NAONWORKS
Fast and easy integration of OPC UA client/server and publisher/subscriber communication into unidirectional gateway, meeting highest security requirements
Background
- NAONWORKS provides security solutions for customers’ safe network operations.
- Solutions aim to use various technologies in open systems for convergence industries.
- Focus is on industrial protocols, big data, deep packet inspection and technologies for behavior and status analysis.
Business need
- A power plant faced critical need for a reliable gateway to facilitate data acquisition between a real-time database (RTDB) and nine different distributed control systems (DCS).
- The typical client applications in which machine data is used include asset management systems, monitoring dashboards and monitoring systems.
- Existing gateway did not have Common Criteria (CC) certificate, a crucial element for safeguarding critical infrastructures.
Technical Requirements
- The nine DCSs were from Siemens, ABB and GE.
- The selected CEREBRO-DD gateway from NAONWORKS had to connect all nine systems.
- The gateway had to support OPC UA and OPC DA for communication with clients.
- Data communication had to be stable and robust.
- NAONWORKS used Softing's OPC UA SDKs to develop the new CEREBRO-DD gateway.
- The new gateway supports various industrial protocols such as OPC UA, OPC DA, ODBC, MQTT, Modbus RTU/TCP, Siemens S7, Mitsubishi, LS Electric, RTSP, etc.
- Individualized access control and configuration rights, user authentication and data encryption are ensured.
- Physical separation between office and production networks is seamlessly integrated.
- Physical uni-direction through hardware-based network separation.
- Zero risk communication through non-routable unidirectional protocol.
- Enhanced security ensured by encryption module.
- Short time-to-market guaranteed with Softing's OPC UA SDKs.
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