S7-node/DataBase

Yes of course this is possible I actually do this myself. In the PLC is ladder that buffers sensor data in a FIFO and presents it for collection in one fixed/known memory area that node-red polls. When future sensors are added to the PLC, we simply add a line of ladder to push its value into the the FIFO buffer and the existing framework collects this data.

This is a slightly more descriptive post here...