REST APIs on Industrial PLCs Part 2: System Health Monitoring | by Peter Lebiedzinski | Sep, 2022
Monitor the health of every device on your systemIntroductionAPIs are great for offloading computation and running processes that are not easily done in a given programming language. In the first part of this series, REST APIs on Industrial PLCs¹, we implemented a simple API that adds and retrieves entries from a SQL database. The data entered into the database is for training a Machine Learning model to detect anomalies in the servo drives connected to the controller.In this example, we will run a basic training loop for…