Powerful new Arduino-enabled platform bridges maker and industrial worlds.

The Siemens IoT2020 (124-4037) is one of the latest additions to the SIMATIC product family for automation, which encompasses everything from programmable logic controllers (PLC) and industrial PCs with support for PROFIBUS and PROFINET, to human machine interfaces (HMI) and sophisticated, distributed systems for automating manufacturing operations.

The IoT2020 industrial IoT platform came about via a collaboration between RS Components and Siemens and was recently launched with Arduino co-founder, Massimo Banzi, at Rome Maker Faire. In this post we take a first look at the hardware and development options.