Analysis of response time and data consumption of the Delta DX-3001 industrial cloud router

Abstract

The application of teleservice or remote support within the process of diagnosis and maintenance of equipment and machinery is part of the advance in relation to industry 4.0, so that a service technician can, through the internet and M2M equipment, execute a diagnosis and in the best of cases solve the difficulties presented, thus avoiding travel expenses. This document presents an analysis of both the response time of sending and receiving data, as well as the data consumption of the mobile network that provides Internet access to the Delta brand Industrial Router, when establishing a connection and transferring information to a Siemens S7-1200 Programmable Logic Controller, to determine consumption and the speed with which remote support could be provided to this type of devices. The results obtained says that in terms of connection speed when managing a 3G network, these times are extended depending on the size of the program that is to be transferred or received from the PLC and the latency of the network, since the location of router affects it and the coverage of the operator that provides the service, so you can think about routers with 4G or 5G connectivity, if it is demanding to transfer data in reduced times. Regarding data consumption, it can be determined that it is relatively low based on the amount of data that an operator can provide for navigation, in addition, the remote service is not a constant activity, so the costs are not greater than the transfer of a person to the site.