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🐟 This is what a control system engineer’s fish tank looks like.

Yep, that’s Justin's ordinary aquarium made SMART using Innius and an Allen-Bradley Micro 850 PLC system. It has a temperature sensor, water level sensor, and relay outputs to control the heater, air bubbler, and lights. The lights are on a schedule and the control system maintains the tank temperature within one degree of the setpoint.

Collecting the sensor values and other PLC data is simple—the system is connected via Wi-Fi and using standard technologies such as MQTT, data can be displayed in a dashboard and on a mobile app. Configuring this using the innius platform was straightforward through a web page interface.

One might even say the setup went quite swimmingly! 🐠 Nice work, Justin! We can’t wait to see how this thing scales! 🙄 (Ok no more fish puns.)

Is your machine monitoring platform simple enough that you’d set it up at home? Why not⁉️

Meet Justin, Senior Controls Engineer at oos. He knows how to connect devices and collect purposeful data from the edge. He understands industrial automation, controls, and communications. It’s even rumored that he plays the banjo... 🪕

We asked Justin about all this and more in a brand new article!

Justin Pennypacker, Controls Engineer Meet Justin! He's a Senior Controls Engineer at oos, working with industrial automation for process control and machine control system integrators. We sat down with Justin to talk about who he is, what capabilities he brings to oos, and the future of manufacturing.