Smart Gateways and IoT: A New Breakthrough Path for Traditional Printing

Printing technology continues to evolve alongside advances in science and technology. Digital printing’s flexibility, efficiency and cost-saving strengths are placing clear pressure on conventional printing, while the competition between new and established methods remains a major industry focus. For printing businesses, following market trends and adapting proactively is essential to achieving transformation and breakthrough.

Challenges facing traditional printing

1. Production workflows are rigid, and operations rely heavily on specific environmental and equipment conditions.
2. Air and water pollution are generated during production.
3. Production cycles are lengthy, while labor and material costs keep climbing.

The value of IoT-enabled printing

Patented fast and stable collection algorithms support stable, reliable and secure data acquisition, and allow a single gateway to collect data from multiple machines.

Online and offline status reporting is supported.

Device status reporting and a gateway heartbeat mechanism are available.

Functions include data filtering, grouped collection, alarm calculation and time-series error correction.

Data from multiple protocols can be standardized, and thing models can be built to enable standardized applications.

The system can connect to several data centers at once, whether they are of the same type or different types.

(Wutongbolian Cloud, Alibaba Cloud)

Data penetration is supported, and data transparent transmission applications can be achieved together with the device express line.

With the device maintenance express line, on-site equipment can be remotely diagnosed, debugged and upgraded.

Different protocols can be converted into one unified protocol, for example to

Modbus TCP and others.

Serial port data can be forwarded to another serial port, enabling data acquisition in a multi-master, single-slave architecture.

Through virtual sub-devices, a physical master device can be split into several virtual sub-devices according to business requirements.

Breakpoint resume is supported, along with storage media memory.

Scheduled data reporting, immediate read, immediate write, batch read and batch write are among the supported control options.

Online status and heartbeat reporting for devices and gateways allow link status monitoring.

Various data types can be processed; after protocol data models are standardized, they are reported to the cloud platform, with customized reporting formats supported.

——Source: China Packaging Network (pack.cn); original link: http://news.pack.cn/show-379048.html