Technology
Edge to storage — every layer engineered, integrated, and supported in-house.
The technology in a Radical deployment spans physical sensing on the packhouse floor, wireless transport, on-site gateways, and the on-premise message bus that feeds the Robot SCADA & IOT Server. Every layer is engineered to work together and to keep your operational data on your own network.
Sensing — the edge
Where measurements happen
The deployment starts at the sensor — wired into a Robot terminal or scattered across the facility on a low-power wireless link. We support several sensor classes so you can pick the right radio, power profile, and form factor per location.
Robot-attached sensors
Sensors connected directly to a Robot terminal — scale heads, barcode scanners, temperature probes, contact inputs. Captured at the line and pushed to the Robot SCADA & IOT Server with the same authenticated transport as every other Robot transaction.
LoRaWAN sensors
Long-range, low-power sensors using LoRaWAN — temperature, humidity, weight, and contact monitoring. A single gateway covers most packhouses and cold stores; sensors run for years on a battery.
Wi-Fi sensors
Higher-bandwidth sensors that publish directly to the on-site MQTT broker over the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure — useful where mains power is available and reporting cadence is high.
BLE sensors & beacons
Bluetooth Low Energy sensors and asset beacons for short-range applications — environmental monitoring inside containers, asset tagging, location-aware workflows.
Nordic nRF54Sub-GHz sensors
Our own proprietary sub-GHz sensors — temperature, humidity, weight, and contact monitoring on an in-house radio designed for long range and multi-year battery life. Because we control the full stack, they pair directly with the Radical sub-GHz gateway with no third-party network server in between.
Gateway — the aggregator
Wireless to network
BLE, LoRaWAN, and our proprietary sub-GHz traffic terminate at on-site gateways that translate radio packets into MQTT or HTTP, joining the same network fabric as every other component.
MikroTik BLE gateways
Industrial MikroTik routers with BLE radios act as facility-wide BLE gateways — relaying beacon and sensor traffic from anywhere on the network to the central broker, all from the same hardware that handles routing, Wi-Fi, and switching.
LoRaWAN gateways
Standards-compliant LoRa gateways forward sensor uplinks to the on-premise LoRaWAN Chirpstack server, part of the Robot IOT Server Stack, where they are decoded and per topic pushed onto the MQTT bus.
Radical sub-GHz gateway
Our own proprietary sub-GHz gateway — designed and built in-house alongside the matching sensors. We own the full radio stack end to end, so uplinks land on the same MQTT bus as every other component with no third-party network server in the path.
Network — the bus
On-premise messaging
Every device, gateway, and worker converges on a single on-premise messaging fabric. Nothing leaves the building unless you choose to send it.
MQTT pub/sub bus
An authenticated, password-protected MQTT broker is the central pub/sub fabric — sensor uplinks, gateway traffic, and inter-service messaging all flow here, with separate credential sets for server-side workers and IoT devices.
On-premise LoRaWAN server
An on-premise LoRaWAN network Chirpstack server handles gateway management, device provisioning, downlink scheduling, and per-topic payload decoding — all inside your network, all part of the Robot SCADA & IOT Server Stack.

HTTP / JSON for transactions
Robot terminals and ITPC stations exchange transactional events with the Robot SCADA & IOT Server over HTTP using a JSON message format — the same format used end-to-end through the data pipeline.
Third-party data egress
The platform pushes sensor data out to third-party systems two ways: an outbound JSON-over-HTTP push to a partner endpoint for simple integrations, or — optionally — a RabbitMQ message bus that consumers subscribe to when a higher-throughput, durable queue is required. Pick whichever matches your integration partner's capabilities.
IOT Platform — the brain
Storage, dashboards, and integration
Storage, dashboards, alarms, integration APIs, and observability are all delivered by the Robot SCADA & IOT Server — our on-premise platform that ties the whole stack together. Implementation details stay inside the product so you get a single integrated system, not a list of moving parts to maintain.
Time-series measurement storage
Every measurement, transaction, and event lands in a purpose-built time-series store inside the Robot SCADA & IOT Server. Range queries stay fast across hundreds of millions of rows; compression and retention policies keep storage cost predictable.
Operational dashboards
Live dashboards query the time-series store directly — bay temperatures, container counts, sensor health, throughput trends. The same database the application writes to is the one the dashboards read from.
Alarms & event log
Threshold breaches, sensor offline transitions, container movements, and operator actions are recorded as structured, severity-tagged events with full audit trail and configurable alerting.
Integration APIs
JSON over HTTP, MQTT topics, and an optional RabbitMQ bus expose the platform's data surface to ERPs, traceability systems, and BI tools. Sensor data can be pushed outbound to a third-party HTTP endpoint or, where durability and throughput matter, made available on the message bus for partners to consume — without forcing a rebuild of your existing stack.
The Radical stack is engineered as a single, coherent system from edge sensing through to long-term storage. We design and support every layer — hardware, firmware, gateway, and the Robot SCADA & IOT Server — so that deployments stay maintainable through season after season of real-world use, on your network, under your control.
For details on the platform itself — capabilities, deployment, and integration — see the Robot SCADA & IOT Server page.
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