Ignition IIoT Software
Make Your Data More Accessible, Powerful, and Efficient with MQTT
1-800-266-7798Affordable IIoT solutions available, call us for details
The Industrial Internet of Things: It’s Here, It Works, It’s Ignition
Ignition IIoT by Inductive Automation® is an end-to-end Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution that combines the amazing efficiency of the MQTT data-transfer protocol with the unlimited data acquisition and development power of the Ignition industrial application platform. With Ignition, you can easily connect to plant-floor and field devices at the edge of your network, and push data from thousands of devices across numerous sites through a central MQTT infrastructure to both industrial and business applications.
Benefits of Using Ignition:
Unlimited Licensing:
Unlimited tags, devices and database connections, and clients
Decouple Devices and Applications:
Make all your data accessible through a pub/sub architecture
Universal Platform:
IIoT, SCADA, alarming, reporting, and more — on one platform
Streamline Your Data Pipeline:
Create one efficient pipeline for all your IIoT data
Built on Trusted IT Standards:
MQTT, Java, SQL, OPC UA, and Python
Powerful Partnerships:
We also offer IIoT solutions for Ignition developed by the MQTT experts at Cirrus Link Solutions
"I've waited 17 years for a platform like Ignition to come along. Now with MQTT and Ignition, IIoT is a reality."
– Arlen Nipper
Co-Inventor of MQTT
Major Features
Instantly Subscribe to Your Industrial Data
For years, industrial applications have polled for data by directly connecting to devices, resulting in antiquated systems that are unnecessarily complicated, nearly impossible to scale, and that leave huge amounts of data stranded in the field. By leveraging the MQTT protocol’s publish-and-subscribe methodologies, Ignition decouples devices from applications and pushes the polling to the edge of the network. This creates one streamlined data pipeline that frees data to be instantly accessible to the entire enterprise, without straining data bandwidth.
See how MQTT is making the IIoT possible
MQTT: Build a Truly “Industrial” Internet of Things
Ignition uses MQTT: a proven, standard, data-transfer protocol that is quickly becoming the leading messaging protocol for the IIoT. MQTT was designed specifically to meet the demands of industrial control systems, so it’s extremely lightweight (2-byte header), bidirectional, stateful, and secured with TLS technology.
Learn more about MQTT
One Universal Platform for IIoT, SCADA and More
Ignition is the only IIoT platform with built-in tools for creating full-featured SCADA systems. Ignition is modular, so you can easily add fully integrated software modules for building industrial applications such as SCADA, alarming, reporting and more. With Ignition, you can connect to all your IIoT data, rapidly develop any kind of industrial application, and instantly web-launch clients to virtually any device — all without limits.
Automatic Tag Creation and Health Metrics
Eliminate hours of tedious data entry with Ignition and MQTT. Upon each initial connection, tags are automatically learned and instantly created in Ignition. Once tags are created, their data values are continually updated as new values are published from the field. With Ignition, you can track metrics about the health of your system, including data from end devices, edge gateways, and MQTT servers.
Add Integrated MQTT Software Modules
Cirrus Link Solutions is a strategic third-party module partner of Inductive Automation with years of experience developing top-quality IIoT solutions. With software modules for transmitting data from the field via MQTT, launching an MQTT server in the cloud, and connecting that data to industrial and business applications, the Cirrus Link IIoT modules for Ignition empower organizations to create one streamlined pipeline for all their IIoT data.
Learn more about Cirrus Link Modules
Ignition IIoT Architectures
Adding the Cirrus Link MQTT Modules to the Ignition platform empowers companies to set up their own IIoT solution. There are four main features to an Ignition IIoT architecture.
Publish Data from The Network’s Edge
With Ignition IIoT, you can connect to virtually any PLC or device, and transmit and receive edge-of-network data in multiple ways: READ MORE
Publish and Subscribe to Data Through MQTT
Ignition has several ways to securely connect, publish, and subscribe to MQTT data including launching its own MQTT server or connecting to compatible ones. READ MORE
Connect Ignition to an MQTT Server
The Ignition MQTT Engine Module gives Ignition the ability to bidirectionally communicate with an MQTT server and share that data with any Ignition client.
Build and Deploy Ignition Applications
With Ignition, you can build an MQTT infrastructure, design any kind of industrial application, and deploy it to any number of Ignition clients across your enterprise.
Flexible & Scalable Architectures: In the Cloud, On-Premise, or Both
The architecture of Ignition IIoT is flexible: you can set it up in the Cloud, on a private on-premise network, or a hybrid of both. Ignition is also easily scalable so you can grow from a small system to an enterprise-wide solution with ease.
Download the architecture PDF
More Features
Do Even More with Ignition IIoT
Third-Party MQTT Platform Integration
Full integration with other MQTT platforms: Azure, AWS IoT, Watson IoT, and more
Exceptional Redundancy and Security
Security, disaster recovery, and high availability are native capabilities of MQTT infrastructures.
Seamless Integration with Ignition SCADA
All Ignition solutions work seamlessly together for easy system integration.
Dynamic Reporting
Create a full range of dynamic, data-rich reports and send them anywhere.
Alarming Notification
Set up an alarming system that sends notifications to you through email, SMS, and voice.
Industrial Historian
Turn a SQL database into a high-performance time-series tag historian.
HMIs and Dashboards
Create high-performance HMIs and enterprise dashboards to display your data.
Get Mobile Access
Get mobile access to your industrial applications via smartphones and tablets.
Instant Installs and Updates
Install on a server in just 3 minutes; push updates to clients everywhere, instantly.
Totally Cross-Platform
Works on Windows, Linux, macOS, and more.
Concurrent Web-Launched Designers
Comes out the box with the industry’s most powerful IDE—for free.
Unlimited Clients
Deliver data to anyone without additional costs.
See How Ignition Can Help Your Business
Get fast answers and friendly advice in a one-on-one, online demonstration of how to use Ignition to create the ideal IIoT solution for your business.
Talk to an Ignition expertSome of the companies that depend on Ignition:
One platform for IIoT and SCADA? Click to see how Ignition works.