Success story: industrial automation and open source in advanced wood research May 13, 2026 Arduino Industrial Detecting wood grain angle in 60 timber species: the measurement challenge In the timber industry, the precise determination of grain angle is crucial for evaluating the mechanical strength and qualit... Read more
Plastic Injection Machine Monitoring System with ESP32 PLC and Cloud Integration May 7, 2026 Arduino & Raspberry Pi Industrial News, Industry 4.0, IoT ACQUISITALL: Open Technology for Industrial Monitoring and Energy Control Project Overview ACQUISITALL is an industrial monitoring and energy automation solution developed for plastic injection enviro... Read more
How to work with the 5GHz Wi-Fi module of the ESP32 Apr 17, 2026 Arduino Industrial Introduction The devices of the ESP32 Ethernet & WiFi & BLE PLC controller family have an integrated 5GHz Wi-Fi specific chip, called ISM43340. As you may know, the 5GHz Wi-Fi band is an improved vers... 5GHz Communication ESP32 ESP32PLC PLC Wi-fi Wifi Read more
Meet the Arduino UNO Q: The Next-Level Edge Power for Makers, Developers, and Industrial Innovators Oct 13, 2025 Arduino Industrial An Arduino Linux + Microcontroller Hybrid for Edge AI, IoT, and Real-Time Control The Arduino UNO Q is here — and it’s changing the rules of what a development board can do. Designed for makers,... Read more
OneWire with Arduino and ESP32 based PLCs Jun 17, 2025 Arduino Industrial Introduction If you're diving into the world of industrial PLCs and temperature measurement, you'll inevitably come across the OneWire protocol and DallasTemperature sensors like the DS18B20. These to... Read more
Live debugging with OpenPLC Jun 9, 2025 Arduino Industrial OpenPLC allows us to live debug a remote PLC. It's a very powerful tool, but there are some things that have to be taken into account to avoid any possible issues. Previous blogs This blog is part of ... Read more
Using the Powermeter module with ESP32 PLC 14 Feb 13, 2025 Arduino Industrial Introduction The ESP32 PLC 14 with the Powermeter expandable module featuresreal-time monitoring of electrical parameters across a three-phase system. The setup involves three live (phase) lines— Line... Read more
Modbus RTU with Arduino and ESP32 based PLCs Feb 11, 2025 Arduino Industrial Introduction Modbus RTU is a widely used communication protocol in industrial automation, known for its simplicity, reliability, and ability to operate over long distances. It facilitates communicatio... Read more
Building an MQTT over TLS Connection: A Guide for ESP32 PLC Feb 10, 2025 Arduino Industrial Introduction In the world of Internet of Things , secure and reliable communication is of paramount importance. MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) is a lightweight messaging protocol widely us... Read more
Industrial Shields commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Jan 13, 2025 Arduino & Raspberry Pi Industrial News, Industry 4.0, IoT At Industrial Shields , we recognize that sustainability is not just a responsibility but an opportunity to create meaningful change. That’s why we actively contribute to the Sustainable Development G... Read more
Creating external variables in OpenPLC to interact with an Arduino extension Jan 8, 2025 Arduino Industrial Creating external variables allows the ladder diagram to interact with the code from the Arduino extension. To properly achieve this, there's some steps that have to be followed. In this blog we'll al... Read more
How to interact with inputs and outputs of a Touchberry Panel Dec 11, 2024 Raspberry Pi for Industry Getting Started with the Touchberry Panel The Industrial Shields TouchBerry Pi Panel PC is a Raspberry Pi-based Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) that combines the power of Raspberry Pi technology w... Read more