Secure Remote Access Controls
A proactive approach to troubleshooting using secure remote access could drastically increase meantime between failures (MTBF) while reducing the mean time to repair (MTTR) which both contribute to increasing your plant availability and to your bottom line.
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The production nightmare
You run your automated production line 24/7. One of your key machines breaks down in the middle of the night and could cause you significant delays and costs. Time is running and you need to get the machine back to operation asap!
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You need to start troubleshooting but…
It’s a complex machine and your internal maintenance team needs external support from the experts. For security reasons, you can’t give your experts remote access to your machine. Now, the experts have to drive in off-hours to identify and fix the problem. Meanwhile, you’re losing money
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But, what if…
you could give the experts really secure access to only this particular machine from anywhere in the world, without compromising your existing control system? What if the experts could see the system parameters long before a breakdown? What if they could safely read out parameters and alarm lists, make changes to the system, view settings logs remotely?
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Our approach
We are not rocket scientists but we are accelerator engineers who have been building atom smashers around the world for the past 25 years. In the world of complex and costly particle accelerators, we have a strong 24/7 maintenance mindset in place. It is essential for us to always understand the state of a machine remotely and to be able to securely troubleshoot it efficiently from anywhere in the world at any time. That’s why we developed Blinky-Lite
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What makes Blinky-Lite so different?
Mobility - Security - Flexibility - Services - Open source
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Blinky-Lite mobility
Most other control platforms sit behind a firewall and remote access is an afterthought. Not with us. Secure remote access was the paramount requirement from the start. All our applications are web apps that can be securely accessed from anywhere in the world. Web apps require no installation and you are always guaranteed to get the latest version.
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Blinky-Lite security
Our machine connections are always initiated from within your facility - not from the outside - providing secure information flow from you to the machine/sensor and back. All our mobile apps require two factor authentication, ensuring that only the right people have access.
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Blinky-Lite flexibility
You spent a lot of money on automating your plant. You don’t have to start over Blinky-Lite can be added independently or on top of any existing control system. It is full stack from the beginning. It comes with all the necessary features that makes it extremely easy to use. Blinky-Lite can integrate with many different communication protocols from Modbus to SCPI to S7 over many different types of communication technologies from WLAN, 5G or LoRa
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Blinky-Lite services
Most other control platforms only offer a communication protocol, but Blinky-LiteTM out of the box provides: Alarm Scanning, SMS Alarm messaging, Data Logging, Access Logging, Settings Logging, Application role based access, Data stream role based access, Zero-code application builder, Device-side restricted messaging, Scalar plotting, Vector plotting, User customized app launcher, User customized device viewers, Two factor authentication
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Blinky-Lite open-source code
Every single line of the Blinky-Lite codebase is version-controlled and open to you. No license fees. No proprietary software. Blinky-Lite can be with you forever and can grow with your facility, with or without us.
