Digi International Launches Digi IX40, a 5G Edge Computing Industrial IoT Cellular Solution Purpose-Built for Industry 4.0

Digi International Inc. (NASDAQ: DGII, www.digi.com), a leading global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity products and services, announces the market launch of Digi IX40, a 5G edge computing industrial IoT cellular router solution. Digi IX40 is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 use cases such as advanced robotics, predictive maintenance, asset monitoring, industrial automation and smart manufacturing. Fully integrated with Digi Remote Manager, this solution’s capabilities improve security and scalability while ensuring speed, reliability and efficiency.

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Digi International Launches Digi IX40, a 5G Edge Computing Industrial IoT Cellular Solution Purpose-Built for Industry 4.0 (Graphic: Business Wire)

The Digi IX40 cellular solution supports 5G connectivity and edge intelligence, allowing enterprises to seamlessly connect multiple machines (wired or wireless) in the most demanding environments, optimizing the integration of cloud-delivered operational technology (OT) services with information technology (IT) to enable network-wide visibility, monitoring and control. Its all-in-one design, powerful computing capabilities and integrated memory also promote real-time data processing, remote monitoring and precision analytics which are highly important for critical applications in industrial automation, utilities, renewable energy, oil and gas and digital signage.

Key use cases for this solution include:

• Industry 4.0:
  • Manufacturing process automation
  • Industrial automation and control
  • Precision monitoring and control
  • Condition-based monitoring
  • Predictive maintenance
  • Advanced robotics
  • 5G cellular and fiber failover
• Utilities:
  • Real-time monitoring and control
  • Smart grid distribution automation
  • Commercial and industrial metering
  • Renewable energy
  • Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS)
  • Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
• Oil and gas:
  • Oil field drilling monitoring
  • Pump station monitoring
• Smart cities:
  • Digital signage
  • Traffic management

“For businesses today — especially those leveraging Industry 4.0 technologies — edge computing is a must-have, providing the compute power and real-time data processing for the most data intensive applications,” said Vitaly Kurduban, Senior Product Manager of industrial cellular solutions at Digi. “Digi is a long-standing leader in industrial cellular technology. The new Digi IX40 solution helps our customers quickly and cost-effectively take advantage of intelligence at the edge. This helps them make optimal use of the power and speed of edge computing to enable real-time processing, faster insights, enhanced security and reduced latency. These are some of the key requirements of Industry 4.0 applications.”