What we've learned shipping industrial telemetry.
Engineering notes, field reports, and practical takes on open architecture and edge connectivity.
Engineering notesBMS, GTB, CVC and the Décret BACS: A Building Data Guide
What BMS, GTB, GTC and CVC mean, what the French Décret BACS requires, and how to get building data out of a closed head-end with open edge connectivity.
Engineering notesCMMS vs EAM: Connecting Machine Data to Maintenance Software
What CMMS and EAM software actually do, how they differ, and how runtime hours and fault codes from the edge turn either one from reactive guesswork into planned maintenance.
Engineering notesEdge Computing for Industrial IoT
Where computation should sit between a machine and the cloud: how latency, bandwidth cost, and offline resilience push processing onto the gateway, and what that buys you.
Engineering notesNB-IoT vs LTE-M vs LoRaWAN vs Sigfox for Industrial IoT
A practical comparison of the main LPWAN technologies: range, power, data rate, mobility, and cost, with a decision guide for choosing one for industrial deployments.
Engineering notesM2M vs IoT: Connectivity, SIMs and Gateways
What machine-to-machine (M2M) means, how it differs from IoT, and why the connectivity layer (SIMs and gateways) and the application layer have to be designed together.
Engineering notesRouter vs Gateway in Industrial IoT: What to Use and When
Router, IoT gateway, protocol gateway, or edge computer? What each device actually does, how their roles overlap, and a plain decision guide for industrial connectivity.
Engineering notesWhat Is SCADA and What Is an RTU?
A plain guide to SCADA and the RTU: what each one is, how the sensor-to-PLC-to-RTU-to-SCADA chain fits together, and where an open edge gateway acts as a modern RTU.
From the fieldCold Chain Telemetry: Open Owasys Linux Gateway
How a refrigerated logistics fleet replaced four vendor-locked devices per trailer with one Owasys open Linux gateway running custom embedded software that unifies Carrier and Thermo King reefer protocols on the same board, cutting cloud ingestion by 70% and SIM spend by 40%.
Case studyGateway Replacement on Feed Tanker Trailers: Traceability on Open Linux
A European builder of livestock feed tanker trailers replaced an off-the-shelf tracker with an Owasys open Linux gateway that records unloading, cleaning, tire disinfection, route and conveyor health.
From the fieldCrane Retrofit with an OEM Sensor Partnership
Retrofitting a mobile crane fleet with edge telemetry alongside a sensor OEM: gateway hardware for harsh environments, on-board protocol normalization, and a clean handoff into the operator's own fleet platform.
From the fieldConcrete Truck Monitoring
Edge telemetry for concrete delivery fleets: drum rotation, hydraulic pressure, GPS, water-tank usage, and ambient conditions per truck, with MQTT to an operator-hosted broker. Multi-site retrofit with an ISO 15143-3 (AEMP 2.0) adapter.
Case studyHVAC Telemetry Across a Multi-Site Facilities Estate
A multi-site facilities operator brought HVAC energy, fault and runtime data from BACnet/IP, Modbus RTU and closed OEM controllers into one normalized pipeline they own, without replacing a single existing building system.
Case studyCrane Monitoring Retrofit for a Mixed Mobile Fleet
A crane rental operator gained one comparable load, tilt, and utilization feed across a mixed fleet by retrofitting an open Linux telemetry stack they fully own, with no OEM telematics product and no cloud silo in the path.
Engineering notesBuilding Data-Sovereign IoT Platforms in Europe
How to keep machine data under EU jurisdiction and customer control: residency at the storage layer, EU-hosted MQTT brokers, gateway-side encryption, and the Data Act portability rights that procurement now asks about.
Engineering notesOTA Updates for Industrial Gateways: Best Practices
Secure, reliable OTA firmware updates for industrial gateways: rollback strategies, delta updates, signing pipelines, and deployment patterns for production fleet environments.
BlogAvoiding Vendor Lock-In in Industrial IoT
How to keep ownership of your industrial telematics stack: open protocols, customer-owned gateway code, and architecture decisions that let you swap any layer without a rebuild.
Engineering notesFrom CAN Bus to Cloud: A Practical Telematics Architecture
How a single signal travels from a CAN frame on the drivetrain to a row in the cloud, and the decisions that matter at each hop: J1939 decoding, edge filtering, MQTT transport, and store-and-forward.
BlogWhy IP Ownership Matters in Industrial IoT Projects
In industrial IoT, owning your gateway software is a strategic asset, not a technical footnote. It decides your roadmap, your margins, and what your company is worth when someone looks closely.
BlogEU Data Act: What It Means for IoT System Architects
How the EU Data Act changes industrial telematics architecture: user access to device-generated data, portability between providers, and the design choices that keep you compliant without a vendor's permission.
Engineering notesHow to Retrofit Industrial Machines for Telematics
A field guide to adding telematics to machines that were never designed for it: reading the data that exists, adding sensors for the data that does not, and surviving the install on a working asset.
BlogOpen vs Closed IoT Gateways for OEMs
Open embedded Linux gateways or a proprietary platform? For OEMs, the choice decides who controls the field-data layer, and how expensive it is to change course later.
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