If instead, the op was interested in connecting up machinery/instruments that already have sensors/data but use a legacy port like RS-232, I found a company making excellent, inexpensive ($30usd) RS-232 to ethernet adapters. They are small, come in a variety of versions, and come with software that allows you to configure the protocols and interface to capture the data. I only experimented with the unit I acquired but it worked flawlessly.
https://www.pusr.com/products/1-port-rs232-to-ethernet-converters-usr-tcp232 -302.html Mike From: Philipp Zehnder <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 1:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Connect old machine tools to StreamPipes Hi Fei, this sounds like a very interesting project. I mostly use data produced directly by the machine so unfortunately I don't have quite as much experience in the field of sensors. However, I performed some experimental set ups were I added the following sensors: * Bosch XDK * NETIO Power Sensors [1] For NETIO we have a direct integration into StreamPipes. I also know some people who added sensors via a Arduino board to collect data, but I am not sure if this is suitable for a manufacturing environment. It would be very cool if we could suggest a set of sensors on the StreamPipes Homepage as a plug-and-play retrofit solution. If you have any experience or suggestions you can write them here so we can add them. Philipp [1] https://www.netio-products.com/ On 15. Sep 2021, at 06:07, Fei Xu <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hello everyone, I'm working on a pilot project connecting manufacturing equipment (likely older machines) up to StreamPipes for the eventual goal of collecting sensor data and calculating efficiency stats (OEE, downtime, etc). How have people approached connecting non-networked machines to StreamPipes? Is there any particular hardware you would recommend that you've had a good experience with? Would anybody be willing to share an example of a project they've done end-to-end connecting older equipment to [some hardware] and then to StreamPipes? Thanks, Fei
