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- Page 1 User Manual dataFEED Gateway (edgeGate, uaGate SI, uaGate MB and uaGate 840D) Version: EN_171_190601 © 2013 - 2019 Softing Industrial Automation GmbH...
- Page 2 We reserve the right to make any alterations or improvements to these instructions without prior notice. The actual design of products may deviate from the information contained in the instructions if technical alterations and product improvements so require. Softing Industrial Automation GmbH Richard-Reitzner-Allee 6 85540 Haar / Germany https://data-intelligence.softing.com...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
5.2 PLC Connection ....................... 25 5.2.1 ......................26 Siemens S7 Settings 5.2.1.1 Symbol Import ......................27 5.2.2 ......................28 Siemens S7-2 Settings 5.2.2.1 Filtering the Address Space of a Siemens PLC with Optimized Blocks ......................28 © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... - Page 4 6.5 User Password ....................... 38 6.6 micro SD Card ....................... 38 6.7 Support ....................... 39 Chapter 7 LED Status Indicators ....................... 40 Chapter 8 Technical Data ....................... 41 Chapter 9 Declarations of Conformity ....................... 42 © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH...
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Page 5: Chapter 1 Introduction
ERP, MES or SCADA. The MQTT Publisher functionality allows integrating controller data into IoT Cloud applications. Softing offers a variety of stand-alone gateway solutions. For more details see https://data-intelligence.softing.com/products/iot-gateways/. -
Page 6: Safety Precautions
Softing likes to encourage you to provide feedback and comments to help us improve the documentation. Please send your comments to the e-mail address info.idi@softing.com. If you have a PDF copy of this document available, please add your comments and suggestions to the PDF file using the editing tool in Adobe Reader and send it to Softing. -
Page 7: Chapter 2 Setting Up The Device
Dismounting Slide a screwdriver diagonally under the housing into the locking bar. Lever the screwdriver upwards, pull the locking bar downwards - without tilting the screwdriver - and move the gateway upwards off the rail. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 8: Connecting The Power Supply
Description Redundant positive supply voltage Positive supply voltage Functional Earth Ground CAUTION The Functional Earth (FE) connection of the device has to be connected at low inductance with the Protective Earth (PE) of the system. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 9: Configuration And Login
In addition, HTTPs uses a certificate to identify the server. At Softing, we use the OPC UA Server certificate that has been generated before the last reboot. -
Page 10: Inserting A Micro Sd Card
Configuration and Login Start Information / Gateway Status / Hardware Status. The page will show you if the micro SD card is recognized in the file system and how much of the storage memory is available. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 11: Connecting To The Network
If there is only one (logical) network, than it is recommended to connect only the IT Ethernet interface with this network. In this case the Ethernet interface of the machine side should be disabled by assigning the IP address 0.0.0.0 and the subnetmask 0.0.0.0 to it (see Machine Network © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 12: Powering Up The Device
Re-connect it to the power supply and hold down the reset button until the LEDs SYS, RUN and ERR light up red for about one second. Hint To prevent the device from accidental configuration reset, the reset button is only active for a short period during reboot. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 13: Chapter 3 Information
MQTT connection status and additional information regarding the connection, if available. 3.2 Help & Support The Help & Support view provides the following information: Link to the dataFEED Gateway documentation Support e-mail address Softing contact information © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 14: Version
Order Number 3.4 Licence Agreements The License Agreement view provides links to List of public domain software and their license information Package copyright information A detailed list of used licenses can be found at http://opensource.softing.com/IA/dataFEEDUAGateway/V1/. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 15: Chapter 4 It Settings
Click at this link. Your settings will be applied. Depending on the number of modified settings this process may take some time before being completed. A message in the upper window part will inform you about the successful modification(s). © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 16: Opc Ua Server
The certificate can be downloaded from the device in PEM or DER format using the OPC-UA-certificate.pem respectively OPC-UA-certificate.der buttons. Note The certificate generated here is also valid for the web server. The web server will use the newly generated certificate after the next reboot. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 17: Opc Ua Security
Each OPC UA Client may access data of the OPC UA Server. User Name Policy OPC UA Clients that are authenticated by a valid user name and password may access data of the OPC UA Server. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 18: Manage Client Certificates
Gateway as follows: Upload the DER format certificate into the New certificates folder (see above). Select the uploaded certificate and click the Move to certificate authority (CA) ( ) button to move it to the CA folder. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 19: Mqtt Broker Configuration
If user name and password authentication is selected the user name and password have to be defined in the appropriate input fields. If necessary, define the corresponding certificate files for this connection at MQTT Client Certificate © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 20: Mqtt Topic Settings
An MQTT message is repeated in the next TCP connection, if the delivery of the message in the current TCP connection fails. Level 2 The MQTT protocol uses the confirmation of confirmations to ensure that a message is delivered exactly once. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... - Page 21 Click at this link. Your settings will be applied. Depending on the number of modified settings this process may take some time before being completed. A message in the upper window part will inform you about the successful modification(s). © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH...
