Services06 · IOT
Industrial IoT development, from sensors to cloud
Your machines reporting how they're doing — live, before anyone walks the floor.
Some floors have no data at all: machine status lives on clipboards and in the memory of whoever walked past last. Others have modern PLCs full of tags nobody reads. This seat hires on its own — from a single instrumented machine to a plant-wide rollout — and when a machine has nothing to say, the electronics seat builds the sensor that gives it a voice.
From PLC tags to morning-meeting numbers
Read-only where possible, retrofit where necessary — visibility without touching how the floor runs.
PLC & machine connectivity
OPC UA connections to plant-floor PLCs and legacy controllers — read-only taps that collect without interfering with production.
Retrofit sensing
Current clamps, vibration, temperature, and cycle counting for machines built before data was a word — designed by the same bench that does our PCB work.
Live telemetry & dashboards
Time-series pipelines through InfluxDB and Grafana: live boards for the floor, rollups for the office, history for the arguments.
Alerting & escalation
Alerts that reach the team where they already work — tuned so the third alarm still means something.
Uptime & production analytics
Run rates, downtime reasons, and shift comparisons — numbers solid enough to survive the morning meeting.
Edge collection
Collectors that run on the floor, buffer through network outages, and sync when the link returns — no data holes when the Wi-Fi blinks.
Business-system integration
Telemetry that meets the ERP: jobs, counts, and schedules matched to what the machines actually did.
Deployment & support
Installed on real floors around real schedules, documented, monitored, and maintained — a system your team owns, not a science project.
How a floor comes online
- 01
Floor walk
An inventory of machines, controllers, and what data already exists — on site or over a video call with whoever knows the floor best.
- 02
First machine
One machine instrumented end to end, with a live dashboard to judge us by — before you commit to the rest of the floor.
- 03
Rollout
The remaining machines brought on line by priority, with dashboards shaped per role — operator, supervisor, office.
- 04
Alerting & analytics
Thresholds, notifications, and the reports the morning meeting actually uses.
- 05
Support
Monitoring, new machines added as they arrive, and documentation that outlives everyone's job changes.
Proof from the bench
Machine telemetry for a manufacturer
Plant-floor data collection inside a steel-and-tubing manufacturer's operations: OPC UA connections to production machinery, live telemetry through InfluxDB and Grafana, and alerting that reaches the team where they already work — every day, without interrupting production.
- OPC UA
- Live dashboards
- Alerting
Where you might be starting
No data at all
Machine status lives on clipboards and walkarounds. You want to see the floor without walking it.
Data trapped in machines
The PLCs know everything and tell no one. The tags exist; nobody has connected them to a screen worth watching.
Old iron, no sensors
Thirty-year-old machines that have never spoken. Retrofit sensing gives them a voice without touching their controls.
A pilot that stalled
A dashboard demo exists somewhere — the vendor left, the floor never adopted it. We audit what's there and finish the job.
The floor is one layer of one system
Machine data is most valuable when it meets the rest of the operation — the ERP, the paperwork, the people. The same bench that wires the floor builds the AI layer that reasons over it and the custom sensors that extend it, so nothing gets lost between vendors.
Fair questions
Will connecting to our machines interrupt production?
No — connections are read-only wherever possible, and installation is scheduled around your shifts. The floor keeps running; it just starts reporting.
What does machine monitoring cost?
The first machine is a bounded, fixed-scope engagement — you get a live dashboard to judge before committing further. After that it's priced per machine and per system connected, not as a plant-wide contract you have to sign blind.
Our machines are decades old — can they even report?
Yes. Machines without controllers get retrofit sensing — current draw, vibration, temperature, cycle counts — which is exactly why this studio keeps an electronics seat. Age is a wiring problem, not a dead end.
Does our data have to go to the cloud?
No. The stack can run entirely on your network, in the cloud, or split between the two. Remote access is optional and controlled — your IT keeps the keys.
We already have SCADA / an MES — is this redundant?
We integrate rather than replace. Most floors we see have islands: a SCADA here, spreadsheets there, and no live picture across them. The value is in connecting what exists and filling the gaps.
Who maintains it after installation?
The system is documented and monitored, and we stay with it — adding machines, tuning alerts, and keeping it healthy. It's built for your team to own, with us on call rather than on retainer.
Want to see your floor live?
Tell us what runs on your floor and what you wish you knew about it. We reply within one business day with an honest read — and the first machine is a small commitment, not a leap.
Based in New Jersey — on-site across the NJ–NYC–Philadelphia corridor, remote everywhere else.
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