Networking IT and OT – INSYS icom Industrial Routers

Gateways from INSYS icom are built for use in all industrial environments. They have powerful electronics, a housing that meets every requirement and an operating system that protects against attacks. In addition, our industrial routers are “Made in Germany”. The software and hardware development takes place at our facility in Regensburg and devices are manufactured almost exclusively in Germany.
The gateways comply with all established industrial standards: they are vibration and shock resistant and designed for large temperature ranges (-30°C to +75 °C, depending on the variant).

INSYS icom gateways are characterised by their simple operation and setup. For example, integrated quick start wizards help with the initial setup of the devices and configuration with the VPN server. In addition, a plausibility check serves as an indicator for a stable configuration. Extensive debugging and monitoring functions ensure that the administrator always has the settings and configurations under control.

The MRX router series from INSYS icom offers the right interfaces for all requirements. The gateways feature a modular design and can be expanded via plug-in cards. The MRX series is available in four connection variants as a fibre, LAN, DSL or 4G model. The smaller version offers one free slot, while the larger version has three slots for MRcard expansion cards. This limits the investment to your current requirements, but allows you to upgrade flexibly and thus extend the life cycle of the unit.

Industrial data communication requires a high level of security. That is why we only select high-grade components for the hardware of our industrial routers and use a secure operating system developed in-house. The basis for this is a hardened Linux system which is particularly stable and reliable. In addition, a number of security functions are integrated, such as network filters, a secure firewall, access controls with different user roles and rights as well as certificate-based authentication, including blocking lists. Industrial routers from INSYS icom also receive regular firmware updates, which further increase security. In order to control machines remotely, the gateway is accessed from outside via encrypted VPN access. Thanks to these features the INSYS icom industrial routers are suitable for use in critical infrastructures (KRITIS).

In the IIoT, data accumulates from different sources and in different formats. Edge or cloud computing is particularly suitable for collecting and processing this data. With the icom Data Suite application, your industrial router becomes an edge gateway that fundamentally pre-processes and aggregates data. In this way the gateway additionally performs the tasks of an industrial PC – and you save both costs and space in your control cabinet. Accordingly, data is transformed into real information. In addition, you can run your own applications completely separated from the router firmware in a container environment.

Thanks to the icom Data Suite, INSYS icom routers easily transfer data to pre-integrated cloud systems using plug & play or generically using MQTT. In addition, INSYS icom industrial routers support many machine protocols such as IEC-60870-5-101 Master, IEC-60870-5-104 Server, Codesys, Modbus, Modbus Client or Siemens S7. Accordingly, the industrial routers also network heterogeneous plant environments.

INSYS icom routers provide many ways for you to monitor the status of your machines. Changes to ports, change of WAN accesses or even integrated counters or expiring timers – all this can be retrieved by users by individual event. In addition, industrial routers can also react to events, for example when a threshold value is exceeded or other anomalies. If this is the case, alarms can be sent via various channels, for example MS, SNMP traps and email.