IIoT
Cloud-based automation, controls, HMI, historian and Data Analytics are more popular and one of the accelerating technologies product/apps is measuring and reporting production status, alarms and efficiency.
To implement a cloud based systems, an IoT gateway or field agent is residing at the production sites behind a firewall streaming production tags/data values to the apps hosted in the cloud making it possible for clients to log-in to the cloud based applications as a thin clients.