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Industrial IoT · IIoT · Sensor Fleet

From the sensor to the boardroom. End-to-end IIoT architecture.

TRACIO designs and delivers production-grade IIoT architectures — from the silicon on the floor to the platform in the cloud. Connectivity, edge compute, sensor fusion, security to IEC 62443, and integration with the enterprise systems your business already runs on.

3-tier
Device · Edge · Cloud
IEC 62443
Cyber by design
OT & IT
Purdue-aligned
Industrial IoT reference architecture across device, edge, and cloud layers
The three layers of every IIoT system

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.

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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.

Connectivity

Right radio. Right protocol. Right place.

SHORT RANGE

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.

MID RANGE

Zigbee · Thread · Matter

Building automation, smart workplace, and the cross-vendor Matter standard for next-gen interoperability.

LONG RANGE

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.

FIELDBUS & OT

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.

MESSAGING

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.

SATELLITE / SPACE

Iridium · Swarm · Astrocast · Skylo

Global, no-coverage-required IoT for maritime, aviation, mining, oil and gas, and remote infrastructure.

Cybersecurity by design

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
Platforms

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.

Ready to architect the IIoT layer?

30 minutes on protocols, platforms, and security.

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