ICONICS Introduces Its IoT Gateway Suite with Microsoft Azure

ICONICS is a managed Microsoft Gold Partner and winner of the Microsoft Public Sector CityNext Partner of the Year award. The company provides advanced, Web-enabled and OPC UA certified HMI/SCADA, analytics and mobile software solutions for any manufacturing, energy, industrial or building automation application. ICONICS announces its new IoT Gateway Suite and enhanced integration with the next generation of Microsoft Azure cloud platform and services at Hannover Messe 2016,in Hannover, Germany. ICONICS will exhibit in the Microsoft Pavilion (Hall 7, Booth C40) at the show.

ICONICS IoT Gateway Suite communicates with Azure applications using the most popular transport protocols. Once the IoT Gateway is online, it connects to Microsoft Azure IoT Hub so that it can authenticate, transmit and receive data. Acting as a secure message broker, the Microsoft Azure IoT Hub allows for remote device management, provisioning and configuration.

“ICONICS is proud to demonstrate its Microsoft Azure-based IoT solutions highlighting its commitment to Industrie 4.0 alongside Microsoft at Hannover Messe 2016,” said Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. “Such cloud-enabling technologies greatly simplify the deployment of IoT applications that will scale and be future-proof.”

“ICONICS is an excellent Microsoft Independent Software Vendor (ISV) IoT Solution Partner,” said Caglayan Arkan, ‎GM, WW Manufacturing & Resources at Microsoft. “And, as such, provides customers with solutions that utilize the power of the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite for energy management, smart buildings and manufacturing.”

The IoT Gateway Software Suite is ICONICS’ launch pad for a new software architecture for its visualization, analytics and mobile solutions based on Microsoft Azure Service Fabric and microservices. With Service Fabric, ICONICS is utilizing Azure as a true platform as a service (PaaS) to deploy and scale applications for the new era of Industrie 4.0 and IoT deployments. This meets the need for service-based software offerings and value-added services that customers worldwide are demanding.

The real power of IoT gateways is in the implementation of low-cost hardware devices that can be placed in remote locations or just about anywhere there is information to be sent to Azure. Configuration of the ICONICS IoT Gateway Software Suite includes onboard energy management, building and industrial protocols, such as BACnet, OPC UA, Modbus, SNMP and Web services. This makes the ICONICS IoT Gateway Software Suite the ideal choice for any application.