Machine monitoring, made in New Zealand
Every machine on your floor, live in one place.
Kealink reads your PLCs and sensors and shows you what each machine is doing right now, what it did last month, and emails the right people when a reading drifts out of range.
30 s
between readings, on every machine
0
readings thrown away: history is kept
3
missed reports and the machine shows as offline
1
portal per company, with its own logo
Kealink in one minute
Captions are in the video. The portal shown is a demo machine with simulated readings.
Read the transcript
This is Kealink. It shows every machine on your floor, live, in one place.
On most factory floors, you find out a machine has a problem when someone walks past it. By then the spindle has been running hot for an hour, or the line stopped at morning tea.
A Kaynan Fusion IoT box on your network reads the values you care about from each PLC. Temperatures, pressures, counts and run state, every thirty seconds.
The readings travel to Kealink over an encrypted connection, and each machine has its own password. Kealink only reads. It never sends a command back to a machine.
Your team sees each machine on one page, on any screen. Current values update on their own, and a year of history is one click away.
Set a high or low limit on any reading. When it is crossed, or a machine goes quiet, Kealink emails the right people, and tells them again when it is back to normal.
Every company gets its own portal, with its own name and logo, and sees only its own machines.
Kealink is made in New Zealand by Kaynan Fusion and Salix. Talk to us at www.kealink.co.nz.
How it connects
Kealink only reads. It never writes to a PLC or sends a command to a machine.
PLC or sensors
on the machine
IoT box
Node-RED gateway
Kealink
stores and checks
Your team
portal and alerts
- 1
Read the machine
A Kaynan Fusion IoT box on your network reads the values you care about from the PLC: temperatures, pressures, counts, run state. Already have Node-RED or a gateway? That works too.
- 2
Send it securely
Readings go out over MQTT with TLS, or HTTPS. Each machine has its own password and can only send data as itself, so one compromised box cannot pose as another.
- 3
See it live
Current values update on their own. Charts go from the last hour to the last year, and any chart downloads as a spreadsheet.
- 4
Hear about problems
Set a high or low limit on any reading. When it is crossed, or a machine goes quiet, Kealink emails the people who need to know, and tells them again when it is back to normal.
What your team sees
One page per machine, on any screen, with no app to install.
- Right now
- Every reading with its unit, whether the machine is online, late or offline, and when it last reported.
- Any stretch of time
- The last hour reading by reading, or the last year day by day, with the lowest and highest reading in each period shaded in.
- Open alerts
- What is out of range, since when, and how far. Closed alerts stay in the history.
- Your own portal
- Your company name, logo and colour, on your own web address if you want one. Your customers never see anyone else's machines.
Built for the plant floor
Alerts that do not nag
A reading can be required to stay out of range for a few minutes before anyone is told. A value hovering on a limit stays one alert, not an email every 30 seconds.
People and roles
Viewers see machines and alerts. Managers also set alert limits. Admins also invite and remove people. Everyone signs in with a password or an emailed link.
Slack and webhooks
Send alerts to a Slack channel, or to any system that accepts a webhook, as well as by email.
Open to your systems
Devices post over MQTT or HTTPS. Your own software can read machines, readings and alerts back through an API with its own keys.
History you keep
Every reading is stored, compressed after a week, and summarised by hour and by day, so a year-long chart still opens quickly.
Local people
Kaynan Fusion installs and supports the hardware on site. Salix builds and runs the software. Both are New Zealand companies.
Who is behind Kealink
Kealink is a joint product of two New Zealand companies.
Questions
Do I need new hardware?
Usually one Kaynan Fusion IoT box per site, which reads the PLCs over your network. If you already run Node-RED or a gateway that can send MQTT or HTTPS, it can connect directly and you need nothing new.
Which PLCs does it work with?
The IoT box runs Node-RED, which talks to most industrial PLCs over their usual protocols. Tell us what you run and we will confirm before you commit to anything.
Can Kealink change anything on my machines?
No. Kealink only receives readings. There is no path from Kealink back to a PLC, so nothing on the portal can start, stop or change a machine.
What happens if the internet drops?
The machine shows as late, then offline, and an offline alert is emailed. If the gateway keeps readings while offline and sends them with their times, Kealink files them in the right place without raising alerts about the past.
Where is the data kept, and for how long?
In the cloud, on Railway's servers in Singapore, with daily backups. Readings are kept for as long as you use Kealink. The data belongs to you, and any chart downloads as a spreadsheet.
What does it cost?
It depends on how many machines and sites you have, and whether you need hardware. Tell us about your site and we will send a quote.
Talk to us
Tell us a little about your site. Your message goes to both Kaynan Fusion and Salix, and one of us will reply.