The omlox standard is moving fast with lots of new capability and products. See omlox in action via a new Accenture demo.

With nearly double the planned attendance, the 36th annual PI Meeting was a resounding success. Our host this year, PIUK did a wonderful job hosting the group in the lovely city of Edinburgh, Scotland. The worldwide PI community came together to chart our course for the year ahead.

In May 2025, the IO-Link Community gathered in Bad Soden, Germany for this year's Members Assembly. A key event was the regular election of the Steering Committee; of which the complete list of members can be found on the brand new io-link.com website.

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!

Initial approaches to converged networks are still not available today. More realistic is a step-by-step approach by adding vertical communication to existing infrastructures. PI supports this IT/OT integration with its Companion Specification series.

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.