Embedded & IoT
Industrial IoT for machines that were never meant to talk to software
Retrofit sensors and gateways onto the equipment you already run, and turn its signals into alerts, OEE and maintenance plans.
- Machines and their controllers
- What a stoppage costs
- Network on the floor
- Who acts on alerts
- Retrofit sensing: vibration, temperature, power, flow
- PLC, Modbus, OPC UA and MQTT integration
- Edge gateways with offline buffering
- Condition monitoring and predictive maintenance
- OEE and energy dashboards
- Custom hardware when nothing off the shelf fits
- Interfaces
- Embedded C
- RTOS
- Modbus
- OPC UA
- MQTT
- GCP
- ThingsX Console
- Applies to
- Discrete plants · Process plants · Utilities
- Engagement
- Line pilot · Plant rollout
In plain words
We add sensors to the machines you already own, so you can see when they stop, slow down or are about to fail, without replacing them.
- Who it's for
- Factories and plants with older machines and little live data from the floor.
- How to start
- Retrofit one line or a few machines and measure the difference.
Words on this page, explained
- PLC:
- The industrial controller that runs a machine on the factory floor.
- Gateway:
- A small box on the ceiling or wall that relays messages between devices and the cloud.
- MQTT:
- A lightweight way for thousands of devices to send small messages to the cloud reliably.
- Edge AI:
- AI that runs on the device or camera itself, so video and data don't have to leave your site.
Plants and warehouses are full of machines that were never meant to talk to software. We connect them: retrofit sensors, PLC and Modbus integration, and gateways that keep working when the network doesn't. Data lands in the ThingsX platform or your own historian, with dashboards for the floor and reports for management. We design the hardware too, so when an off-the-shelf sensor doesn't fit, we build one that does.
Industrial IoT · predictive maintenance
Hear a machine ask for help, weeks early.
A small sensor on the motor feels its vibration. When a bearing starts to wear, the pattern changes long before anything breaks, and the right person gets a job card.
Line 2 · Motor 04 · vibration
Sensor (yellow) clips onto the motor. No wiring into your controls.
Vibration
1.4mm/s
Time to failure
90+ days
Healthy. Running smoothly. Nothing to do.
What you’re seeing: a motor’s vibration, read thousands of times a second. Drag bearing wear to the right and watch the system book maintenance long before the motor fails, so the line never stops by surprise.
For engineers
Tri-axis accelerometer on the bearing housing; the edge module computes velocity RMS and an envelope spectrum to pick out bearing-defect frequencies, then compares them with ISO 10816-style zones and the machine's own baseline. Alerts open work orders in your CMMS or ERP over REST or MQTT.
Healthy. Running smoothly. Nothing to do.
Why teams call us
- 01
Older machines with no data
Retrofit sensors and gateways bring them online without replacing them.
- 02
Unplanned downtime
Vibration, temperature and current trends warn you before a failure.
How we work
From first workshop to running in production.
- STEP 01
Line walk
Machines, protocols, network and the costliest problems.
- STEP 02
Retrofit pilot
Sensors and gateways on one line, with a live dashboard.
- STEP 03
Integrate
MES, ERP and maintenance systems.
- STEP 04
Scale
Rollout playbook, alert tuning and operator training.
What you get
Deliverables, not slideware.
- Retrofit kits
- Sensors, gateways and enclosures
- Edge gateway software
- Protocol adapters and offline buffering
- Dashboards and alerts
- OEE, energy and condition monitoring
Technology
No stack limits. Right tool for the problem.
Protocols
Edge
Platform
Need something not listed? We hire for it or bring in a specialist. The problem picks the stack.
Visibility on every machine
Old or new
Maintenance on condition
Not on the calendar
Industrial IoT: common questions
Do you need to stop the line?
Rarely. Most retrofits clamp on or tap existing signals during planned windows.
Engagement models
Ways to work with us
Line pilot
instrument one line and show the data in 4–6 weeks
Plant rollout
devices, integration and support across sites
Where this sits in the stack
Six blocks on one die. One team across all of them.
We work across .NET, C, C++, MFC, Go, Java, Python, Node.js, React and Spark, on GCP, AWS and Azure, plus embedded C on RTOS and embedded Linux. Pick a block to see where it fits.
Hover, tap or tab through the blocks. Lit copper shows which blocks work together.
Block · Firmware
Code that runs on the device itself.
- Embedded C
- C++
- RTOS
- Embedded Linux
- Board bring-up and drivers
- Low-power radio stacks and secure wireless
- Secure boot and over-the-air updates
- Power budgets for coin-cell devices
Where it shows up
- Embedded & IoT
- Industrial IoT (this page)
- Product development
Scope your Industrial IoT project
Tell us the problem, the constraints and the deadline. A senior engineer replies within one business day.