ei³ launches powerful, new edge device – Amphion S14

Deliver more value to your customers with this high-performing, secure, plug-and-play IoT edge device. The Amphion S14 is engineered to exceed the most demanding security requirements combining ease of configuration for remotely accessing your machines. Based on industry standard security protocols, the edge device creates a secure network from your machine to our cloud infrastructure which hosts the ei³ applications and data historian, or the data repository of your choice via our Enterprise Mirror. The latest model Amphion S14 also incorporates additional secure execution power for edge computing, such as on-device analytics and high-frequency data aggregation, making it the perfect secure platform for powerful fog computing.

 

The Amphion is built to be installed inside a machine control panel on the factory floor. It requires a standard Ethernet-based connection to the Internet to get connected. To the machine, the Amphion supports all of the legacy and modern field bus protocols and PLCs. The configuration and management infrastructure is secure and client-managed through our web infrastructure.

 

The Amphion creates an externally managed secure network that gives you highest level of security paired with ease of configuration and cost-effective full scalability: small sites or individual machines can connect with a single piece “black” box amphion, whereas larger installations or plants connect through individual routers and a single plant access point. Using this unique network design ei³ supports scalability from one machine to many hundreds with full security while only requiring the user to configure, manage, and audit a single outgoing data connection.