KEPServerEX

What is KEPServerEX?

KEPServerEX is the industry-leading connectivity platform that provides a single source of industrial automation data for all your applications. Platform design enables users to connect, manage, monitor, and control multiple automation devices and software applications through an intuitive user interface. KEPServerEX uses OPC (the industry standard for automation for interoperability) and IT-centric communication protocols (such as SNMP, ODBC, and Web services) to provide users with a single source of industrial data. The platform is developed and tested to meet customers' performance, reliability and ease-of-use requirements.

Business value

KEPServerEX provides the connectivity, usability, and performance required by the modern enterprise, delivering competitive benefits that can be experienced from the shop floor to it and the meeting room.

• IoT-ready, connecting OPERATIONS with IT and enabling Business Intelligence and Operational Excellence across the enterprise
• Fully compatible with ThingWorx Manufacturing Accelerator, including the ThingWorx Controls Advisor app, which provides real-time remote visibility into connectivity across all factories
• Compatible with major hypervisors, such as VMware and Hyper-V, for flexible deployment in public and private clouds
• Integrates with IT applications for visibility of assets on the shop floor anytime, anywhere
• Enhanced ssl and TLS messaging security for secure, authenticated, and encrypted communications across multiple network topologies
• Advanced application security features to meet site security requirements
• Sophisticated access control to the server, data source, and data values
• Multiple redundancy options to ensure resiliency, high reliability, and uptime in critical applications
• Scalable unified architecture, providing the flexibility to combine drivers and consume multiple protocols on a single server
• Simplified interface for simple installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting

Characteristics

KEPServerEX provides critical technical capabilities that enable accessibility, aggregation, optimization, connectivity, security, and diagnostics.

Accessibility

KEPServerEX provides data access for client applications (such as MES and SCADA) and IoT and Big Data analytical software via OPC, proprietary protocols (including GE NIO, SuiteLink/FastDDE, and Splunk), IT protocols (including MQTT, REST, ODBC, and SNMP), and export flow measurement to common Oil and Gas industry formats.

Optimization

KEPServerEX optimizes communications and reduces network and device load through data conditioning and reduction, custom load balancing, and protocol-specific optimization.

Aggregation

KEPServerEX simplifies the configuration of connected applications by providing a single entry point for all information – eliminating the need to buy, operate, troubleshoot, and maintain several different solutions for discrete connectivity.

Connectivity

KEPServerEX supports the widest range of drivers available, including current and legacy devices in multiple verticals, a variety of wired and wireless network media, and connectivity to databases, custom software applications, and other OPC servers.

Safety

KEPServerEX includes a variety of tools that control user access to the server, data source, or data values, regulate read/write access, provide the ability to connect or disconnect applications, and support the configuration of secure data tunnels.

Diagnosis

KEPServerEX isolates communications from devices and applications for troubleshooting, providing OPC diagnostics for historical and real-time views of OPC events. KEPServerEX also supports communication diagnostics to capture the protocol frames transferred between the server and any device.

System Requirements

Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2016

Windows 8 and 10

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise

Windows 7 Professional / Enterprise / Ultimate

Windows Server 2012 e 2012 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2