The Bridge Between Lab Bench and Control Room
The Problem: Researchers and engineers currently face a binary choice:
- High-Overhead Infrastructure: Systems like PVSS/WinCC OA are powerful but require massive resources and “Control Room” scale to implement.
- Proprietary Silos: Solutions like LabVIEW offer local control but are locked behind expensive licenses and often fail to bridge the gap between a physical lab and a remote office.
The Solution - The Blinky-LiteTM Toolbox
Blinky-LiteTM is an open-source, out-of-the-box control system designed to provide secure, global access to experimental data without the industrial overhead. Whether your lab is two kilometers away or on another continent, Blinky-Lite provides a desktop and mobile-ready interface to monitor, alarm, and act.
Key Advantages:
- Zero-Afterthought Deployment: Complete and ready to use immediately; you connect devices as they arrive, rather than building the system retrospectively.
- Infrastructure-Agile: Perfect for retrofitting existing facilities. Using wireless and AI capabilities, you can add critical safety layers - like leak detection or anomaly monitoring - without pulling new cables.
- Validated Security: Our Inside-Out first communication architecture bypasses traditional firewall roadblocks. This has been successfully demonstrated within the highly restricted CERN network, proving it meets the world’s most stringent IT security standards.
Our Business Model: Hardware & Automation
While the core system is open-source, we monetize the physical and logical layers of the ecosystem:
- Instrumentation and High performance RF hardware: We provide integrated high-precision instrumentation (Leak detector, Temperature, ADC, 4-20mA readouts) and develop high performance RF systems for particle accelerators.
- Connectivity: We provide integrated microcontroller bridges (WiFi/Ethernet) that act as the secure gateway for your hardware.
- Automation Intelligence: We develop custom automation layers allowing sensors and actuators to interact autonomously and safely.