Siemens Industrial Edge on AWS Reference Architecture (Part 1 of 2)

This reference architecture provides a baseline of integrating Siemens Industrial Edge with AWS services.

Siemens Industrial Edge Devices run

Factory AWS Cloud RedShift Spectrum 1 Southbound Connector which connects
to field devices and gateways through
4 Amazon Amazon
AWS IoT Notification Redshift QuickSight different protocols. Connectors are
ML Inference Events deployed and distributed from Siemens
Siemens (DWH (BI & Visualization)
Siemens (Complex Events) Industrial Edge Management to
Industrial Edge Industrial Edge 5 Structured data)
Cameras
Device Management 3 Siemens Industrial Edge devices.
2 Data Lake
AWS AppSync
OPC-UA Cloud connector application
Amazon AWS Lambda
2 establishes connectivity to AWS and
AWS IoT Amazon Kinesis Athena
Industrial Cloud Amazon S3 AWS Glue Amazon S3 transfers data using MQTT protocol
Equipment/ Core Data Firehose
Connector (Raw data) (ETL job) (Processed over a secure TLS layer.
Machines data) Amazon API
1 Amazon Gateway
Data ingested into AWS IoT Core is
Profinet App
Neptune 3 streamed to AWS IoT SiteWise,
PLC/DCS Repository Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, and
+ additional AWS IoT Amazon AWS IoT Events.
Southbound Amazon AWS Notification Notifications
industrial SiteWise SNS
Connector Kinesis Fargate
protocols Amazon
Data (Analytics) AWS IoT Events processes the data
Streams
SageMaker Web App
4 and sends notifications based on
6 business logic.
Historian AWS CodePipeline
App 1..N VPC – Business Apps Amazon Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose streams
Cognito 5 data directly into an Amazon S3
bucket, then AWS Glue extracts and
I.E API or Private subnet transforms data to be consumed by
AWS CodeCommit AWS CodeBuild
Docker via IoT Jobs Amazon SageMaker or Amazon
images Amazon
MES
/ Config files CloudFront Redshift.
Elastic Load
Balancing The industrial Edge API and AWS IoT
6 jobs processed in the CI/CD pipeline
S3 Bucket publish Docker images and
AWS Transfer AWS Glue Amazon EC2 configuration files to Siemens
for SFTP Amazon ECR Industrial Edge Management.
Local Data
Amazon Amazon Amazon
AWS DataSync AWS Database Route 53
RDS EBS
Migration Service

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Siemens Industrial Edge on AWS Reference Architecture (Part 2 of 2)
This reference architecture expands upon the baseline integration and integrates AWS services with Siemens MindSphere services.
Siemens Industrial Edge connector
1 supports MQTT through AWS IoT Core
Factory MindSphere on AWS Custom Apps with Mendix (AWS) in Siemens MindSphere platform.

Web App
ML Inference
Asset Data
Siemens Industrial Siemens Industrial Fleet Asset Perf Closed-Loop Manage my Control Perf Visual Visual Process Event Connector ingests data directly into
Cameras Edge Edge
Manager Manager Monitor Simulation Explorer Machines Analytics Explorer Anayzer Anayzer 2 MindSphere through Rest API of
Device Management Amazon Siemens MindSphere (MindConnect)
1 MindSphere IoT MindSphere Metadata MindSphere Cognito
OPC-UA & Access Control Analytics

Industrial Cloud AWS IoT Core

(MindSphere Amazon Kinesis Amazon S3 Amazon IoT Modeler
Equipment/ Connector 2 Data Firehose DynamoDB
App MQTT) Aurora APIs Amazon Siemens MindSphere application
Machines Repository CloudFront 3 container registry uses Amazon Elastic
Asset Modeler
Predictive Container Registry (Amazon ECR) to
Profinet Learning deploy analytics apps and models to
MDSP
PLC/DCS Connectivity Siemens industrial Edge.
+ additional Rules Notification Amazon SES Data Sharing S3 Bucket
Southbound Semantic
industrial
Connector Queries
protocols
Ontologies Batch and bulk upload to MindSphere
4 BYO Amazon 4
MindSphere Data Lake & Processing Data lake is possible through Industrial
AWS IoT Model Route 53
Edge applications.
Greengrass Catalog &
Historian Search
IDL SDI Data VFC
Eng.
Digital Twin
Closed-Loop
6 Customers train their own models in
App 1..N Docker 5 Amazon SageMaker from MindSphere
images MindSphere App Container Registry 5
MES Data Lake exported data. ML inference
/ Config files
can then be deployed on MindSphere
3 Model Amazon ECR or on the edge.
Deploy ML Model

MindSphere AWS Cloud MindSphere Data lake integration with

Edge Amazon
SageMaker
6 AWS services makes it possible to
Local Data Streaming import and export data into or out of
(ML)
AWS Amazon S3 AWS IoT MindSphere.
AWS Transfer AWS IoT AWS Glue Amazon Redshift Amazon QuickSight
for SFTP DataSync Core SiteWise (ETL job) (DWH (BI & Visualization)
Structured data)

Reviewed for technical accuracy May 12, 2021

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