Industry 4.0
Reference Architecture
01
Operational Technology · Infrastructure · IT
Distributed data sources with different interfaces.
PASSIVE
Data Source
Read / Subscribe
Write
02
Edge Gateway
Connects to data sources, preprocesses and forwards data.
ACTIVE
Subscribe → Write
Event · Publish
Event · Subscribe
03
Message Broker · Unified Namespace
Central data hub — decouples data producers and consumers.
PASSIVE
Pub / Sub
Event · Subscribe
04
Ingestion Service
Subscribes to the broker and actively writes the values into the time-series database.
ACTIVE
Subscribe → Write
Write
05
Time-Series Database
Pure persistence layer for time-series data.
PASSIVE
Persistence
Read
06
Processing & Applications
Reads from the TSDB, runs fusion & analytics, and feeds the downstream applications.
Monitoring
Analytics
AI & ML
Digital Twins
Optimization
Automation
ACTIVE
Consume
Event · Subscribe
Event · Publish