Check out the latest release of the PROFINET Community Stack here. Now with a minimal IO Device example application designed for Raspberry Pi, plus stack improvements. Feedback welcome!

Seamless connection to the cloud provides for the fast provision of IO-Link data for IIoT applications. This is based on the IO-Link master, which includes a JSON over REST or MQTT interface.

There are now two comprehensive, practice-oriented guidelines on the open and interoperable omlox location-tracking standard. They help enable the non-proprietary integration of different locating technologies for seamless positioning in production and logistics.

With the mioty alliance and the IO-Link Community (PI) cooperation agreement in place, the goal of this partnership is to enable the integration of mioty devices using the same mechanisms as those used for IO-Link devices. The advantage here is that users won’t need any new tools for mioty.