Most industrial equipment wasn't built to be connected. But LPWAN makes it possible to retrofit existing industrial infrastructure with wireless sensors in days. Discover how to get live data from assets that were never designed to share it.
The factory of the future is the one you already have
Walk through any industrial facility and you will find pumps, compressors, and steam systems that have run reliably for decades. They were built to last, but they were never designed to share data.
This is the brownfield reality. You are expected to manage energy consumption, equipment health, and process efficiency, but you are forced to do it with incomplete data. Unplanned downtime isn't just an operational headache. It's a massive, measurable financial drain.
$1.4 Trillion
The annual cost of unplanned downtime to the world's 500 largest companies.
Why the obvious solutions don't work
Wiring is a money pit
Running physical cables is slow, intrusive, and can cost up to 10 times more than wireless alternatives.
OT integration is a security nightmare
Trying to force new monitoring sensors into your existing SCADA or PLC networks introduces critical cybersecurity risks to your production control loop.
Building in-house is a trap
Building a custom IoT platform from scratch takes years, massive budgets, and usually ends in pilot failure.
Your blueprint to brownfield connectivity
This white paper outlines a pragmatic, secure, and fast alternative to the legacy bottleneck. Inside the white paper, we break down how to use LPWAN networks like LoRaWAN and Mioty to retrofit your existing assets and get live dashboards running in less than a week.
The white paper highlights two practical use cases. Currenta Conneqtive uses akenza to digitize major CHEMPARK chemical sites in Germany.
