hardware
Where software meets the physical world. Sensors and controllers, remote monitoring of equipment, environments and sites you can't be at, industrial kit that needs telling what to do, and the integration that turns what it all sees into something a person or a system can act on.
What it looks like from where you're sitting
A machine stops at 2am. The first anyone knows is when the morning shift walks in and finds it cold.
The readings exist, on a dial, in a room, that someone has to walk to with a clipboard twice a day.
The equipment vendor's monitoring exists, in their portal, in their format, and it doesn't talk to anything of yours.
What we do about it
Temperature, humidity, door state, power, vibration, run hours. Logged, graphed and alerting the right person when it goes out of range.
Buttons, screens, scanners, lights and relays at the point of work, talking to software over the network. Industrial-grade where it needs to be.
Pulling data from existing equipment and vendor systems into your own dashboards and databases, so it stops living in someone else's portal.
Pick and put walls, light-directed systems, line-side displays and controls, sized to the job and driven by whatever system you already run.
Designed for the network dropping, the power blipping and the sensor dying. Local buffering, watchdogs, and clear states so nobody is guessing.
Installed and commissioned with you, monitored from here, with spares and a plan for when something physical breaks.
For the technical reader
Edge devices run small, resilient services (Go where possible) that buffer locally and sync when connected, so a network outage never loses a reading or a pick. Communication over MQTT or plain HTTPS to a broker or API we control, with device identity and TLS as standard.
Hardware is chosen for the environment, not the demo: industrial controllers and I/O where it's dusty, cold or vibrating; commodity single-board computers where it isn't. Everything is documented with wiring, device inventory and a replacement procedure, because hardware fails in ways software doesn't.
A typical job: a plant room, cold store or workshop with kit that matters and nobody there after six. We fit sensors for the things that fail (temperature, power, door state, run hours), a small local controller that buffers readings if the network drops, and a feed into a dashboard with alerts to whoever is on call. Readings are kept, so when something does go wrong you can see the hours leading up to it, not just the alarm.
Describe the kit, the space and the problem. We'll tell you what we'd put in and what it would connect to.