Moxa IIoT gateways are designed for long-term operation. The gateways come with a rich variety of Moxa proprietary utilities, libraries, and tools to accelerate your IIoT application development. Gateway models that use Moxa Industrial Linux (a Debian distribution) come with 10-year software life-cycle support, which provides five more years of fixes for both bugs and security vulnerabilities as compared to standard Debian OS.

With IIoT applications all the rage today, the gateways that sit between the “things” and the Internet have become extremely important. A gateway acquires data from sensors and actuators in the field and enables smooth flow of data from the edge to the cloud. To ensure the stability of the data flow, all aspects of the system, including data acquisition and transfer, message payloads, and message publishes at set intervals for cloud applications, must be properly configured.

Azure IoT Hub provides a device twin, which is a digital replica of your device. The device twin has the same characteristics as the physical device and presents device metadata along with the last reported state, including the device status and configuration. Moxa IIoT gateways integrate Azure’s device-twin to facilitate better communication and device management, enabling applications to easily interact with their digital counterpart on the Azure IoT Hub. Device twins can also be used to monitor device processes such as firmware updates.