EdgeGateway is the software that proxies traditional communications methods into the EdgeStack platform.
An example of EdgeGateway that we provide is for OPC/DA. This is a traditional field level communications platform. Our OPC/DA gateway requires a login that connects the software to the EdgeStack platform and then allows OPC/DA clients to access the data. The OPC/DA calls are transformed into EdgeStack's open RESTful call in order to get or set data in the field.
External integration to existing SCADA systems is essential for realizing the power of the EdgeStack platform. Traditional SCADA integration technologies to external systems are called “Gateways”. Gateways utilize the Open RESTful API to access collected data stored by EdgeServer, providing a traditional SCADA collection interface for existing SCADA applications. Currently, we provide an OPC/DA Gateway and are working on an MQTT Gateway
EdgeGateways transform existing technologies and protocols to and from the EdgeStack platform.