New live demo provides a practical example of how to set up machine monitoring at your facility.
Whether you're trying to cut energy costs, avoid unplanned downtime, or just get eyes on what's actually happening on the plant floor, real-time machine monitoring gives you the information you need to act.
If you're looking for a practical example of how to do it—using real equipment, standard protocols, and a system that's running 24/7—try out a new live demo that shows exactly how we’ve set up our own machine monitoring at Opto 22 headquarters in Temecula, California.
Live from Opto 22’s headquarters in Temecula, California, the demo shows:
- Real-time power and energy consumption from our manufacturing facility
- Live compressor and air dryer data—temperatures, dew point, amps, run status
- Historical energy and air usage charts
- A live camera feed from our utility room
- MQTT Sparkplug B metrics—devices, nodes, throughput, latency
- Full system diagnostics, tag structure, and health stats
Here’s how it works:
- Physical I/O data is collected by Opto 22’s groov EPIC and groov RIO edge devices
- groov’s onboard Data Service securely publishes MQTT Sparkplug B tag data to an MQTT broker, in this case Ignition’s MQTT Distributor Module hosted on Ignition Cloud Edition.
- Data is visualized in Ignition Perspective, a web-based visualization module also hosted on Ignition Cloud Edition
No simulation. This is our actual equipment.
If you’re thinking about setting up something similar, this demo shows what’s possible with open protocols and flexible edge hardware. Give it a try!
Talk to an Opto 22 engineer if you'd like some help building your own system.