When Machines Talk and the Business Finally Listens
An industrial enterprise struggled to harness data from its IoT devices and sensors. Infarsight built a plug-and-play ingestion layer-capturing edge data in real time, reducing data loss by 95%, and delivering live insights from field to boardroom
Summary
A large industrial enterprise had made heavy investments in IoT sensors, cameras, and smart meters across its field operations. The devices were talking. But the systems weren’t listening. Data was getting lost between the edge and the enterprise. Infarsight helped them build a scalable ingestion layer—capturing every byte, syncing every feed, and connecting real-world events to real-time business decisions.
The Situation
Across multiple plants and field locations, smart devices were everywhere.
- Cameras monitoring movement and safety
- Meters tracking energy, flow, and load
- IoT sensors collecting temperature, vibration, and pressure data
- Machines logging events and operational performance
But none of it showed up where it mattered: in the dashboards, reports, or executive decisions.
Data was siloed, formats were inconsistent, and onboarding a new device meant weeks of integration work.
The Challenge
The organization needed to:
- Capture structured and unstructured data from edge devices reliably
- Ingest both bulk (historical) and incremental (real-time) data
- Normalize and sync formats for analytics and business use
- Enable self-service scaling - plugging in new devices without rewriting the system
What We Did
Infarsight implemented a real-time data ingestion framework across sites, built to handle the unpredictability and scale of device-level data.
1. Data Collection at the Edge
Built connectors and lightweight agents to extract data from cameras, meters, and IoT hardware using OPC-UA, MQTT, Modbus, and proprietary protocols.
2. Scalable Ingestion Pipelines
Designed streaming and batch ingestion pipelines that supported both initial backfills and real-time incremental updates, without data loss.
3. Format Normalization & Integration
Standardized incoming data and integrated it with the client’s existing data fabric, enabling BI teams and business users to access live, reliable data instantly.
The Results
| Outcome | Business Impact |
|---|---|
| 🔌 Plug-and-play device onboarding | New devices integrated in hours, not weeks |
| 🧠 Real-time visibility | Dashboards updated with live sensor data |
| 📉 Reduced data loss | 95% drop in ingestion failures |
| 🏢 Field-to-boardroom flow | Executives gained access to operational insights |
Voice from the Ground
“We had all the hardware in place, but no intelligence flow. Now, the data works as hard as the machines do.”
— VP of Operations
Why It Matters
Smart factories aren’t built by buying smart devices.
They’re built by making those devices talk to the business.
Infarsight closes the loop- from the edge to the executive floor-so your machines don’t just work. They report.
Ready to make your machines part of your decision system?