Cloud gateway for industrial automation information and control systems

A method for sending industrial data to a cloud platform, comprising:

• routing, by a network infrastructure device comprising a processor, data packets between two or more networks, wherein the network infrastructure device is at least one of a firewall device, a network router, a network hub, or a network switch;
• reading, by the network infrastructure device, data from one or more data tags of an industrial device associated with an industrial automation system, wherein the one or more data tags are identified by configuration data associated with the network infrastructure device;
• appending, by the network infrastructure device, contextual metadata to the data to yield contextualized data, the contextual metadata comprising at least one of an identifier of a product being produced by the industrial automation system, a lot number of the product, or a state of a machine of the industrial automation system;
• transforming, by the network infrastructure device, the contextualized data to yield transformed data, wherein the transforming comprises at least one of compressing, aggregating, filtering, or re-formatting the contextualized data;
• and
• sending, by the network infrastructure device, the transformed data to at least one of a cloud-based service or a cloud-based application residing on a cloud platform, wherein the at least one of the cloud-based service or the cloud-based application is identified by the configuration data.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a network infrastructure device to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• routing data packets between multiple networks;
• collecting data from one or more data tags of an industrial device of an industrial automation system, wherein the one or more data tags are specified by configuration data associated with the network infrastructure device;
• adding contextual metadata to the data to yield contextualized data, wherein the adding the contextual metadata comprises adding at least one of an identifier of a product being produced by the industrial automation system, a lot number of the product, or a state of a machine of the industrial automation system;
• at least one of compressing, aggregating, filtering, or re-formatting the contextualized data to yield transformed data;
• and
• sending the transformed data to at least one of a cloud-based service or a cloud-based application residing on a cloud platform,
• wherein
• the at least one of the cloud-based service or the cloud-based application is specified by the configuration data, and
• the network infrastructure device is at least one of a firewall device, a network router, a network hub, or a network switch.