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Page 22: Mqtt Topic Selection
Click at this link. Your settings will be applied. Depending on the number of modified settings this process may take some time before being completed. A message in the upper window part will inform you about the successful modification(s). © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 23: Mqtt Security Settings
Move to trusted folder ( ) button. Only one trusted certificate is allowed to be stored in the Trusted Certificates folder. Note Check the certificate's fingerprint to make sure you declare the correct certificate trusted. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 24: Mqtt Client Certificate
Click at this link. Your settings will be applied. Depending on the number of modified settings this process may take some time before being completed. A message in the upper window part will inform you about the successful modification(s). © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 25: Mqtt Last Will Settings
The given websites provide examples how to configure the dataFEED Gateway to use it with the MQTT Broker of a specific cloud provider. IBM Watson / Bluemix Link: https://developer.ibm.com/recipes/tutorials/send-plc-data-via-softing-datafeed-edgate-or-uagate- to-watson-iot/ Microsoft Azure IoT-Hub Link: https://github.com/SoftingIndustrial/azure-iot-device-ecosystem/blob/master/get_started/ embedded-linux-softing-uagate-c.md © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 26: Azure Iot Opc Proxy
About 30 seconds after the successful registration the iot-edge-reverse-proxy program connects to the IoT Hub. By pressing the Get Status button the current status of this program is shown: The dialog window shows whether the program is running and which connections it has established. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 27: Azure Iot Edge Opc Publisher
Use the Browse... button to select a publishednodes.json configuration file for upload. Reset Publisher settings The Reset OPC Publisher button allows to to reset the Azure Iot Edge OPC Publisher configuration. This also deletes the list of published nodes in edgeGate. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 28: Chapter 5 Machine Settings
Click at this link. Your settings will be applied. Depending on the number of modified settings this process may take some time before being completed. A message in the upper window part will inform you about the successful modification(s). © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 29: Plc Connection
Siemens S7 Symbol Import Siemens S7-2 address-space filter Modbus Symbol Import SINUMERIK 840D Symbol Import Deleting a connection To delete a PLC connection, first select the connection to be deleted and click the Delete button. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 30: Siemens S7 Settings
Click at this link. Your settings will be applied. Depending on the number of modified settings this process may take some time before being completed. A message in the upper window part will inform you about the successful modification(s). © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 31: Symbol Import
The symbolic names of the SIMATIC S7 data have to be provided in an SDFI file. You can generate the SDFI file using the Softing dataFEED Exporter tool. This tool uses STEP 7 or TIA Portal project files as input and allows you to select a S7 PLC to generate the SDFI file containings the symbol definition. -
Page 32: Siemens S7-2 Settings
If full access to the whole PLC address space should be provided, then it is recommended to delete any filter settings in advance. Saving and applying settings Click the Save button to save and apply your settings. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 33: Modbus Settings
Check box for using Modbus function code Write Single Register 06 instead of function code Write Multiple Registers 16 for writing of values Write Single Coil Check box for using Modbus function code Write Single Coil 05 instead of function code Write Multiple Coils 15 for writing of values © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 34: Symbol Import
Click the Browse... button in the Select File section. Select the symbol file to be imported. Click the Import button to load the symbol file into the dataFEED Gateway. The imported symbols will replace the already existing symbols. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 35: Modbus Item Syntax
If a Group is specified, the range of the Group number is reduced to 0 - 255. If the UnitID is missing in the item syntax, the parametrized UnitID is transferred to the PLC. Example: Id1.40001 Id2.R2 Id3.S20.30 Id1.G2.R3 UnitID + Group © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... - Page 36 This means that reading and writing of single bits is not supported. The ranges can be addresses using the above character strings or a number. For example, a discrete input can be addressed both by E and the number 1. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH...
- Page 37 (1) One for Word /Double Word access and possibly the Word Swap option (depending on the Double Word implementation of the Modbus terminal). (2) One for Byte access and the Byte Swap option. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH...
- Page 38 PLC Int: 0 to 9999 is shown as non-signed, DWord DWord: 0 to 9999999 binary-coded values. Dint Dint: 0 to 9999999 For example, the decimal value 65535 is shown as 9999. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH...
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Page 39: Sinumerik 840D Settings
If the imported symbol file also contains an alarm symbol this is overwritten by the automatically generated alarm symbol. 5.3 Symbol View This page displays either the filtered namespace of the configured PLC or the namespace of the imported symbol file(s) in a hierarchical view. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 40: Chapter 6 Service Settings
Select the Machine Settings checkbox, if the dataFEED Gateway configuration of the Machine network needs to be reset. Click the Reset configuration to default values button to reset the selected part(s) of the configuration to the firmware default values. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 41: Firmware Update
Users working as Service Engineer are also allowed to restore the symbols in the MQTT Topic Selection from IT Settings, because these symbols are derived from the Machine Settings Symbol Import. Independent on the currently logged-in user, backup always stores the complete dataFEED Gateway configuration. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 42: User Password
Click the Browse button in the SD-Card Content section to show the content of the micro SD card. Click the Remove button in the Prepare save removal of SD-Card section to unmount the file system of the micro SD card, so it can be safely removed from the dataFEED Gateway. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 43: Support
Click the Browse button in the Capture files section to access the previously recorded network capture files. The files are suitable to be viewed using the free and open-source Wireshark packet analyzer tool (see www.wireshark.org). © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 44: Led Status Indicators
If you reset the device using the reset button on the front plate or by clicking the Reboot button in Service Settings / Reset / Gateway restart in the web server interface, the LEDs are shortly switched off. © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 45: Chapter 8 Technical Data
OPC UA (Server, 20,000 items in total), MQTT (Publisher, up to 1,000 topics) Industrial network connectivity OPC UA, controllers (Siemens SIMATIC S7-300/400/1200/1500, Modbus TCP-compatible controllers, Siemens SINUMERIK 840D Solution Line) Supported development tools SIMATIC Step 7, TIA Portal, Siemens NCVar Selector © Softing Industrial Automation GmbH... -
Page 46: Declarations Of Conformity
For this device a Declaration of Conformity in compliance with the CE standard has been made. It can be requested from Softing Industrial Automation GmbH. ROHS This device is ROHS compliant. - Page 47 Softing Industrial Automation GmbH Richard-Reitzner-Allee 6 + 49 89 4 56 56-113 85540 Haar / Germany + 49 89 4 56 56-606 https://data-intelligence.softing.com info.idi@softing.com dataFEEDGateways_C_EN_171_190601, June 2019...
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