Edge Service

This is a local Windows service that handles the communication between local data sources/destinations and the RS Production Cloud.

Platform-Independent Communication

While EdgeService always runs on a Windows-based machine, it is not limited to communicating only with Windows-based data sources.

As long as the systems are reachable over the network, EdgeService can exchange data with various environments:

• An OPC UA server running on Linux can seamlessly integrate with EdgeService, since OPC UA is a platform- and protocol-independent standard.

• EdgeService can also communicate with other Windows machines, for example, a database hosted on another Windows server — as long as the network connection is open and properly configured.

In summary: EdgeService requires Windows as its runtime environment, but thanks to network connectivity and platform-independent communication protocols, it can easily interact with data sources regardless of their operating system.

No need to open ports for incoming data

The Edge Service has a very safe way to communicate.

There is never any traffic initiated from the RS Production cloud into you local network.

All data traffic to the RS Production cloud service is initiated from the local RS Production Edge Service.

• All traffic is encrypted

• Communication uses HTTPS

• All traffic is on port 443