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SMARTUNIFIER is an industrial connectivity and DataOps platform that connects machines, PLCs, industrial equipment, databases, enterprise applications, and cloud platforms. It acts as an integration layer between OT and IT, helping companies collect, transform, contextualize, and exchange industrial data across different systems. The result is a more consistent and reusable data foundation for applications such as MES, analytics, monitoring, digital twins, and Industrial AI.

Industrial environments often consist of machines, automation systems, databases, MES and ERP applications, and cloud platforms from different vendors and generations. Connecting all these systems individually can quickly lead to a complex landscape of interfaces that is difficult and costly to maintain.
SMARTUNIFIER helps simplify this by providing a standardized integration layer. Connectivity components, information models, and mappings can be reused instead of rebuilding integrations for every new machine or system. This reduces engineering effort and makes industrial connectivity easier to maintain and expand.

A traditional point-to-point approach often means developing and maintaining a separate interface for every connection. As more machines and systems are added, the engineering and maintenance effort grows with them.
With SMARTUNIFIER, communication channels, information models, mappings, and device configurations can be standardized and reused. Once an integration has been created, parts of it can be applied to similar machines, equipment, or systems.
This reduces repetitive engineering work and can lower the effort required to build, maintain, and extend the integration landscape over time.

Yes. Reusability is a core principle of SMARTUNIFIER.
Information models, communication channels, mappings, device configurations, and even mapping logic can be reused for similar integration scenarios.
For example, if several machines of the same type need to be connected, companies do not have to engineer each integration from scratch. A standardized configuration can serve as a template and be reused across machines and, where appropriate, across production sites.

Yes. SMARTUNIFIER is designed to connect both existing and modern industrial environments.
Legacy equipment can continue using its existing communication technology while SMARTUNIFIER transforms its data for modern applications, databases, cloud platforms, or communication standards such as MQTT and OPC UA.
This allows companies to modernize their IT/OT architecture step by step instead of replacing existing equipment simply because it uses an older interface or data format.

SMARTUNIFIER can connect a broad range of OT and IT systems, including machines, PLCs, sensors and peripheral devices, databases, MES and ERP environments, web services, message-based systems, and cloud platforms.
It supports industrial and IT connectivity technologies including OPC UA, MQTT, REST/web services, databases, file-based communication, message buses, and direct PLC connectivity, among others.
For a complete overview, see our supported connectivity endpoints and data formats.

Connecting two systems is only part of the challenge. The data they exchange also needs to be understandable and usable.
SMARTUNIFIER uses information models, mappings, transformations, and type conversions to translate data between different systems. Information models provide a structured representation of the data independently of the underlying communication protocol.
This means that applications can receive information in a consistent structure even when the machines and systems providing that data communicate differently.

Raw machine data often needs additional structure and context before it becomes useful to other applications.
SMARTUNIFIER separates the technical connection from the way information is structured and understood. Information models can standardize machine and system data, while mappings transform it into the structure required by consuming applications. Information from different sources can also be combined to add additional context.
This creates a more consistent and understandable industrial data foundation for analytics, monitoring, digital twins, cloud applications, and AI-driven use cases.

Not necessarily, and this is an important advantage when working with existing industrial environments.
SMARTUNIFIER can connect systems through their existing interfaces and translate between different protocols, formats, and data structures. This can reduce the need to modify the machines or applications themselves.
It is particularly useful when integrating legacy equipment or systems that would be costly, risky, or simply impractical to change.

A good way to start is with one clearly defined integration use case, for example, connecting a machine to an MES, sending OPC UA data to a database, making production data available for analytics, or integrating a legacy machine into a modern data architecture.
SMARTUNIFIER is available as a free download, so companies can start with a small proof of concept and explore the platform using our documentation, tutorials, and practical how-to examples.
Because configurations and integration components can be reused, a first use case can then become the foundation for connecting additional machines, systems, and applications.