Elasticsearch UG Meetup Q4 2019

All,

apologies for the short notice, this somehow got lost in my todo list.

Please be aware that I moved this meetup to Tuesday following the original data, as traditionally Fridays have not been good days for meetups. This was an oversight on my part, when originally creating the events and will not happen again going forward!

I am very pleased to announce our speaker for the next Elasticsearch UG meetup in Frankfurt!

Stefan Herrmann will talk to us about integrating the Elastic stack with PLC4X to gather and visualize IIoT data.

Industrial IoT (IIoT) as a buzzword gained traction within recent years. However, implementing common use cases like real-time monitoring of PLCs may involve a huge amount of money and effort. For example, current approaches implementing such a monitoring solution require complex architectures. Examples and show-cases for real-time monitoring often use OPC-UA as an interface to connect to the PLCs. However, this leaves out a huge number of older PLCs in factories all over the world with no support for OPC-UA.
We are presenting an approach involving less effort and way less money needed to implement near-real-time IIoT monitoring. This is realized by utilizing Apache PLC4X and the ELK Stack. Apache PLC4X is integrated into Logstash as a Logstash plugin. This is used to connect to the PLCs and transfer the incoming data into ElasticSearch. Kibana serves as the data analysis and monitoring user interface.

Best regards,
Sönke