Industrial IoT Development Services
Industrial IoT software for safe OT-to-IT decisions.
We move selected machine and process data from PLCs, SCADA, historians, and sensors into monitoring, maintenance, or production workflows. The first release uses the lowest authority needed, often read-only, and proves the path on one equipment scope before rollout.
Bring the problem, the current workflow, or the existing code. We reply with a practical next step within one business day.
The brief
Start with what is not working.
Good software decisions begin with the constraint, not a list of features or a preferred technology.
Is production data visible on the plant floor but absent from maintenance or business systems?
Does an integration proposal assume cloud access or control authority the OT team will not approve?
Plain answer
Industrial IoT development moves selected equipment and process data from operational technology into safe monitoring and business workflows. RaftLabs designs approved protocol access, edge buffering, telemetry context, alerts, and one MES or CMMS path without assuming control writes. A focused first release starts at $40,000 and usually takes 12 to 18 weeks.
The sensor knew. The maintenance workflow did not.
The bearing changed. Its signal stayed inside a historian, far from the inspection team. The plant needed a trusted path from an approved OT source to that team, with no unsafe control access hiding inside the integration.
Focused delivery baseline
- starting first release
- $40K
- Priced after OT access is verified
- typical focused timeline
- 12-18 weeks
- One equipment scope and downstream workflow
- preferred initial authority
- Read-only
- Control writes require a separate safety decision
RaftLabs does not currently publish a named industrial-IoT outcome case. These are scope and delivery parameters, not promised plant results. The pilot should measure its own data completeness, alert response, maintenance work, or production decision against an agreed baseline.
Build industrial IoT software when selected OT data must drive a controlled operating workflow.
The first release needs an approved interface, a named operator, and a boundary the plant owner accepts.
The equipment, protocol, network zone, and useful data points can be inspected.
A monitoring, maintenance, or production decision has an accountable owner.
A vendor dashboard cannot support the required context or downstream workflow.
The request assumes PLC or setpoint writes without an approved safety case.
The OT team cannot provide a supported read path or representative test window.
No one can define what should happen after the system raises an event.
Choose the lowest useful authority
| Release | Use it when | Constraint to settle |
|---|---|---|
| Read-only monitoring | Teams need trusted trends, state, and alerts | Tags, timestamps, units, and data quality |
| Workflow integration | An accepted event should create maintenance or production work | Ownership, deduplication, permissions, and failure handling |
| Remote control | A proven command must change equipment state | Interlocks, safe range, rollback, audit, and formal approval |
Scope
What belongs in a focused industrial IoT release
- 01
Approved OT collection
Read selected PLC, SCADA, historian, meter, or sensor data through the interface and network path the plant owner approves. - 02
Edge resilience
Timestamp, validate, buffer, and forward observations while exposing health, storage limits, and recovery state. - 03
Operational context
Map tags to equipment, line, batch, order, or asset identity so the reading has business meaning. - 04
Monitoring and exception workflow
Show trends and state, apply accepted rules, and route exceptions to a named operator with evidence. - 05
Downstream integration
Create or enrich one MES, CMMS, ERP, or reporting record after the event passes defined acceptance rules.
How it works
From OT boundary to controlled plant release
- Phase 101
Define the use case and authority
Choose one line or equipment class, the operator decision, data owner, downstream system, and read or write boundary.
- Phase 202
Verify the OT path
Test controllers, protocols, network zones, sampling, timestamps, buffering, safety limits, and approved integration points.
- Phase 303
Build edge and workflow paths
Implement collection, context, storage, alerts, the operator view, and one MES, CMMS, or reporting integration.
- Phase 404
Pilot without disrupting production
Validate representative operating states, monitor load and gaps, rehearse recovery, and agree support before expansion.
Risk
What the OT integration specification must settle
- Access and change control
- Record the approved tags, interfaces, accounts, network zones, windows, and people allowed to change them.
- Time and data quality
- Define clock source, sampling, units, gaps, duplicates, bad-quality flags, and how late data affects decisions.
- Safety and authority
- Separate observation, recommendation, workflow creation, and control, with explicit approval for each level.
- Operating ownership
- Name who responds to events, maintains edge services, approves rules, and handles downstream outages.
Scope and price
A focused industrial IoT release starts at $40,000.
Begin with one line or equipment class, one or two protocol paths, a monitoring workflow, and one downstream integration.
The first phase proves the approved OT path and operating response before rollout.
Starting investment
Starts at $40,000
A focused first release usually takes 12 to 18 weeks. More protocols, sites, predictive models, or control authority extend the plan.
Authority is explicit
Plant evidence first
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- 01
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- 02
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Location, custody, and movement exceptions for mobile assets.
- 03
IoT Platform Development
Shared device identity, telemetry, fleet operations, APIs, and tenant access.
- 04
Smart Building Software
Installed building systems in facilities and energy workflows.
Work with us
Bring one equipment scope and the decision its data should support.
Share the controllers, protocols, network boundary, users, downstream system, and acceptable authority. We will identify the smallest safe plant release.
- Scope and cost agreed before work starts. No surprises. No obligation.
- Working prototype within 3 weeks of kickoff.
- Pay by milestone. You see progress before each invoice.
- 60-day post-launch warranty. Bug fixes, UI tweaks, and deployment support. No retainer.
- All conversations are NDA-protected.
Common questions
We first verify the interface the installed system actually exposes. The path may use OPC-UA, Modbus TCP or RTU, an approved historian replica, or a vendor gateway. The first release reads only the agreed tags and respects the OT network zones and maintenance windows.
Usually yes when safety, warranties, change control, interlocks, or responsibility for commands are unresolved. Read-only monitoring can still prove data quality, alert usefulness, and downstream workflow value. Add control only after the plant owner approves safe ranges, rollback, audit, and operator ownership.
An approved edge service can collect, timestamp, validate, and buffer data locally, then forward it when the upstream path returns. The design must define storage limits, duplicate handling, clock drift, health monitoring, and what the local workflow can do without cloud access.
Yes. An accepted event can create or enrich a CMMS, MES, or ERP record when the target system exposes a supported interface. The specification defines thresholds, deduplication, ownership, required context, and what happens when the downstream system is unavailable.
A focused release starts at $40,000 and usually takes 12 to 18 weeks. It covers one line or equipment class, one or two protocol paths, edge or server ingestion, a monitoring workflow, and one downstream integration. More protocols, sites, control writes, or predictive models increase scope.