solutions with this industrial PC based on the 8th Generation Intel® Core™ processor.

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IEI* TANK

Run more virtual machines at the edge with this platform based on Intel Core processors.

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Vecow SPC-5200

Move toward a software-defined factory infrastructure with Edge Controls for Industrial and this hardware.

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Maxtang mITX-WL10 

Combine this platform with the ACRN hypervisor for low-latency virtualized control applications.

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