PLCnext Technology is an open platform for industrial control from Phoenix Contact. It combines PLCnext Control controllers, which run on Linux, with a development framework and the PLCnext Store, a repository of libraries, applications and runtimes that third parties can also sell. The platform is designed for industrial automation and, according to the vendor, can connect to common cloud IoT services such as AWS, Azure and Google IoT. It is delivered as hardware and software that runs on the customer's own plant equipment.
Phoenix Contact is a family business headquartered in Blomberg, Germany, within the European Union. According to the vendor, open-source software and apps can be integrated. The product page itself could not be retrieved, so these facts come from search results and a trade-body listing. Licences of bundled open-source components and documentation for the cloud connectors were not confirmed. Organisations that want to limit external access should therefore check which store apps and connections they install, and where the data flows go.