SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Apr. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/
-- ioTium, the first commercially deployed secure Edge-Cloud
infrastructure company for the Industrial Internet of Things
(IIoT), today announced they have joined the OPC Foundation, the
world's leading community for industrial interoperability solutions
developing and maintaining OPC specifications that deliver secure
reliable interoperability. As a corporate member, ioTium's
Edge-Cloud offerings is now available to any enterprise customers
using OPC in their environment. ioTium also participates with other
OPC Foundation members in their work to provide the best and most
widely used connectivity standards available.
"One of the most important factors for the success of IIoT is
the secure data and information exchange between devices and
services," said Thomas J. Burke,
president of the OPC Foundation. "The OPC Foundation is working
with companies like IoTium to accelerate the deployment of OPC UA
framework so as to have complete information integration addressing
the complex requirement of IIoT."
More than 590 industry vendors and software developers
contribute to developing the series of specifications for the OPC
standard. OPC, the interoperability standard for the secure and
reliable information exchange in industrial automation and the
enterprise, ensures the seamless flow of information needed among
multi-vendors and platforms.
"Interoperability is critical to the success of IIoT" said
Ron Victor, founder and CEO of
ioTium. "We have developed a solution that would ensure rapid
scalable deployment of IIoT using OPC; any machine, using any
protocol, can instantly, seamlessly and securely be connected to
any application residing in any cloud or data center through any
network infrastructure and operator, while eliminating all
deployment complexity issues and significantly minimizing network
security risks. We are excited to be part of the OPC
Foundation."
Becoming a corporate member brings iotium's work in IIoT
together with the OPC Foundations work developing and maintaining
the OPC UA to empower the rapid deployment of the specifications to
industrial enterprises. ioTium enables organizations to securely
deploy and manage a wide range of services for diverse industrial
environments with the single click of a mouse. The OPC UA is
designed for the transport of data and information from first-tier
factory and process control devices through to the enterprise
information system.
ioTium looks forward to demonstrating what's new and upcoming in
technology for Industrial Enterprise to Significantly Simplify and
Secure Transport of their OPC Data to the cloud as part of the OPC
Pavilion at Hannover Messe in Hall 9 A11.
The Hannover Messe will be held April 23-27 in Hannover.
About iotium
ioTium is the first commercially deployed secure Edge-Cloud
infrastructure company for the IIoT. Headquartered in Silicon
Valley and funded by GE Ventures, March Capital, Juniper Ventures
and the Fabric, ioTium is the company of choice for Fortune 500
organizations looking to enable secure, scalable IIoT deployment
today. ioTium bridges the legacy brown-field world with the new
cloud-enabled world. The company's Edge-Cloud offerings have been
deployed in dozens of leading organizations in the building
automation, oil and gas, power and utilities, manufacturing, and
healthcare verticals as well as in smart cities. ioTium solutions
include the groundbreaking ioTium OT-Net; ioTium OT-Access; and the
ioTium OT-Edge edge-cloud infrastructure solution. The company's
solutions ensure that any machine, using any protocol, can be
instantly, seamlessly and securely connected to any application
residing in any cloud or data center through any network
infrastructure and operator; while eliminating deployment
complexity issues and minimizing network security risks. For more
information, visit: http://www.iotium.io.
About OPC Foundation
Since 1996, the OPC Foundation has facilitated the development and
adoption of the OPC information exchange standards. As both
advocate and custodian of these specifications, the Foundation™s
mission is to help industry vendors, end-users, and software
developers maintain interoperability in their manufacturing and
automation assets.
The OPC Foundation provides the best specifications, technology,
process and certification to achieve multivendor, multiplatform,
secure, reliable interoperability for moving data and information
from the embedded world to the enterprise cloud. The organization
serves over 590 members worldwide in the Industrial Automation, IT,
IoT, IIoT, M2M, Industrie 4.0, Building Automation, machine tools,
pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and Smart Energy sectors.
About OPC UA
OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is a platform and vendor
independent communication technology for a secure and reliable data
and information exchange over the different levels of the
automation pyramid. In addition, the information models of the OPC
UA standard provide the foundation for a semantic
interoperability.
SOURCE IOTIUM