Get real-time visibility into your machines, PLCs, and sensors without enterprise licensing costs, server infrastructure, or SCADA integrators. Designed for small manufacturers, machine shops, and plant operators.
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Traditional SCADA systems — Ignition, AVEVA InTouch, Wonderware, Citect — were designed for large industrial enterprises with dedicated IT teams, capital budgets in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and SCADA integrators on retainer. For a small manufacturer, machine shop, food processor, or water utility, they represent a solution that is fundamentally oversized for the problem.
Licensing costs that start at $10,000–$50,000. A basic Ignition or AVEVA deployment requires purchasing the platform license, adding client workstations, and often buying protocol-specific driver modules. Before a single PLC is monitored, the licensing invoice can exceed an entire year of production revenue for a small shop. Cloud-based SCADA on a monthly subscription eliminates this barrier entirely.
Server hardware that small businesses don't have. Traditional SCADA runs on a dedicated Windows server — either physical hardware or a VM. For a machine shop with five CNCs or a food processing plant with a handful of temperature controllers, provisioning a server, maintaining the OS, managing backups, and ensuring uptime creates IT overhead that the business has no capacity to absorb.
Integrator requirements that add months and cost. Getting a traditional SCADA system running typically requires a certified integrator — a specialist contractor who configures the tag database, designs the graphics, sets up historian, and hands over a working system. Small projects can still cost $15,000–$40,000 in integration fees alone. SCADA Cloud's self-service setup eliminates this entirely: the plant manager connects the first device in minutes.
Overly complex for monitoring 5–50 devices. If you need to monitor a handful of PLCs, log energy meter readings, or get alerted when a temperature exceeds a threshold, you do not need historian databases with millions of tags, complex scripting engines, or operator screens with animated P&ID graphics. SCADA Cloud gives you exactly what a small operation actually needs — live values, trends, and alarms — without the complexity that serves no purpose at your scale.
Live dashboards showing current values from all your devices — temperatures, pressures, flow rates, energy readings, machine status. Auto-refreshing, no manual polling.
Configure high and low setpoints for any register. Get email or in-app alerts when values go out of range — before small issues become expensive downtime.
Every tag value is logged automatically. View trends over hours, days, or weeks. Identify patterns, investigate incidents, prove compliance — all from the browser.
Connect PLCs, VFDs, energy meters and sensors via Modbus TCP over Ethernet or Modbus RTU over RS-485/RS-232 via a serial gateway. No special hardware needed.
Browser-based means any device — PC, tablet, phone. Check plant status from home, monitor a remote site without a VPN, share dashboards with your maintenance team.
No per-I/O fees. No per-workstation licensing. A flat monthly subscription that covers all features, all users, and all devices in your plan — scale up as your plant grows.
Enter the IP address and Modbus port of your PLC or controller, or the address of your MQTT broker. SCADA Cloud immediately starts reading your device's registers — no gateway server to configure first.
Define which registers or topics to monitor. Set engineering units (°C, bar, kWh), scaling factors, and alarm thresholds. All done in the browser — no tag database tool, no scripting, no integrator.
Drag gauges, value displays, trend charts, and alarm lists onto your canvas. Share the live dashboard URL with anyone in your team — no client software, no additional setup on their device.
Monitor production line PLCs, track throughput, get alerted to machine faults before they cause downtime. Get factory-floor visibility without a factory-floor IT budget.
Connect Modbus energy meters to SCADA Cloud and track consumption by machine or production area. Identify waste, report on efficiency, and build the case for energy-saving investments.
Monitor cold storage temperatures, pasteurization temperatures, and process pressures. Alarm immediately on excursions — protect product quality and meet compliance requirements.
Monitor pump stations, tank levels, flow rates, and chlorine dosing without building a full SCADA infrastructure. Small water utilities get enterprise-grade monitoring at a manageable cost.
Track HVAC performance, chiller efficiency, and utility consumption across your facility using Modbus or BACnet-to-Modbus gateways. One dashboard for every system in the building.
Monitor solar inverter output, battery SOC, and grid import/export via Modbus TCP. Small solar farms and commercial rooftop installations get real-time visibility without enterprise SCADA costs.
Yes — with cloud-based SCADA. Traditional on-premise SCADA from vendors like Ignition or AVEVA starts at $10,000–$50,000 in licensing, plus server hardware and integrator fees. SCADA Cloud uses monthly subscription pricing with no upfront license cost, no server to buy, and no integrator required. Small manufacturers, food processors, and utilities with 5–50 devices can access professional SCADA monitoring for a predictable monthly fee — similar to any SaaS subscription, not a capital project.
SCADA Cloud connects to any device that speaks Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, MQTT, or OPC UA. This covers PLCs (Siemens, Allen Bradley, Delta, Mitsubishi, Schneider), VFDs and drives, energy meters, flow meters, temperature controllers, pressure sensors, and IoT gateways. If your device uses Modbus registers or publishes data to an MQTT topic, SCADA Cloud can read and display it in real time.
No. SCADA Cloud is fully self-service. Register, add your device IP and port, map your registers, and build your dashboard — all from the browser. Most users have live data within 20–30 minutes of signing up. No server, no client software installation, no integrator engagement. If you can configure a PLC's IP address, you can set up SCADA Cloud.
Yes. SCADA Cloud is browser-based and works on any device — PC, Mac, tablet, or smartphone. Log in from your phone and see the same live dashboards you built on your desktop. No separate mobile app required. Check production status from home, view alarm history on the road, and share live dashboards with maintenance engineers wherever they are.
No server. No integrator. No credit card. Connect your first device and build your first dashboard in under 30 minutes.