Connectivity and telemetry for plant, field and infrastructure
Industrial IoT
We connect industrial assets that were never designed to be connected — legacy PLCs, meters, sensors, pumps and remote plant — and get their data into systems that can act on it, over networks that survive the conditions those assets live in.
Manufacturing, utilities, energy, water, transport and infrastructure operators connecting field and plant assets.
- Legacy
- equipment, no rip and replace
- Edge
- processing before backhaul
- OT
- segmented from IT by design
The data exists. It just never leaves the cabinet.
Industrial equipment has been generating useful telemetry for decades, over serial protocols, into local panels that nobody reads. Meanwhile the maintenance budget goes on scheduled servicing and emergency call-outs, because there is no way to know which asset actually needs attention.
The asset has been reporting a fault for six months. Nothing was listening.
What it costs you today
- Equipment that predates IP by twenty years
- Sites where fixed-line connectivity does not exist
- A control network that must never be exposed to the internet
- Maintenance by calendar rather than by condition
How we work
The principles that shape the engagement, and why they are worth holding to.
Retrofit, do not rip out
A working production line is not a candidate for replacement because it speaks the wrong protocol. We put a gateway in front of what is there, translate at the edge, and leave the process control untouched.
Assume the link will fail
Remote sites lose connectivity — that is the normal case, not the exception. Edge nodes buffer locally, keep operating without the cloud, and forward the backlog when the link returns, so you get history rather than a gap in the record.
The control network stays a control network
IT and OT convergence is a security problem before it is an engineering one. We design the boundary explicitly — segmentation, controlled data flow, no inbound path to the process network — so telemetry leaves without exposing anything.
Maintenance by condition, not by calendar
The point of the telemetry is to change what the maintenance team does. We build the pipeline through to the work order, so a vibration trend or a temperature drift raises a job rather than a chart nobody opens.
What we deliver
- Protocol gateways for Modbus, OPC UA, BACnet, DNP3 and serial
- Retrofit connectivity for equipment with no network interface
- Edge computing: filter, aggregate and alarm before backhaul
- Resilient cellular and bonded connectivity for remote sites
- Store-and-forward buffering across connectivity outages
- IT and OT segmentation with unidirectional data flow options
- Condition monitoring and predictive maintenance pipelines
- Remote diagnostics and secure remote access for engineers
- Integration into SCADA, historian, CMMS and ERP systems
- Environmental and power monitoring for unmanned sites
Capabilities in full
The detail behind each area, so you can see whether we cover what you need.
Connecting the asset
- Modbus RTU and TCP, OPC UA, BACnet, DNP3, MQTT
- Serial, RS-485 and legacy fieldbus interfacing
- Protocol translation and data normalisation
- Sensor retrofit for unmonitored equipment
- Metering and sub-metering integration
- Power, environmental and door monitoring
- Panel and cabinet integration
- Intrinsically safe and hazardous-area considerations
Edge and connectivity
- Edge compute for filtering and local alarming
- Store-and-forward across outages
- Bonded cellular and multi-WAN backhaul
- Local operation when the cloud is unreachable
- Time synchronisation and data ordering
- Bandwidth and data-cost optimisation
- Fanless and DIN-rail hardware selection
- Remote firmware and configuration management
Security and integration
- IT and OT network segmentation design
- Controlled, outbound-only data paths
- Certificate-based device identity
- Secure remote access for maintenance engineers
- Historian, SCADA and CMMS integration
- ERP and work-order system integration
- Condition monitoring and anomaly detection
- Audit logging and change control
How we engage
Three common shapes. We will scope to whichever fits, or to something else entirely.
Connectivity assessment
A survey of what your assets already emit, what it would take to collect it, and what it is worth — before any hardware is bought.
Pilot site
One line or one site instrumented end to end, so the business case is proven on real data before an estate-wide rollout.
Estate rollout
Repeatable deployment across sites, with remote management so the estate does not become a maintenance burden of its own.
Other services
Most engagements draw on more than one of these.
Embedded Software Development
Firmware, drivers and device stacks that ship
ExploreWiFi and IoT
Wireless design, IoT integration and custom applications
ExploreDevOps
Build, test and release pipelines for network software
ExploreTraining and Consulting
Standards expertise, architecture review and team enablement
ExploreCommon questions
Will this touch our control system?
No. The standard design reads from the control network without writing to it, and there is no inbound path from the outside. Where write access is genuinely required, it is an explicit, separately reviewed decision rather than a default.
Our equipment is thirty years old. Is it a candidate?
Usually yes. Age is less of an obstacle than people expect — most industrial equipment exposes something over serial, and where it exposes nothing, a retrofit sensor often gets you the signal that matters.
How does this relate to HyperWAN?
HyperWAN is frequently the connectivity layer underneath: bonded cellular for sites with no fixed line, sub-second failover, and segmented traffic so the OT path stays isolated. The services engagement designs it; the platform runs it.
Talk to us about Industrial IoT
A scoping conversation with an engineer, not a sales call. If we are not the right fit, we will tell you.