A Survey of Industrial Internet of Things Platforms for Establishing Centralized Data-Acquisition Middleware: Categorization, Experiment, and Challenges

Table 1

Qualitative analysis of IIoT data acquisition middleware systems.

Middleware (company)	Operation environment	Industrial protocols	Communication protocol	Db driver	Real time	Security
Azure IoT Hub (Microsoft) [31]	Cloud	OPC-UA, modbus	MQTT, REST	O	O	O
AWS Industrial IoT (Amazon) [32]	Cloud	OPC-UA, modbus	MQTT, REST	O	O	O
IBM PSB (IBM) [33]	On-premises	OPC-UA	MQTT, REST	O	O	O
Oracle Internet of Things Cloud Service (Oracle) [34]	Cloud	X	REST	O	X	O
Predix edge (GE digital) [35]	Cloud	OPC-UA, modbus	MQTT, REST	O	O	O
Kepware (PTC) [36]	On-premises	PLCs, modbus, OPC-DA/UA	MQTT, REST	O	O	O
PI Collect (OSIsoft) [37]	On-premises	PLCs, modbus, OPC-DA/UA	MQTT, REST	O	O	O
AVEVA Edge (Aveva) [38]	On-premises	PLCs, modbus, OPC-DA/UA	MQTT, REST	X	O	O
Mind Sphere Connect (Siemens) [39]	Cloud	PLC (Siemens), modbus, OPC-UA	MQTT, REST	X	O	O
WISE-PaaS (Adventech) [40]	Cloud	OPC-UA	MQTT, REST	O	O	O
ThingPlug (SKT) [41]	Cloud	X	MQTT, REST, OneM2M	O	X	O
N-MAS (Ntels) [42]	Cloud, om-premises	X	MQTT, REST	O	X	O
ThingSPIN (Hancom MDS) [43]	On-premises	OPC-UA, modbus	REST	O	O	O
TeraONE (DataStreams) [44]	On-premises	OPC-UA	REST, OneM2M	O	O	O
MOBIUS (KETI) [45]	On-premises	X	REST, OneM2M	X	O	O
IoTEP [46]	On-premises	X	MQTT, REST, LwM2M	O	O	O
SEnviro Connect [47]	Cloud	X	MQTT, REST	O	O	O
SPLS [48]	Cloud	X	—	O	O	O