Kepware

But as you mentioned earlier, if there's a technologist involved, they'll see the value in skipping that step and really taking it to the higher level.

Yeah, I've also seen some that deploy it using like Kepware in the middle as another product.

Kepware is very common for OPC UA connectivity right from that device into something like that.

Autosol is another one, especially because ACM and Autosol kind of carry some product lines in there sort of the same way.

So you see lots of those integrations.

And that's, for whatever reason, that seems to be very common when I go to refinery operations.

They're quick to, let me kick out Kepware, put in the oil and gas suite, and let's talk in between things.

So I think you guys have covered both the cost, you know, it's low barrier to entry, you know, complexity is, hey, you've got a hex configuration, you really, a lot of times onboarding with an app that I think you guys have available, Right.

But as you mentioned earlier, if there's a technologist involved, they'll see the value in skipping that step and really taking it to the higher level.

Yeah, I've also seen some that deploy it using like Kepware in the middle as another product.

Kepware is very common for OPC UA connectivity right from that device into something like that.

AutoSol is another one, especially because ACM and AutoSol kind of carry some product lines in there sort of the same way.

So you see lots of those integrations.

And that's for whatever reason, that seems to be very common when I go to refinery operations.

They're quick to let me kick out Kepware, put in the oil and gas suite, and let's talk in between.

So I think you guys have covered both the cost, you know, it's low barrier to entry, you know, complexity is, hey, you've got a hex configuration, you really a lot of times onboarding with an app that I think you guys have available.

Schneider we know from their automation, more of a PLC side I would use it from and some of their software.

And PTC more from a Kepware side but just much more than Kepware as well.

But I mainly use Kepware.

The deal is worth a whopping 22.6 billion, which is quite large.

Schneider Electric, as I said, kind of helps factories, data centers, buildings manage electricity, automation and that kind of thing.

There was no drivers then.

It was just OPC server, like RSLinks or Kepware, and getting that to a SQL database.

And here we're at the roadshows.

And the roadshows, and we got to know each other.

We're, we're really using off-the-shelf stuff, right? So you've got field devices, PLCs, sensors.

They have raw signals that go into an OPC UA server, something like Kepware.

They're using drivers to talk to the devices, and then they go into an OPC UA server.

Both of those things are publishing into an MQTT broker, and in general, you're using some type of ingestion layer, okay? So they're, you know, Telegraph, Kafka Connect, some custom app from the broker, and that's going, taking the events and storing them in Postgres.

People were using timescale in industry.

But for those, for those who are not using timescale right now, so th- this is gonna be someone who's either buying a historian as we defined it earlier, or this is a really common one, they're using some type of event-based transaction, um, plugin.

So like in Kepware, there's a transaction logger where I can consume tags, and I can tr- and I can just insert them into a database-

Yeah [laughs]