Industrial Automation Wiki:About

As described in wikipedia, Industrial Automation is the use of control systems such as computers to control industrial machinery and processes, replacing human operators.

Automation often requires devices with different interfaces to be able to communicate with each other. For example a controller may need to receive input from a fire alarm system, a lighting system and various sensors all made by different manufacturers. In such cases it is often necessary to convert data from the protocol used by one device to another protocols.