What is EmberNet?
EmberNet is a secure, multi-tenant platform for monitoring and automating industrial infrastructure. It runs at the edge, on hardware at your site, and keeps working when the connection to the cloud does not.
What it does
Real-time industrial monitoring
EmberNet collects telemetry from equipment, sensors, and controllers over the protocols they already speak: OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus TCP/RTU, SNMP, and BACnet/IP, with sixteen further industrial protocols available for metric collection through Device Monitor.
Data is ingested at high resolution, filtered and aggregated locally, and stored in a tiered time-series pipeline. Live metric cards in the console show current state; for custom charting, the platform ships Grafana in the App Store.
Edge-native operation
The platform runs next to the equipment it monitors rather than in a distant data center. That buys four things:
- Processing happens at the source, so control decisions aren't waiting on a WAN round trip
- A site keeps operating through a network outage and reconciles afterward
- Bandwidth costs drop, because filtering happens before data leaves the site
- Data can stay inside a jurisdiction when regulation requires it
Zero-trust security
Every connection is authenticated, authorized, and encrypted. There is no VPN to build and no inbound port to open, because nothing dials in. Access is granted between cryptographic identities rather than between network addresses, so there is no flat network to move laterally across. Certificates are issued, rotated, and revoked by the platform.
See Zero-Trust Networking and Flux.
Multi-tenant fleet management
One control plane can operate many independent environments, which is what makes the platform workable for managed service providers and for enterprises running several business units. Tenants get partitioned data, their own configuration, independent role assignments, and no visibility into each other.
Isolation is enforced in the data layer, not by hiding buttons in the interface. See Multi-Tenancy.
The pieces
| Component | What it is |
|---|---|
| EmberRTOS | The immutable edge operating system, with an optional real-time kernel |
| EmberNet Endpoint | The Windows and Linux client that joins a host to the fabric |
| Dashboard | The operations console |
| App Store | Curated industrial apps deployed to edge nodes |
| Flux, Cinder, AnvilMQ | Networking, storage, and messaging, built in |
Technology partners
| Partner | What they bring |
|---|---|
| Inductive Automation | SCADA and OPC UA connectivity through Ignition |
| CODESYS | IEC 61131-3 automation runtime |
| Sorba.ai | Machine learning for industrial data |
| OnLogic | Rugged edge computing hardware |
| Velasea | Edge servers, NVRs, and industrial computing platforms (Iron Link series) |
| SUSE | Enterprise Linux and container orchestration |
Who uses it
- Manufacturing: production line monitoring, quality control, predictive maintenance
- Energy and utilities: grid monitoring, renewable asset management, SCADA integration
- Water and wastewater: treatment plant monitoring, pump station automation
- Building automation: HVAC, lighting, environmental monitoring
- Oil and gas: pipeline monitoring, wellhead automation, safety systems
Next steps
- Architecture: how the platform is built
- Multi-Tenancy: the multi-tenant design
- System Requirements: what you need to deploy it