We are having 100 machines in each department. Totally 4 department.
and 4 plants.
Each machine has OPCUA capability, so we can collect the machine data via ignition.
My query here is, one Ignition Edge is enough for all 100 machine data collection?
We will collect 15 tag per machine.
If one ignition edge is enough, shall we need one MQTT transmission module license for each ignition edge to transfer the data to our central ignition gateway, which means 4 ignition edge for our one plant and each need one transmission_module to send the data to MQTT broker in central running ignition to process the collected data.
Is our understanding correct. Kindly give your inputs.
Ignition Edge IIoT includes transmission.
You will probably have to put Ignition Edge on somewhat beefy hardware to support that many connections, but there's no license limit (now-a-days) that would prevent setting it up.
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Thank you for your reply.
Got it. How was transfer speed capable of that edge node if 100 machine data is being collected.
Not able to get what hardware you are mean?
The hardware you install Edge itself on. It is often sold with or installed on small, low-power systems for installation alongside PLCs in control panels. Such PCs don't have a lot of compute power/RAM for the heavy load you seem to be contemplating.
(FWIW, I wouldn't use Edge in the plant for such a large system. I recommend standard Ignition in a redundant pair in each plant.)
Can I use one ignition Edge license for many edge device hardware?
Else need to buy every single ignition edge module running in each hardware?
You can, but as @pturmel is saying you'll need to make sure the PC has enough CPU and RAM to be able to handle that many connections.
The limit will be the PC hardware , not Ignition.
The recommendation though is to split them up at least into groups so that if one reboots or dies only part of your plant isn't communicating rather than everything. In an ideal world you would buy 1 edge license per cell/system.
Thank you for your info.