IOT2050: SIMATIC IOT2050, 2x Gbit Ethernet RJ45 Display Port; 2x USB2.0, SD Card slot, 24 V DC power supply

SIMATIC IOT2050 “open source” platform for industrial IoT gateway applications. The SIMATIC IOT2050 industrial IoT gateway, based on Texas Instruments ARM technology, is an open, industrial-grade platform with which customers can implement a wide range of applications in the IOT, gateway, and edge computing environment. SIMATIC IOT2050 is equipped with numerous
interfaces and is mainly distinguished by its expandability, free programming in high-level languages, and the availability of a wide range of packages in the Linux environment.

Technical Features

• Completely solid-state: born for the industrial market.
• Texas Instruments ARM AM6528 Dual Core Cortex A53 Processor.
• Buffered real-time clock (RTC) that allows data and time to be maintained even without an Internet connection.
• Fast 1 GB DDR4 RAM memory.
• External interfaces (user LED, user button, etc.)
• Wide power supply spectrum: from 12 to 24 V DC.
• Very low energy consumption and low heat dissipation.
• Developed and tested for H24 operation.
• ARDUINO slot for connecting I/O and sensors.
• Mini PCI Express slot for integrating third-party cards (Wireless, 5G, Lora, Bluetooth)
• Dual Ethernet card for operation in different separate networks.
• 2x USB for any USB 2.0 device.
• Serial interface (switchable RS-232/485/422) for connecting smart sensors.
• “Open source” system for maximum flexibility at minimum cost for any application

Operating System:

IoT is available with the full version of Debian OS, which provides very high usability comparable to that of products available for the consumer market that use standard package managers (such as apt).

Drivers and Add-ons

Numerous drivers, protocols, example applications, protocols for Big Data Cloud are available directly as Debian packages on the standard market.

Compilers:

Various high-level compilers or interpreters (C/C++, JAVA, JSON, Python, etc.) and different development environments (especially ECLIPSE) can be used.

Fields of Application:

Applications for the IoT2050 remain the same as those previously seen for the IoT2040, for example:
x Gateway between different network types
x VPN
x Data pre-processing for forwarding to the cloud or an Edge computer
x Data processing where high computing power is not required
x Small controls and HTML interfaces with Node-red