Offline-first connected devices
Devices that keep every reading when coverage drops: local buffering on SD card, ordered replay on reconnect, and connectivity that fails over between Wi-Fi and cellular.
In Telematics →Innovation
Research that ends up in products
We invest in a few technical problems we meet again and again, and turn what we learn into reusable building blocks for our products and our clients.
Focus areas
What we are working on
Pluggable industrial protocols
A layered gateway firmware where protocols are components: Modbus RTU and TCP to MQTT today, with a common interface for adding more and support for several cloud brokers.
In Inplux →Model-based systems engineering
Systems described as SysML v2 models that stay in sync with text, diagrams and tables, and that link requirements to verification.
In Blueprint →Safe field updates
Bootloaders and update protocols that let devices in the field receive new firmware without a site visit and recover if an update fails.
In Telematics →Generative AI inside apps
AI that does a specific job inside a product — writing recipe details or product descriptions — with the provider and model configurable on the server.
In Cuisina →AI for agriculture
Research into crop vision, precision irrigation and AI-run vertical farms for deserts and cold climates, focused on water and energy per kilogram.
In InCrop →Our approach
How we innovate
Start from a real problem
Every R&D theme comes from an issue seen in a product or a client project.
Write it down
Architecture decisions, protocols and lessons are recorded so they outlive the project.
Prototype early
Simulators and local test stacks let us try ideas before hardware or customers are involved.
Reuse what works
Proven parts become shared components across products.
Be honest about trade-offs
Our white papers state costs and limits, not just benefits.
Publish
We share our thinking in white papers for clients and partners.
White papers
Read our research
White paper
Telematics
Store and Forward: Vehicle Telematics That Survives Poor Coverage
How splitting vehicle-bus and connectivity duties across two controllers, with local buffering and safe updates, keeps vehicle data complete.
- Project: Telematics (1st gen) · 2020
- Version 1.0
White paper
SCADA
Alarms Operators Can Trust: Alarm Management for Modern SCADA
Alarm philosophy, rationalisation, operator-centred design, performance measures and security for SCADA.
- Project: Inplux SCADA · 2022
- Version 1.0
White paper
Logistics
Paperless Freight: Digital Consignment Notes, Dangerous Goods and Compliance
Moving road freight from paper to digital within the CMR, e-CMR, eFTI, ADR and GDPR frameworks.
- Project: CETAIN · 2023
- Version 1.0