Your process data is stuck on the plant floor.Flowgate moves it wherever your business needs it — in a couple of clicks.
Every area of your facility runs on different equipment that was never built to work together — a FloBoss metering a well, an Allen-Bradley PLC running a compressor, a Siemens controller regulating a boiler, a Bently Nevada rack watching a turbine.
Getting one signal from one area to another — say a feed measurement out of your Utilities and into your Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit — usually means a custom integration project for every pair of devices. Flowgate turns that into a couple of clicks.
It sits between your equipment and the rest of your business, translates whatever each device speaks into one common language, and carries the data wherever it needs to go — reliably, securely, and without waiting on the vendor who sold you the hardware.
And it does it without ever weakening your security perimeter: the plant only reaches outward, nothing from the outside can reach in, and the data still flows freely to everyone who needs it.
Why it matters
Industrial data has become a strategic enterprise asset
Once Flowgate carries your data off the plant floor, it stops being just something the process needs and becomes something the whole business runs on. The same reliable, secure, one-common-form feed powers every one of these:
Operations Optimization
Real-time monitoring
Performance
Process efficiency
Predictive Maintenance
Asset health
Failure prediction
Reliability
Enterprise Analytics
KPIs
Dashboards
Cross-site insights
Sustainability & ESG
Emissions
Energy use
ESG metrics
AI & Advanced Analytics
Anomaly detection
Optimization models
ML insights
Digital Twins & Simulation
Scenario testing
Process design
Optimization
Regulatory Compliance
Reporting
Audits
Traceability
Industrial data is no longer just operational data. It powers the entire enterprise.
ArchitectureOne chainable layer from the plant floor to the cloud.
GovernanceEvery change named, timestamped, and audited.
SecurityCross the perimeter without ever opening it.
ScalabilityFrom a single edge box up to the busiest enterprise.
The status quo
Why your data stays stuck
Your equipment can measure everything, but the data rarely reaches the people and systems that need it. Getting it there has always meant slow, custom work — and tools that solve one piece of the problem and leave the rest.
01Your devices don't speak the same languageA FloBoss, an Allen-Bradley PLC, a Siemens controller, and a Bently Nevada monitor each report data their own way. Left alone, none of them can hand a reading to the others.
02Every connection is its own projectMoving one signal between two areas means a custom integration, wired by a specialist and re-done the next time. The effort never adds up to anything you can reuse.
03Data goes missing when the link dropsWhen the connection between a remote site and the office hiccups, the readings from that gap are simply gone. You find out later, when the numbers stop adding up.
04You get locked to one vendorMost tools push data one direction and tie you to their stack. Change your mind later and you start the whole integration over from scratch.
How it works
One tool, connecting every area of your facility
Point Flowgate at your devices, tell it where the data should go, and it handles the rest — translating between equipment that doesn't share a language and carrying every reading safely across your facility and out to the business.
Connect any device, whatever it speaksFloBoss, Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Bently Nevada, and more all connect the same way. Flowgate translates each one into a single common format, so everything downstream sees clean, consistent data instead of a dozen different dialects.
Plugs into the systems you already runPI, DeltaV, Ignition, Experion, ABB — Flowgate connects to the historians, control systems, and SCADA platforms already in your plant through the open interfaces they expose, and moves data between them and the field devices below. Nothing to rip out and replace: Flowgate is the layer that ties what you already own together.
Move signals between areas in a couple of clicksNeed a feed measurement from your Utilities over in your Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit? Pick the source, pick the destination, done — regardless of which devices control either process. What used to be an integration project is now a setting.
Never lose a readingWhen the link to a remote site drops — weather, a satellite dropout, a maintenance window — Flowgate holds the data locally and fills it back in the moment the connection returns. Nothing falls through the gap.
Cross the perimeter without weakening itSecurity wants the plant sealed; operations want the data flowing. Flowgate gives you both. Every connection is opened from inside the plant reaching out — nothing from the outside ever reaches in — so your secure perimeter stays completely intact, with no inbound holes to punch and nothing for an audit to flag. Yet from the office or the cloud you still get full, live access to everything inside. Locked down and wide open at once.
Ties into the logins you already useFlowgate plugs straight into your Active Directory and domain controllers, so people sign in with the accounts they already have. Every change to your facility is tied to a name and a timestamp in a tamper-proof record — full auditability and traceability out of the box, and a Management of Change process that finally runs itself.
Encrypted end to end, locked to who needs itEvery link between every tier is encrypted, and every person sees only the data they're cleared for — a tag outside someone's view isn't just denied, its very existence is never revealed. Each relay enforces those permissions on its own, with no call back to a central server, so your access rules hold even when a site is running on its own.
See your whole operation from one placeConnect to any point in the chain and browse every device beneath it — one live view from a single unit up to every site on the map. Look at a value, send one back, or watch it change in real time, all from the same screen.
Reaches as far as you needFrom a single skid to a plant to the corporate cloud, Flowgate links as many hops as your network needs, and only pulls a reading down the chain when someone actually asks for it — no wasted traffic.
Built to keep runningBackup connections, automatic failover, and constant health checks come standard on every device you connect — not something you bolt on one integration at a time. If one path fails, the data keeps flowing.
Handles the biggest operationsRuns on the hardware you already have, from a small box at a remote site up to the datacenter, and keeps pace with the busiest facilities without breaking a sweat.
Information at a glance
See the whole pipeline's health in one look
You shouldn't have to go digging to know your data is flowing. Flowgate shows the health of the entire pipeline at a glance — every connection, every site, every hop — so a problem is obvious the moment it appears, not days later when the numbers stop adding up.
