Technical introduction

TC3 IoT Functions is a product for the TwinCAT 3 runtime that enables bi-directional data communication with the Cloud. To establish a connectivity channel with a cloud service, the product uses technical functionalities of the TC3 IoT Data Agent (TF6720) in the background. TC3 IoT Functions can therefore be used with every cloud service that is also supported by the TC3 IoT Data Agent.
Note that the TC3 IoT Data Agent is only used for providing the connectivity layer to the cloud and no TF6720 license has to be purchased to use TF6710.

TC3 IoT Functions and TC3 IoT Data Agent do not have to run on the same system, but can also run separately from each other on different systems (see Setup scenarios).

Technical introduction 1:

Features

TC3 IoT Functions includes the following features:

  • Read/Write operations for messages that should be send/received to/from a cloud service
  • Convenient timeout, error and retry handling