We were looking at using something like this for a hacked together solution. The customer had field equipment that could not be replaced. It communicated back t

We were looking at using something like this for a hacked together solution. The customer had field equipment that could not be replaced. It communicated back to a gateway via some protocol via 900MHz radio (from what I recall not one of the common ones). The customer found a new gateway that could aggregate the signals, but it only spit out some open TCP data stream. Our equipment is traditionally industrial, so it only supports industrial protocols (modbus, modbus tcp, EthernetIP, etc). It’s also not programmable at a low level (all drivers developed by the application developer). We had used node-red in non-GMP environments before, but this was very much a GMP environment. What we figured out was that it would be impossible to qualify and validate the code base by any means that would satisfy QA. So…great for labs and pre-manufacturing (development) where you have a bunch of skids or equipment that talk different protocols, but a difficult to use in any validated environment. Now, being open source, it would be great if someone took the base application and built the other tools around it that would make it great for manufacturing where there are more strict regulations. Maybe Siemens is headed that way since they are rolling it.