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How we build the data path.

Code-level trade-offs, protocol choices, and edge-to-cloud patterns, written for engineers integrating gateways and telemetry, not for slide decks.

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BMS, 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.

Jun 3, 20267 min read
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CMMS 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.

Jun 3, 20266 min read
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Edge 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.

Jun 3, 20266 min read
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NB-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.

Jun 3, 20267 min read
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M2M 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.

Jun 3, 20266 min read
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Router 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.

Jun 3, 20266 min read
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What 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.

Jun 3, 20266 min read
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Building 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.

Mar 8, 202517 min read
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OTA 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.

Mar 1, 202516 min read
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From 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.

Feb 15, 202520 min read
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How 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.

Jan 22, 202515 min read

Build your industrial telemetry solution.

Discuss embedded gateway delivery, telemetry pipelines, and customer-owned IP with our team.