The Power Line Booster (PLB) system is a communication system for data transmission on conductive media. The system provides PROFINET/Ethernet-based communication connections between stationary plant controllers and mobile plant units. 

The media can be sliding contact systems (graphite/copper on copper) such as in electric overhead conveyors, skillet conveyors, storage and retrieval systems or crane systems.
Ring sliders are also supported as they are used in rotary machines (amusement rides, stranding machines).

The PLB ensures that all mobile devices can receive or send prioritized PROFINET IO data within a defined time. The PLB can be used as successor system to the Power Rail Booster. The PLB is already being used in many automotive applications, such as in the Siemens conveyor technology for VW CRAFTER in Poland. 

The SIMATIC ET 200SP CM CAN communication module is designed to connect an ET 200SP system to the CAN or CANopen fieldbus and enables the data exchange. This gives the option of communicating with up to 60 CAN nodes.

You can select from three operating modes: CANtransparent 2.0A/B, CANopen Manager or CANopen Slave according to CiA 301 & 302. In CANopen mode, external device description files (.eds files) can be imported and exported. The data transmission is either cyclical or acyclical. 

Configuration and engineering entirely with TIA Portal via HSP (Hardware Support Package) as of TIA Portal V15.1, no additional tool required.

Quick and efficient data processing and analysis through two powerful Intel Xeon E5 CPUs with up to 2 TB RAM and optimal connection to the extension cards. 

 Image recognition and quality assurance in real time with up to two NVIDIA Quadro P5000 GPUs, for example optical inspection of: Welding seams, bottling plants and 3D printing manufacturing.

As industrial server and for visualization solutions with optimal data security thanks to RAID Controller and up to 8x 2.5" SSDs.  

Field devices with MQTT, MODBUS/TCP or OPC UA interfaces as the data supplier can be connected to the IOT Gateway MQTT.

Cloud interface is MQTT. Message Queuing Telemetry Transport is an open message protocol for machine-to-machine communication.

The MQTT is a client server protocol. A MQTT server can manage the complete data status of its communication partners and can therefore be used as a status database. After establishing a connection, clients send the server messages with a topic that categorizes the message hierarchically, for example Hall1/Soldering_Bath/Temperature or Vehicle/Wheel/3/Air_Pressure.