Developing IoT-enabled Distributed Real-time Control Apps with Eclipse 4diac

This is a virtual Meetup occurring at 8AM Pacific Time (11AM Eastern, 5PM Central European Time). For help with your timezone calculation, refer to this (https://time.is/compare/0800_16_Feb_2017_in_PT).

The meetup will be held on Google Hangouts and you will be able to watch the live stream directly on YouTube.

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Industry 4.0 requires more interconnected, decentralized, and autonomous control entities seamless interacting with each other and the cloud. However, current systems are either limited in their adaptability or only adaptable to new requirements with high effort. Eclipse 4diac utilizes the industrial modeling language defined in the IEC 61499 standard to provide an environment allowing to develop distributed real-time control solutions fulfilling the demands of Industry 4.0 and at the same time reducing the development effort for control engineer.

This session will give a short overview on the modeling language IEC 61499. With 4diac-ide a small control application for a machine unit is developed and distributed on two different industrial control devices (i.e., PLCs). In a second step the application is enhanced to provide data via MQTT and receive control commands via OPC UA, showing how IoT communication can seamlessly integrated with real-time control applications in the 4diac environment.

Speaker: Alois Zoitl

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Alois Zoitl is leading the competence field Industry 4.0 at the research institute fortiss. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with focus on industrial Automation from the Vienna University of Technology in 2007. His research topics include adaptive production systems, distributed control architectures, dynamic reconfiguration of control applications as well as software development and software quality assurance methods for industrial automation. Dr. Zoitl published in the mentioned area and is holding 4 patents. He is a founding member of the open source initiatives 4diac and OpENer. Furthermore, he is a member of the IEEE, the PLCopen user organization, consultant for CAN in Automation and convenor of the “IEC SC65B WG15 Function Blocks”.