Smart sensor for the Internet of Things

Pho­to­elec­tric all-rounder BOS 21M ADCAP­Gen­er­at­ing, trans­port­ing and pro­cess­ing infor­ma­tion are cen­tral tasks in the Indus­try 4.0 envi­ron­ment. The basis for all the infor­ma­tion is intel­li­gent sen­sors which pro­vide the required input. With their BOS 21M ADCAP will be show­ing a new­ly devel­oped opti­cal mul­ti­func­tion sen­sor, the BOS 21M series.
The all-rounder uses red light and lets you choose from among four sen­sor modes: back­ground sup­pres­sion, ener­getic dif­fuse, retrore­flec­tive or through-beam sen­sor. All the sen­sor func­tions can be con­fig­ured over IO-Link while the sys­tem is run­ning, so that a remote teach-in can be ini­ti­at­ed by the controller.
In addi­tion the sen­sor detects actu­al oper­at­ing con­di­tions, col­lects and process­es infor­ma­tion and pro­vides far more data than just the switch­ing sig­nal over IO-Link. Detec­tion sig­nals are pre­pared and pre-processed in the sen­sor. This relieves the bur­den on the sys­tem con­troller and reduces data vol­ume on the field­bus systems.