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General program of the week
First day - Monday 12/05/2025
The first day of the LEAP Camp started with a short opening ceremony before diving into two technical workshops:
- a module on remote supervision of industrial PCs via BMC/SNMP
- a session dedicated to local monitoring with the SUSI4 alarm card and the Edge365 platform.
After lunch, the advanced track participants visited the Linkou production plant (Advantech), an opportunity to see firsthand Advantech's quality control methods.
The afternoon continued with a hands-on workshop on remote BIOS updates, followed by a demonstration of real-time performance optimization that showed how to reduce system latency.
The day concluded in a friendly atmosphere around a welcome party where partners and R&D teams were able to exchange freely.
The day concluded in a friendly atmosphere around a welcome party where partners and R&D teams were able to exchange freely.
Bubble Tea, very popular in Taiwan
Visit to the Advantech Linkou factory
Group photo after the "Welcome Party"
Second day - Tuesday 05/13/2025
The second day of the LEAP Camp was focused on Edge AI.
The morning began with a workshop presenting the tools "Useful Tools for MIC Edge AI products", where trainers demonstrated how to quickly diagnose a fanless PC dedicated to AI (MIC-770 AI) and deploy pre-trained AI models without going through the cloud. Following that, the session "Build AI Solution with Edge Agent" guided step by step the creation of an AI pipeline: data collection, inference with open-source AI models, and MQTT publications to redirect alerts or operational results.
The morning began with a workshop presenting the tools "Useful Tools for MIC Edge AI products", where trainers demonstrated how to quickly diagnose a fanless PC dedicated to AI (MIC-770 AI) and deploy pre-trained AI models without going through the cloud. Following that, the session "Build AI Solution with Edge Agent" guided step by step the creation of an AI pipeline: data collection, inference with open-source AI models, and MQTT publications to redirect alerts or operational results.
After the lunch break, the focus shifted to industrial reliability: the module "Server iManager – Enabler Kit" detailed the mechanisms of hardware monitoring (temperature, watchdog, smart-fan) and how to report these metrics via REST or SNMP. A practical workshop on the utility "Advanced LAN Bypass Control Unit" then allowed for configuring, testing, and validating a hardware network switch < 10 ms, essential for Safety / Industrial Firewall applications.
The technical day concluded with the "Taipei City Tour": a visit to the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial, a stroll and visit to the Lungshan Temple, and a meal at a nearby night market. This interlude provided an ideal moment to strengthen ties with other Channel Partners and Advantech engineers and to exchange feedback on Edge AI deployments in production.
Third day - Wednesday 05/14/2025
Yesterday, Wednesday, May 14th, the day was entirely dedicated to Advantech's LPWAN solutions. The morning started with a double introduction: first, an overview of the IoT market and the WISE Remote I/O modules, followed by a reminder of the LoRaWAN fundamentals that laid the technical foundations for the rest of the day. A specific focus on the vibration sensor WISE-2410 then allowed for a review of its health index calculation principle and its various possible configurations.
The afternoon was largely practical: a two-and-a-half-hour workshop on the WISE-6610 guided step-by-step through the setup of a private LoRaWAN network, Modbus integration, and the creation of a NodeRED dashboard. After a short break for "Local Food Tea Time", the lab resumed to test high availability clustering and MQTT publishing to an external broker. The day ended without a formal social event, leaving time for informal technical exchanges and preparation for the CODESYS block scheduled for the next day.
Fourth day - Thursday 15/05/2025
The morning started with the step-by-step installation of the DAQ SDK and its "re-pack" tool, which allows generating a turnkey system image including drivers and iDAQ libraries; the "High-speed sampling" session then demonstrated the simultaneous acquisition of 50 kS/s per channel on a USB-5801 chassis, with a focus on PTP synchronization. Finally, the introduction to the iDAQ system detailed the new DMA buffering architecture and the direct publishing of data to InfluxDB.
At noon, we were able to taste the beef noodles Taiwanese.
Last day - Friday 16/02/2025
The last day was focused on software solutions and data collection from Advantech.
As part of the workshops and training offered for this last day of training, we have set up a data collection from power measurement stations to the IoTEdge software in Advantech's cloud.
The goal is to enable data recovery through an IoT gateway (ECU-1051) communicating in Modbus/RTU with an energy measurement station. The gateway then sends its data to the IoTEdge software in the cloud using the MQTT protocol.
The goal is to enable data recovery through an IoT gateway (ECU-1051) communicating in Modbus/RTU with an energy measurement station. The gateway then sends its data to the IoTEdge software in the cloud using the MQTT protocol.
Once the data is sent to the cloud, we configured the IoTEdge software to save and present it in the form of a dynamic dashboard with a selection of the display period (5min, 15min, 6h, 3 months...).
To conclude the event, we received our "2025 LEAP CAMP Advanced IIoT" certification.
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