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Guidance for Integrating an Industrial Data Fabric with Belden CloudRail on AWS

Overview

This Guidance illustrates how to integrate Belden CloudRail with AWS IoT SiteWise Edge. CloudRail supports over 250 industrial protocols, including 12,000 IO-link sensors and Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA), enabling seamless integration across diverse systems. By deploying CloudRail gateways, you can pre-process data locally, add edge sensors, and consolidate data streams for cloud-based visualization and analysis. This streamlined approach enhances operational visibility, reduces cloud costs, and enables data-driven decisions across facilities.

How it works

These technical details feature an architecture diagram to illustrate how to effectively use this solution. The architecture diagram shows the key components and their interactions, providing an overview of the architecture's structure and functionality step-by-step.

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AWS IoT SiteWise enables monitoring data collection, processing, and storage at the edge and cloud through Amazon CloudWatch logs and metrics and AWS CloudTrail. AWS IoT SiteWise offers bulk operations for changing information models at scale to adapt to evolving plant operations. Using AWS IoT SiteWise, you can track data collection, processing, and storage through CloudWatch logs and metrics.

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AWS IoT SiteWise helps ensure that data is encrypted at rest. You can protect data in transit using TLS or at rest using client-side encryption. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies follow the principle of least privilege. AWS IoT SiteWise Edge processing exposes TLS-encrypted APIs accessible over local networks, using server certificates and access control passwords stored on disk with file-system encryption. By leveraging these security measures, you can encrypt data at rest using AWS IoT SiteWise, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and secure edge communications.

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AWS IoT SiteWise has throttling limits for cloud data ingress and egress, helping to ensure service availability. You can back up asset metadata and telemetry data using APIs and the Amazon S3-based cold storage tier. These fully-managed services operate across multiple Availability Zones within highly redundant global infrastructure of AWS.

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AWS IoT SiteWise provides flexible telemetry data ingestion options for real-time and batch processing, with hot, warm, and cold storage tiers for optimizing performance and cost. AWS IoT SiteWise Edge allows local data storage and processing for low-latency edge application access. These fully-managed services automatically scale up or down for optimal performance without over- or under-provisioning. By using the ingestion approaches, storage tiers, and edge capabilities of AWS IoT SiteWise, you can optimize performance for your industrial assets based on real-time needs, analytics requirements, and cost considerations.

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AWS IoT SiteWise offers cost-optimized ingestion methods and storage tiers (hot, warm, cold) for optimizing costs based on data access patterns. AWS IoT SiteWise Edge collects, stores, and processes data locally, reducing constant cloud data transfer needs.

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AWS IoT SiteWise Edge filters incoming data, while retention period settings remove older data from hot and warm tiers when no longer needed. These fully-managed AWS services support sustainability of your workloads by avoiding over-provisioning, reducing on-premises infrastructure needs, and leveraging energy-efficient AWS data centers. By filtering data at the edge and cloud, you minimize the storage and processing resources required, effectively reducing your workload's environmental impact.

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