Totally Integrated Automation offers a bus system with PROFINET that can be used to connect controllers as well as other automation components and drives directly to the Ethernet network and therefore to the Internet. Any switches required for this purpose are available in a wide selection for all performance ranges – with products from the SCALANCE series.

If the automation network is connected to the Internet, you can access all connected devices online from one engineering station – even if the lower-level components are connected to PROFIBUS. This consistency of PROFINET across bus limits can be used to perform all parameterization and programming functions even remotely via the Internet. This approach opens up completely new service and maintenance concepts which can even be used in remote areas thanks to an improved infrastructure with fast Internet connections.