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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