Introduction to External Databus

The External Databus allows you to connect remote clients to the IED over MQTT. The data pushed to External Databus is pushed to Databus on the configured topics and is available to be consumed by other apps within the IED if it is configured to operate this way.

The External Databus consists of the following two components:

1. Databus Configurator in Industrial Edge Management:

   Databus Configurator in IEM includes user interface for configuring Databus and External Databus called Databus Configurator and External Databus Configurator respectively. Hence, Databus Configurator has to be installed on IEM to be able to configure External Databus of the corresponding IED.

2. External Databus:

   The External Databus is a distributed application that runs on the individual Industrial Edge Device.