Results, Insights and Best Practices from IIC Testbeds: Time-Sensitive Networking Testbed
10. CURRENT ACTIVITY
The TSN Testbed team has a few use cases in action right now. One use case currently ramping up involves a major robot supplier and a major automation control supplier who seek to use the TSN technology to perform intercommunication between their devices and systems. They will coordinate and control PLCs and the monitoring of the sensor data between robots and PLCs. This use case consists of a combination of receiving highly time-sensitive, synchronized information from sensors and passing control or actuation commands back into that environment to other types of devices( a robot, as example). Previously, these companies would have had to perform this intercommunication between devices and systems with a separate, proprietary networking technology – either not Ethernet or heavily modified Ethernet – that would leave these applications and systems, from an IoT-network perspective, relatively in the dark. The TSN Testbed will be running these with other types of automation and control applications, showing the convergence and eventually showing the ability to run IoT applications in Year Two.
A good example of an established IIC testbed considering the adoption of TSN capabilities within the end-devices and the network is the Communications and Control for Microgrid Applications Testbed. There are some very strong business cases to see the use and adoption of TSN technology in smart grid as well as manufacturing. That testbed will likely take a look at the TSN Testbed soon.
For 2017, the TSN Testbed team has taken an action item to establish a testbed in Europe. Four or five organizations have expressed interest in hosting the TSN Testbed in various locations. By the middle of 2017, the team hopes to have a second instance of the TSN Testbed running in Europe.
For more on the TSN Testbed, please visit the overview and related links found on the TSN Testbed webpage.
11. TESTBED PARTICIPANTS
� Belden / Hirschmann � Bosch Rexroth � B & R Industrial Automation � Cisco � Innovasic � Intel � KUKA � National Instruments � Schneider Electric � SICK AG � TTTech
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