CLOUD-BASED EMULATION AND MODELING FOR AUTOMATION SYSTEMS

摘要

A cloud-based multi-tier cyber analytics system is provided for integration of cloud-side and on-premise analytics for industrial systems. The analytics system includes an emulation runtime engine that executes a virtualized controller on a cloud platform. The runtime engine serves as a core analytics component by providing a control-level analytics engine with application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable seamless interaction of distributed simulations, cloud level services, and hardware industrial controllers. A cloud-based framework integrates soft control, hard control, and simulation with cloud-level services, and includes components that facilitate near real-time data streaming from the plant floor to the cloud platform to yield an industrial Internet of Things (IoT).