Industrial IoT is becoming increasingly wireless—especially thanks to energy-efficient LPWAN technologies like LoRaWAN®. This allows IO-Link sensors to be connected flexibly and their data transmitted over long distances, for example using devices like the Sentinum AION.
However, this efficiency comes with a key challenge: only a few bytes are available per message, and there is no continuous high-bandwidth communication. Only cyclic process data is transmitted—heavily compressed and reduced to the absolute minimum.
What arrives in the cloud is not directly usable information, but raw byte streams. Their significance lies not in the payload, but in the associated IODDs. Projects therefore often get stuck in the integration phase, as every new device connection requires custom solutions.
This is exactly where IODA comes in: a cloud-based IODD decoding service that handles the interpretation—automatically, standardized, and without any intervention in the devices. In this way, IODA combines the efficiency of LPWAN with the usability of structured data—and makes IO-Link truly scalable in wireless architectures for the first time.