Securing PLCs for the Internet of Things: Selecting the Right Hardware
Internet of Things (IoT) consultant Christofer Dutz has been hard at work building open-source protocol adapters to secure IoT communications with industrial PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) — the computers at the heart of industrial automation applications since the 1970s.
As Dutz — who has been heavily involved in several Apache Software Foundation projects since 2012 — including Apache MyNewt (a lightweight operating system for IoT devices) and Apache PLC4X (a set of libraries for communicating with PLCs using a shared API) — admits, the task is not straightforward.