The deviceWISE SmartIO Signal Interface Unit product offerings provide a unique extension to the deviceWISE product family.
These signal interface units allow customers to support the digital integration of older hardware and components such as fixed and hard automation machinery and systems that were never equipped with computerized controls that exposed interface protocols. By using basic sensor and actuator technology at the edge, the signal interface units allow customer to easily integrate this equipment and leave no machine behind in the efforts to embrace an end-to-end digital transformation.
Getting Signals from Machine Tools and Equipment
The deviceWISE SmartIO Signal Interface Unit can be used to support the instrumentation of older machine tools and hard automation equipment where there is no integrated controller that supports an external protocol interface. Pushbuttons, limit switches, dry contact relays, current sensors, and position sensors can be added to machine tools and equipment of all kinds to provide operational cycle counts and runtime data in support of integrated manufacturing requirements.
Getting Signals from Meters and Transducers
The deviceWISE SmartIO Signal Interface Unit can be used to support the instrumentation of flow meters, tachometers, and standard periodic pulse sensors that are commonly used in manufacturing and industrial applications. The hardware counters integrated into the interface unit can sense part counts as items break a signal beam on a conveyor line, as well as sense mutiple pulses per second if needed in support of fluid and air flow applications or applications regarding rotating shafts and tables. In addition, the SmartIO Signal Interface Unit has direct connection support to 4 – 20 mA based sensors and transducers commonly used in process control and discrete manufacturing applications.
Sending Signals to Equipment and Components
The deviceWISE SmartIO Signal Interface Unit can be used to support the control of motors, pumps, blowers, gates, lifts, and diverters where there is no integrated controller that supports an external protocol interface. The digital outputs of the interface unit can be used to energize relays and motor starters to perform controlled actuation of operational components.