Technical introduction
TC3 IoT Data Agent is a gateway application that connects multiple data sources with each other. A data source is typically a communication protocol, e.g. ADS, OPC UA or MQTT. The TC3 IoT Data Agent is configured via a graphical configurator, which creates or edits an XML-based configuration file. On startup, this file is read by the TC3 IoT Data Agent core application, which is installed as a service and therefore runs in the background of the operating system.
Simply spoken: The XML file tells the TC3 IoT DataAgent what to do.
- Which data sources should be connected
- Which cloud services should be used
- Which symbols (variables) should be exchanged and in which direction
- Which data rates and sampling modes should be used
A typical installation of TC3 IoT Data Agent on a controller or gateway computer includes only the TC3 IoT Data Agent core application. The graphical configurator is usually installed on an engineering computer and used to connect to the core application over the network but can also be installed and used on the controller or gateway computer.