Smart buildings, smart grids and smart factories succeed most easily through smart integration of OT and IT. WAGO supplies the hardware, open gateway PLCs and open IT and OT solutions; Portainer manages what runs on them.
WAGO and Portainer have joined together to provide an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use solution for secure integration of OT and IT, addressing the constraints that stall these projects rather than the technology in isolation.
Container management expertise is scarce on the plant floor, and hiring for it at every site is not realistic.
The two disciplines carry different tooling, different change control and different definitions of risk, which makes joint ownership hard.
Industry-specific hardware carries constraints that general-purpose container tooling does not accommodate.
Every device added to the estate widens the attack surface unless deployment and update are centrally controlled.
Responsibility is split across teams and sites, so a change that is simple technically is rarely simple procedurally.
Linux-based edge devices from WAGO, container management from Portainer, and Docker as the packaging format the industrial software already uses.
Remove the technological hurdles of managing IIoT applications on industry-specific hardware, so anyone from both IT and OT can work together on the same estate.
Configure, deploy and manage IIoT software applications in a simple and intuitive user interface, without needing to learn container tooling.
Manage fleets of devices securely using automation, a broad API surface, and built-in tooling for security updates and patches.
IoT Use Case published the WAGO and Portainer solution example in both English and German.
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