Network infrastructure provider Belden has launched two new industrial DataOps solutions designed to simplify integrating industrial data for decision making. The Belden Horizon Data Operations (BHDO) and Belden Horizon Data Manager (BHDM) are designed to work together to reduce industrial OT data complexity with managed data access, analytics and integration.

BHDO and BHDM are designed to enable industrial organisations to extract actionable insights from OT assets to reveal areas to streamline production processes, enhance operational efficiency and improve uptime.

BHDO collects and analyses OT data at the network edge and transmits it to information technology (IT) destinations for further analysis and action. BHDM manages distributed BHDO deployments.

BHDO and BHDM incorporate 250+ supported OT protocols and easy integration into dozens of IT system types as well as digital twins and analytics tooling to collect, contextualise and analyse data at the edge. They scale to support large or remote deployments by using BHDM software to manage many BHDO instances.

“Today’s enterprises face an ever-increasing proliferation of connected devices, driving the need to capture and analyse high volumes of data at the edge and then transmit data to IT systems for additional contextualisation and analysis,” said Jeremy M. Friedmar, Director of Product Management, Edge Solutions at Belden. “BHDO streamlines edge OT data collection and IT systems integration through its pre-loaded connectors, integrations, and low-code programming, while BHDM manages distributed BHDO instances. Our BHDO and BHDM solutions are vendor agnostic and easy-to-use while providing robust data normalisation to optimise edge data management.”

BHDO and BHDM edge applications are new additions to the Belden Horizon software-based services suite. The full suite is designed to provide a simpler and secure way to connect and manage operational systems at the edge.