Advantech’s EdgeHub platform is presented as a central control plane for remote operation of industrial I/O, gateways and embedded PCs, giving OT teams a single interface for onboarding, monitoring and configuring distributed assets. It ties together ADAM remote I/O, WISE wireless modules, protocol gateways and IPCs so you can manage both edge connectivity and data flows without custom tooling, from device registration through to tag mapping and alarm handling. https://wise-iot.advantech.com/en-int/marketplace/product/advantech.edgehub
In the demo they focus on how a tenant encapsulates a licensed quota of devices and tags, with clear states such as construction versus operation, plus online and offline status for each node. A WISE-4012E/412E class Wi-Fi Modbus TCP I/O module is used as an example, exposing analog inputs, digital inputs and relay outputs that are all surfaced into EdgeHub’s dashboard so you can see live process values and discrete states in real time, instead of logging into each module individually. The result is a lightweight SCADA-style view built directly on top of wireless field I/O and edge aggregation, ready to be integrated into higher-level cloud analytics or MES platforms
In this conversation from SPS 2025 in Nuremberg, the team shows how EdgeLink-based gateways extend this model by bridging industrial controllers and fieldbuses into the same management and telemetry fabric. An ARM-based gateway and an Intel Atom x6413E-powered UNO-127 DIN-rail IPC can both run the EdgeLink runtime, acting as protocol converters that collect data from Siemens, Mitsubishi or Rockwell PLCs via Modbus and expose it upstream as OPC UA servers, Modbus servers or MQTT publishers to cloud backends or SCADA systems. LoRaWAN gateways such as the WISE-6610 can simultaneously ingest data from smart sensors like the WISE-2410 vibration node, enabling condition monitoring and predictive maintenance across widely distributed equipment. This turns EdgeHub into a focal point for mixed-protocol industrial monitoring
Beyond device onboarding and data routing, the EdgeHub UI exposes an App Hub repository and OTA pipeline so system integrators can push containerised applications, custom runtimes or configuration bundles to gateways and IPCs at scale. Apps are uploaded once into the repository and then dispatched to selected nodes, together with firmware upgrades, Windows updates or configuration files, all controlled via over-the-air workflows instead of manual site visits. This aligns with WISE-Edge365 and EdgeSync concepts, where device management, software lifecycle and telemetry are treated as one continuous edge operations process rather than separate projects
Security and lifecycle governance also feature prominently, with support for X.509 certificate-based authentication, TLS-encrypted channels and allowlisting to protect remote I/O and gateways from unauthorised access while still enabling cross-site management from a central console. For enterprises rolling out hundreds or thousands of ADAM and WISE modules, LoRaWAN sensors and EdgeLink gateways, the combination of multi-tenant licensing, protocol abstraction and secure OTA distribution makes EdgeHub a pragmatic tool for unifying OT device fleets into a coherent edge-to-cloud architecture
