FairCom Edge puts the “data” in “data-driven decision making.”
You’ve got your production line going strong. Sensors are collecting data, giving your engineers information on temperature, humidity, and everyone’s favorite, vibration levels. But what’s next? While most manufacturers are gathering factory data, it’s often underutilized. Whether from silos, disparate data formats, or subpar data integrity, the end result is the same: Missed efficiency gains, reactive maintenance efforts, and, ultimately, revenue loss.
Enter FairCom Edge. This integration software consolidates and standardizes Industrial IoT data across systems, enabling manufacturers to quickly evolve from simple data collection to optimizing factory processes company-wide.
The alternative leaves a lot of money on the table. Factories that ignore their data often see 20% less production output than their smart factory peers. Having data that’s accessible, contextualized, and actionable is crucial to competing in today’s markets.
FairCom Edge delivers exactly that.
From Disconnected Data to Integrated IoT Ecosystem
No one wants to manage hundreds of disparate data sources. Even if the data lives under a single umbrella, PLCs, machines, enterprise applications, and sensors all have their own preferred data types. Whether because of data silos or disparate formats, unusable data is dead weight to your factory operations.
FairCom Edge brings all that data together.
Not only does it have out-of-the-box support for the most common industrial protocols (think Modbus, MQTT, OPC UA, etc.), it also includes REST and SQL connectors. Whether your data originates on the factory floor or in the cloud, it can be ingested, normalized, and delivered where it’s needed.
This unified approach is crucial. Scalable operations are only possible through standardization.
FairCom Edge allows you to create a Unified Namespace throughout your factory systems. By centralizing data in a singular broker, you create a single source of truth for your operations. And by enabling data transformation and enrichment, you ensure all your teams can access data in their preferred format.
How do IT teams prefer to work with data? Generally through SQL tables. However, JSON documents are much more readable, especially for those with a less technical background. FairCom Edge includes automated transformation pipelines, letting you seamlessly move between JSON and relational tables.
It also allows standardization across tag names, units, and data types, with the ability to modify the metadata as needed. This ensures that no matter where the data goes, no matter who needs it, FairCom Edge has everything you need to start turning collected data into actionable insights.
Enrich data to drive better business decisions
Why is it so important to add tags and standardize values? Because raw data doesn’t drive outcomes; context does.
FairCom Edge enhances your incoming data in real time, increasing both usability and value across industrial environments. There are so many ways you can manipulate your data:
- Tag and structure into JSON or table formats
- Convert from binary to meaningful values
- Standardize across systems and locations
- Enrich with contextual information such as location, status, or troubleshooting logs
- Process with OEE or unit calculations and conversions
By adding enrichment, your data is already halfway to becoming actionable intelligence.
Deliver data where it creates value
There’s no point in collecting data if it sits in an unreadable format on an inaccessible machine. Idle data benefits no one (except your competitors). FairCom Edge pushes data out to the systems that need it the most.
By combining an embedded database, MQTT broker, REST APIs, and full SQL support, FairCom Edge lets you seamlessly deliver data across:
- Factory systems and applications
- Enterprise IT infrastructure
- Cloud platforms for AI, ML, and analytics
- Visualization tools like Power BI, Tableau, and other BI solutions
In addition, FairCom Edge can receive MQTT messages, meaning you can create powerful, closed-loop optimization. Data goes out, insights flow in.
Secure, Reliable Data for Industrial Environments
Industrial IoT data can be mission-critical, and must be protected as such.
FairCom Edge comes with built-in, FIPS-verified encryption for data in transit and at rest, along with certificate-based security management for advanced protection. This keeps your sensitive operational data secure across all environments. In addition, Edge can be deployed at the edge or in the cloud, letting you keep your most important data in a secure, closed network on-premises when needed.
Of course, safe data only gets you so far. It also needs to be reliably stored. FairCom Edge’s “lights-out” architecture keeps data flowing without constant oversight. The built-in database ensures data is persistently stored. Need to deliver MQTT messages to a sensor that’s gone offline? Our broker will deliver all subscribed messages missed during a blackout, in the order they were received.
One Platform. Complete Data Control.
Manufacturing facilities aren’t exactly known for their simplicity. From the multitude of machines and sensors to the software and equipment running it, there’s already more than enough complexity.
FairCom Edge cuts down on that bloat by providing multiple functions through a single, unified executable:
- Industrial Connectors
- SQL/JSON Database
- MQTT Broker
- REST APIs
- JavaScript V8 Transformation Engine
- Application Server
- Browser-Based Management Tools
Simplify your production line without limiting capability with our all-in-one architecture.
The bottom line: Put your data to work.
Your factory already generates tons of data. Start using it. Standardize IoT data into a singular format and store it on-site for safe keeping. Then, push data out for analysis. Whether you’re using custom-built predictive maintenance AI or out-of-the-box analytics software, your insights will only be as good as the quality of the data feeding into it.
With FairCom Edge, you can keep the silos you need and break down what you don’t. Bring all your factory data under a single umbrella, and then use the embedded MQTT broker to send out data streams as needed. By collecting, storing, transforming, and delivering Industrial IoT data, you’ll soon have everything you need to bring your operations to new heights.
Want to see how easy it can be? Our quickstart tutorial shows you how to connect to a sensor and start collecting data in minutes. Or if you’d rather learn hands-on, try our browser-based sandbox to explore more of FairCom Edge.
