Machines

Industrial machines, AMRs and AGVs, drones, vehicles, construction and agricultural machines, reached over the buses they already speak.

A machine cell with sensors reporting to Ipnops
01What you do
A heavy machine with sensor nodes on the boom

Read first, then act through the gate.

A machine on a site runs on a controller and a bus. Ipnops reads it observe-only, signs what it reads, and admits readings into the machine's twin. Setpoints go back only after the twin and the declared purpose check them, inside limits, with approval.

02How Ipnops connects
Drives on a motion bus read passively

The route.

Each bus has an adapter that decodes with a declared set of channels, each with a kind, a unit, a range and a rate.

Industrial server

OPC UA variables browsed, read and subscribed; never written, never called.

Motion and vehicle buses

EtherCAT process data tapped passively; SocketCAN signals received and decoded by declared bit position.

Registers and brokers

Modbus read functions only; MQTT topics subscribed.

03Live today
A vehicle bus decoded by an observe-only adapter
Adapters

OPC UA, EtherCAT, SocketCAN, Modbus and MQTT, each run against a software counterpart of its bus.

Supported
System classes

Process machine, pump and valve system, mobile platform, articulated robot.

Supported
Mechanical power

A derived signal from one torque and one angular velocity of the same shaft.

Supported
Command gate

Magnitude, rate, acceleration and duration limits; every command expires.

Supported
Approval levels

Observe-only, shadow, approved, per tenant and system class; approved actuation runs for a test tenant.

Supported
04Available on request
A top-down view of an inspection drone with four rotors

Delivered per deployment.

Scoped with your machines, buses, sites and approval policy.

Your buses

Attaching an adapter to a controller, drive or vehicle on your site.

Available on request
Drones and road vehicles

Routes over the vehicle bus and message broker.

Available on request
Fleet state

AMR and AGV fleets over robot middleware.

Available on request

Tell us what you want to connect.

Name the machine, bus or program. We scope the twin, the integration and the approval path with you.