- Industrial automation depends on three pillars working together: seamless equipment connectivity, reliable edge-level control and intelligence, and actionable operational data
- Legacy infrastructure, fragmented systems, and mixed communication protocols often make all three difficult and costly to achieve at once
Case Studies
Scalable Edge Gateway for Smart Factories
26 Jun 2026Cost-effective industrial edge gateway for equipment integration, preventive maintenance, and AMR/AGV control.
Overview
ChallengesThe main challenges were
- Modern production environments run mixed generations of machines, proprietary interfaces, and diverse industrial protocols side by side, often with limited IT resources to manage the complexity
- Mobile systems such as AMRs and AGVs add a further requirement — real-time control and robust wireless communication — on top of everything the fixed equipment already needs
ObjectivesThe system needed to
- Provide rich I/O connectivity
- protocol integration
- stable local processing
- preventive-maintenance support for fixed machine-side equipment
- plus compact low-power operation extended to mobile AMR/AGV platforms
Solution DeliveredThe solution included
- A compact industrial edge gateway was deployed as the integration hub between legacy machines, sensors, modern control systems, and higher-level factory systems, translating between whatever protocol each piece of equipment already spoke rather than requiring the equipment to be replaced
- It supports local analytics for preventive maintenance directly on the gateway, and can scale up toward edge AI workloads with an optional accelerator module if the factory's needs grow
- For mobile platforms specifically, the same gateway family adds CAN bus, LTE/GPS expansion, smart ignition control, and wide DC input — the specific mix of features AMR and AGV control needs that a fixed-installation gateway typically doesn't offer
Conclusion
Challenges many factories face - connecting old and new machines, adding preventive maintenance, and supporting mobile automation without overbuilding the edge layer.
