Choosing an Industrial Edge Gateway for MQTT and Sparkplug Industrial data architectures are moving away from repeated point-to-point polling by every consuming system and toward brokered, event-driven distribution. Field protocols such as Modbus may still be polled locally at the…
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Soft PLCs and OpenPLC: The Industrial PC Underneath Industrial control is becoming more software-defined. Traditional PLCs remain essential, but their runtime, engineering environment, and hardware are usually delivered as one vendor-managed system. A soft PLC, or PC-based PLC, separates those…
Discover how modern AI data centers use a three-layer Ignition SCADA gateway architecture to monitor power, cooling, and critical infrastructure. Learn where industrial edge gateways fit, why fanless automation PCs matter, and how NODKA supports reliable industrial monitoring deployments.
At Automate 2026, NODKA BoothPilot demonstrates Physical AI at the edge by running five local AI models on the AP-6121 Embodied AI Robot Controller with Intel Core Ultra Series 3, OpenVINO, ROS 2, and Intel Robotics AI Suite.
Physical AI at the Edge: The Intel Robotics AI Suite on Core Ultra Series 3 Physical AI at the edge is moving artificial intelligence from screens and cloud services into machines that can sense, reason, and act in the real…
Optimizing Local LLMs for Real-Time Machine Vision on Edge AI Platforms AI-powered machine vision is moving beyond detection, classification, OCR, barcode reading, and defect inspection. The next step is adding local LLM intelligence that can help interpret inspection results, support…
Step-by-Step Guide: Connecting a NODKA iPAC to Ignition Perspective via OPC UA A complete SCADA deployment is more than just installing software. It involves the chain of components that lets a tag value travel from a physical input on the…
Ignition is software-centric and hardware-agnostic — but the platform choice still influences whether a SCADA system is reliable years into its lifecycle. This article shows how NODKA's IPC portfolio can be applied to the roles in a modern Ignition 8.3…
Not every AI-powered machine vision system needs a discrete GPU at every node. This article explains where discrete GPU-class acceleration still makes sense, where IPC-based vision nodes are often more practical, and how scale changes the hardware decision across a…
How Local VLMs Are Reshaping AI-Powered Machine Vision on Industrial PCs Article Key Points: Traditional machine vision still handles core inspection tasks best. Local VLMs add contextual interpretation to machine vision workflows. Edge deployment on industrial PCs makes local VLM…