Health at a single glanceOne view of the whole chain: which connections are up, which sites are reachable, where data is buffering, and where it's flowing. Green means it's working — anything else stands out right away.
Plugs into the tools you already watchFlowgate exposes its own health and metrics over a REST API, so it drops straight into the monitoring you already run — Grafana, Prometheus, and the like. Pipeline health shows up on the same screens your team already keeps an eye on, with no new tool to learn.
Catch problems before they cost youBecause the metrics are live and standard, you can alert on them the way you alert on everything else — spot a dropped link or a backing-up buffer before it turns into lost data or a 3 a.m. phone call.
One industry, worked end to endWater and wastewater plants run decades of mixed equipment. How the data comes out without a rip-and-replace — the full brownfield story, in one article.Read: Water and wastewater data without a rip-and-replace →
How it's deployed
From the plant floor to the boardroom
Flowgate installs at every level of your operation — right next to your devices, in the secure zone between the plant and the office, and up in the enterprise or cloud. It's the same software everywhere, simply told what job to do, and every connection reaches up and out, so your control network never has to accept anything coming in. That's how it crosses a secure perimeter without punching a hole in it — data flows outward to whoever needs it, while nothing from the outside can ever reach the plant floor.
Figure 1. Flowgate runs the same binary at the Enterprise, Operations, and site levels (4 / 3 / 2), each configured by role. Every relay initiates an outbound OPC-UA Reverse Connect to the node above it, secured by mTLS — traversing the DMZ without a single inbound firewall rule on the OT network.
Where it fits
One platform, many industries
The same easy, reliable, sealed-off connectivity fits any operation with data trapped on the plant floor and people who need it upstream.
ManufacturingOne system tying your machines together instead of a tangle of one-off connections — the backbone for a single, shared view of the plant.
Oil & GasRemote wells and facilities on shaky connections, held together by buffering that never loses a reading and a plant that stays sealed from the outside.Read: wellsite flow computer data without the trip →
Pharma & Life SciencesA data-integrity-grade record with a tamper-proof audit trail, built for the traceability your compliance depends on.
Power & UtilitiesSubstation and plant data brought together over a locked-down, outbound-only connection that keeps the auditors satisfied.
Renewable EnergyWind and solar sites across the map, pulled into one fleet view no matter whose equipment runs each one.
Water & WastewaterDependable data from dozens of thinly-staffed remote sites on unreliable links.
Mining & MetalsSafety, environmental, and tailings monitoring across rugged, remote sites with spotty communications.
Food & BeverageBatch traceability, line performance, and the compliance data your recalls and audits depend on.
Under the hood
Built like infrastructure, because it is
In plain terms
Flowgate is the layer that connects your equipment to the rest of your business. It isn't a control system and it isn't a historian, and it doesn't replace anything you run today — it sits quietly in between, translating between devices that don't share a language and moving their data where it needs to go, for years, without losing it, leaking it, or falling over. It crosses your secure network perimeter without ever weakening it: the plant only reaches outward, so there's nothing for an intruder to reach in through, while everyone above still gets full, live access to the data below.
The engineering
The design starts from not losing data. A Go core carries the routing, and messages ride a durable, replayable backbone rather than a fire-and-forget bus, so a slow consumer or a dropped link costs nothing — the edge relay buffers to a local store and fills the gap on reconnect.
Every node is a real OPC UA server and REST API in its own right, not a black box in the middle, and the address space federates downward: a parent projects every child's tags as one tree. A whole site reads like a single system, which is why moving a signal between areas is a setting rather than an integration project.
The security model exists to cross the perimeter without weakening it, so the plant only ever reaches outward. Tiers authenticate to each other with mutual TLS under an internal CA and certificates rotate without a restart; access is scoped by RBAC and data views, where an out-of-view tag returns 404 so its existence is never revealed; domain authentication binds to LDAP/AD and OAuth2/OIDC with tokens validated offline at every relay; and the audit trail is hash-chained and tamper-evident.
It runs on Linux (x86-64 and ARM64) and Windows, from a compact edge host up to Kubernetes in the datacenter, and every node exposes its own health and metrics over the same REST API — so it monitors like any other piece of infrastructure.
Flowgate connects your equipment end to end today: any device translated into one common language, signals moved between areas and sites in a couple of clicks, buffering that never loses a reading, data carried out without opening your plant up, and full sign-in through your Active Directory with a tamper-proof audit trail. It runs from a single box at a remote site up to the datacenter, and multi-site deployments already move tens of thousands of signals between locations.
Any device
FloBoss, Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Bently Nevada and more — connected on one platform
Zero
inbound openings in your secure perimeter — yet data still flows out freely
No data lost
readings buffered through any outage and filled back in on reconnect
Floor to cloud
one tool from the plant floor to the enterprise
ShippedConnect and translateEvery device connected and translated into one common language, with a single live view you can browse, read from, and write back to — anywhere from one unit up to every site.
ShippedReliable across any distanceMove data between areas and sites with automatic buffering through outages, backup connections, and failover — and no way into your control network left open.
ShippedEvery major device family, securedFloBoss, Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Bently Nevada and more, all connected — with encryption end to end, sign-in through your Active Directory, and a tamper-proof record of every change for a seamless Management of Change process.
ActiveScale and manageA central management console and packaging for the largest multi-site rollouts — hardening the platform for facilities that run it everywhere.
Every facility runs on equipment that was never built to work together, and holds data the rest of the business can't reach. Flowgate is the layer that connects it all and moves that data wherever it needs to go — easily, safely, without losing a reading, and without tying you to any one vendor.
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