Method and arrangement for controlling the data exchange of an industrial edge device

Abstract

A method and edge device for controlling data exchange of an industrial edge device with an industrial automation arrangement and a data cloud, wherein the edge device includes a first communication connection to the industrial automation arrangement and a second communication connection to a network of the data cloud, where the edge device includes applications exchanging data, and where the edge device includes a control device to control the data to be exchanged, wherein whether data exchange of an application is controlled via the first communication connection and the data exchange is implemented directly via the second communication connection or vice versa is defined for each application, where a data flow control device ensures simultaneous direct data exchange by an application via both communication connections does not occur, such that rigorous checking of applications or containers within the applications with respect to data security is not required.

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Technical field[0001]The present invention relates to a method for monitoring industrial edge devices and industrial automation devices, and data exchange with data clouds, further involves an industrial edge device having data for monitoring edge devices and industrial automation devices and data clouds. Exchange device.Background technique[0002]Industrial automation devices, such as production equipment or process technology devices for discrete goods, typically consist of components controlled by a large number of computer, such as Programmable Logic Controller, and other devices, such as HMI (Man Up) devices. Wait. For various reasons, those connected to each other have traditionally been separated from public networks, especially the Internet, for example, to avoid attacks of production device data.[0003]However, more and more demand is that the active components operated by the industrial automation device in the data of the "island operation" mode can be exchanged with the pu...

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In this case, however, the application's access to the automation network must be blocked in order to prevent unwanted direct connections between the public network and the private network, i.e. between the cloud and the automation network

[0010] However, taken together, these measures make it difficult to achieve data security in applications that communicate with both the cloud and the automation network

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