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IRS Toggle navigation IRS Home Info Presentation Our solutions Applications Supported protocols Join us Contact Create Account Login Welcome to IRS! IRS is your gateway to the IoT solutions ecosystem. Join the Federation to consume and/or produce IoT experiences that can be accessed, managed and shared in a matter of seconds. Start now! Fast & easy Start from zero and have your (and others’) equipment visible and available forr remote work as cloud services in just a few minutes. No programming skills or network systems knowledge are required to apply our solutions and start using worldwide spread connected devices. Accessible & secure Make your (and others’) connected devices visible and accessible to the rest of the world (or just to some chosen users from the institutions you select) while keeping the equipment safe within your institutional or other external LANs and/or behind powerful firewalls. Modern & reliable Use cutting edge communication technologies, such as HTTP, Websockets, SSH or Modbus, for accessing your (and others’) hardware. The use of state-of-the-art protocols guarantee modern, fast and reliable communications that are universally supported in industry, smart homes and labs. Presentation Our solutions provides powerful tools to assist in the network management of connected devices. Our solutions include a variety of modules and components to make your life easier when making things accessible while keeping them completely secure: myFrontier myFrontier is a scalable server that controls the remote access to a LAN (local area network), to which any number of sets of physical equipment or plants are connected. This resources can then be used with myDiscovery and myUIs applications. myConvergence myConvergence makes any physical device or equipment, running with/under any software, convergent with ’s solutions. myGateway myGateway devices unify physical devices connected to different LANs. They allow extending and configuring ’s cloud service with devices that are physically separated and distributed in different networks, including those external to ’s myFrontier. myVirtualFrontier myVirtualFrontier publishes myGateway resources as cloud services that can then be used with myDiscovery and myUIs applications. myDiscovery myDiscovery allows users to access cloud services from their own computers with a convenient desktop application. myUIs myUserInterfaces or myUIs manage the configuration of convergent sensors, actuators and controllers (including those that have been made convergent using the myConvergence module) to be used with HTML5 web applications. myIntegrations myIntegrations easily integrates the cloud services and myUIs applications in a wide variety of web content management systems (CMS), learning management systems (LMS) or other general-purpose information management system (IMS). myPDUs myPowerDistributionUnits or myPDUs configure and control the automatic powering on and off of your devices. Applications Industry 4.0 Enhance the security and connectivity in smart factories Learn more Educational and research labs Get measurements from lab equipment and operate it through the Internet Learn more Smart homes Control your privacy while keeping your home fully connected Learn more Previous Next × Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 is the inclusion of automation and data exchange in industrial processes. It includes things like cyber-physical systems, cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT). The name represents the idea of these additions to industrial process to provoke the fourth revolution that has occurred in this context. From the first industrial revolution (mechanization through water and steam power) and the mass production and assembly lines using electricity in the second, to the third industrial revolution with the adoption of computers and automation. There are four design principles in Industry 4.0, which optimizes the computerization of Industry 3.0: Interconnection: Machines, devices, sensors, and people connecting and communicating with each other via the IoT. Information transparency: This transparency provides with vast amounts of useful information to make better decisions. Inter-connectivity allows to collect huge amounts of data from all points in an industrial process, thus identifying areas that can benefit from improvement. Technical assistance: Assistance systems supporting humans by aggregating and visualizing information comprehensively and cyber-physical systems physically supporting humans by performing tasks that are unpleasant, exhausting, or unsafe. Decentralized decisions: Cyber-physical systems making decisions on their own and conducting their tasks as autonomously as possible. According to the Global Industry 4.0 Market & Technologies 2018-2023 report by HSRC, the Industry 4.0 market is projected to reach 214 billion dollars by 2023. A recent study from Fraunhofer IAO and BITKOM forecasts a productivity increase of around 78 billion euros until 2025 only in Germany. According to the market research report "Industry 4.0 Market by Technology, Vertical, Region - Global Forecast to 2022", the Industry 4.0 market was valued at 66.67 billion dollars in 2016 and is expected to reach 152.31 billion by 2022. These are just some examples that illustrate the huge importance and gigantic economic impact Industry 4.0 is forecast to cause. However, the advent of Industry 4.0 is not free of challenges and risks, being the following some of the most cited ones: Risks to data security: The IoT services, data and people also opens up new avenues for data theft, industrial espionage and attacks by hackers. IT infrastructure: Industry 4.0 requires existing installations to be adapted and, in some cases, entirely new types of IT infrastructure. Diverse systems need to be networked and to learn to communicate with each other, and new communication networks may need to be developed from scratch. Lack of adequate skill-sets: Transitioning towards the fourth industrial revolution may require lots of multidisciplinary skills not all companies have among their employees. Luckily, solves these three problems for you. Close × Educational and research labs A remote lab (RL) uses laboratory equipment which is connected to the Internet so that it can be operated at distance. Experimentation plays an essential role in engineering and scientific education and research. Whereas hands-on labs offer students opportunities of experimentation with real systems, they involve high costs associated with equipment, space, and maintenance staff. Accordingly, RLs have been gaining importance during the last years. RLs provide other important benefits too: Availability: RLs can be used from anywhere at any time, thus they support users geographically scattered. Accessibility for handicapped people. Observability: lab sessions can be watched by many people or even recorded. Safety: RLs can be a better alternative to hands-on labs for dangerous experiments. Different empirical studies have shown that RLs enable learning results comparable to traditional hands-on labs. Furthermore, many academics think that RLs provide interesting advantages over hands-on labs. For example, RLs can be available 24 h a day, 7 days a week. In contrast, hands-on labs are often only available for short periods of time due to logistical and economic reasons. Forming and understanding scientific concepts is the result of an iterative learning process that requires experimenting repeatedly with the lab. For that reason, hand-on labs are sometimes insufficient to fulfill the desired impact on students’ learning. Remote and hands-on labs are not exclusive alternatives, but valuable educational resources that can be combined in one integral and complementary learning unit. Academics have proposed the blended usage of and remote labs and hands-on labs to foster Kolb’s constructivist cycle, and thus, enabling high order learning. In particular, they...