Industrial IoT consulting — sensor to boardroom, no platform to protect.
Industrial IoT consulting that ops and IT can both own: device fleets, edge gateways, MQTT/LoRaWAN/NB-IoT and OT security — no reseller margin, no product lock-in.
Devices speak. The edge thinks. The cloud decides.
The architectural pattern is universal. The engineering choices inside each layer determine whether the system ships, scales, and survives audit.
Layer 1 · Devices & sensors
Temperature, humidity, vibration, pressure, flow, gas, current, vision, location. Silicon from STM, Bosch Sensortec, TE Connectivity, Honeywell, NXP, Nordic, Espressif, u-blox, Quectel, Sierra Wireless.
Layer 2 · Edge gateways
Protocol translation (Modbus, OPC UA, BACnet, KNX → MQTT / AMQP), edge inference, OT/IT segmentation, store-and-forward, fleet management. Built on Linux IoT, Azure IoT Edge, AWS Greengrass, Balena, or BalenaOS.
Layer 3 · Platform & cloud
Azure IoT Hub, AWS IoT Core, Google Cloud IoT, ThingsBoard, Cumulocity (Software AG), PTC ThingWorx, Siemens MindSphere — benchmarked against your data-residency, cost, and integration needs.
Right radio. Right protocol. Right place.
BLE 5.x · BLE Mesh · Wi-Fi 6/7
Personal-area and dense-fleet sensors. BLE Mesh for large-scale lighting and occupancy estates; Wi-Fi 6E for high-bandwidth video and AGV uplinks.
Zigbee · Thread · Matter
Building automation, smart workplace, and the cross-vendor Matter standard for next-gen interoperability.
LoRaWAN · Sigfox · NB-IoT · LTE-M
Wide-area sensor fleets — utility metering, agricultural sensors, asset trackers, cold-chain. Semtech LoRa, The Things Industries, MachineQ, UnaBiz, Helium.
Modbus · OPC UA · PROFINET · EtherCAT
Industrial protocol gateways into PLCs, SCADA, and DCS — OPC UA as the common semantic layer for ISA-95 / Purdue Model integration.
MQTT 5 · AMQP · CoAP · gRPC
Pub/sub backbone for telemetry, with TLS, OAuth2, and broker selection (HiveMQ, EMQX, Mosquitto, RabbitMQ) tuned to scale and latency.
Iridium · Swarm · Astrocast · Skylo
Global, no-coverage-required IoT for maritime, aviation, mining, oil and gas, and remote infrastructure.
OT/IT convergence done safely.
IIoT programmes fail audit, not deployment. TRACIO designs to IEC 62443 (industrial cybersecurity) from day one —
zero-trust device identity, hardware secure elements (TPM 2.0), signed firmware with secure boot, network segmentation aligned to Purdue, encrypted transport, and SIEM integration.
- IEC 62443-2-1 / -2-4 / -3-3 / -4-1 awareness
- NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SOC 2 alignment
- Purdue Model network segmentation
- HSM, TPM 2.0, secure boot, signed firmware
- Zero-trust device identity with X.509 / SPIFFE
- SIEM integration (Splunk, Sentinel, Chronicle)
- GDPR / HIPAA / 21 CFR Part 11 data flows
Independent across every major IIoT platform.
Hyperscaler IoT
Azure IoT Hub + IoT Edge + Time Series Insights, AWS IoT Core + Greengrass + SiteWise + TwinMaker, Google Cloud IoT Core (legacy) + Pub/Sub.
Industrial IoT platforms
Siemens MindSphere / Insights Hub, PTC ThingWorx, GE Predix legacy, Software AG Cumulocity, IBM Watson IoT, SAP Leonardo.
Open / self-hosted
ThingsBoard, Eclipse Hono, Mainflux, Apache Kura, Eclipse Kapua, Balena fleet OS.
Connectivity platforms
The Things Industries, MachineQ (Comcast), Senet, Helium, Soracom, Hologram, EMnify, 1NCE.
Time-series & observability
InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, QuestDB, Prometheus, Grafana Mimir, ClickHouse for high-cardinality telemetry.
Device management
Microsoft DPS, AWS Device Management, Balena Cloud, Mender.io, Foundries.io, Cloudflare IoT.
Frequently asked questions.
What does industrial IoT consulting with TRACIO cover?
Vendor-neutral architecture and integration across the sensor, gateway, edge, and cloud layers - connecting devices to decisions.
Do you sell IoT platforms?
No. We select and integrate the right platform for your needs, independent of any vendor.
Can you connect legacy equipment?
Yes - retrofitting sensors and bridging legacy OT to modern IoT is a common part of our work.
How do you handle OT security?
Through our OT cybersecurity practice - IEC 62443-aligned zoning, monitoring, and hardened remote access.
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