Communication gateway NFS-M8-QM-D2-N16/NFLD

industrialtelemetryIoT

Description
sensorEDGE FIELD is an instant solution to monitor IO-Link-equipped machines at the edge. Housed in an IP67 enclosure, the device aggregates signals from up to eight local IO-Link sensors and exposes sensor data as MQTT messages. The built-in container engine allows the MQTT broker and additional processing or forwarding containers to run directly on the device. An optional central edge management feature provides remote orchestration of the device and its containers via a cloud portal.

Key features

• Connection of up to 8 local IO-Link sensors
• Freely usable CPU processing power: 1.6 GHz Quad‑Core ARM 64-bit
• Sensor data accessible via internal MQTT bus and available as MQTT messages
• Includes IO-Link web configurator and IO-Link→MQTT data converter
• Extendable with customer-developed IoT applications using containers
• Optional central device and container management through cloud portal
• IP67 protection for direct installation in machines

Protocols

• Ethernet
• IO-Link Master

Order information (table)
Product name — Part number — Brief description
NFS-M8-QM-D2-N16/NFLD — 1915.231 — sensorEDGE FIELD - Edge IO-Link master with remote management option

Downloads
Datasheet available (English and German).

Technical specifications

• Product name: NFS-M8-QM-D2-N16/NFLD
• Commercial name: sensorEDGE FIELD
• Part number: 1915.231
• Protection class: IP67
• IO-Link ports: 8 local IO-Link sensor ports
• Uplink: Ethernet
• CPU: 1.6 GHz Quad‑Core ARM 64-bit (freely usable processing power)
• Data access: internal MQTT bus; data available as MQTT messages
• Software: container engine; includes a base container that auto-detects connected IO-Link sensors and retrieves IODD device descriptions; web-based IO-Link configurator container for sensor settings
• Extendability: supports customer-developed IoT applications via containers
• Management: optional central edge management (cloud portal) for device and container orchestration
• Use cases: long-term monitoring, predictive maintenance, anomaly detection
• Compatibility: IO-Link standard; compatible with thousands of IO-Link sensors