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Data connectivity & transportation, end to end
From the edge of your plant floor to the enterprise and the cloud — one connected data pipeline.
Your industrial data, wherever it needs to go
White Room Automation designs and deploys the connectivity layer that unifies and moves operational data across your industrial, corporate and cloud network architectures. We acquire data at the edge, transport it securely with its full context, and deliver it — governed and analytics-ready — to the platforms that turn it into decisions.
Whatever your systems or suppliers, our vendor-neutral team builds a reliable, standards-based data pipeline that keeps your data accurate, secure and available across the entire enterprise.
Build once, use everywhere
Stop building one-off data pipelines
Most OT/IT convergence happens one use case at a time — and when the next use case arrives, whatever was built for the last one falls short. To bridge the gap, teams typically reach for one of two workarounds, and both create long-term problems.
Repurpose legacy connections
Teams reach for this because the OT/IT bridge is already in place — frequently a data historian linking the two layers. But these platforms are expensive and usually licensed by data-point count, so every point added purely to pass data through drives up licensing cost, while forcing a system meant to be a data consumer to act as a data pipeline.
Add another point tool
Bolt new connectivity software onto the OT infrastructure for that one use case. With no standardized method it repeats with every project — leaving a sprawl of overlapping data pipelines, one per use case, that are costly to secure, govern and maintain.
There's a better way — build the data layer once, as a standard, so neither workaround is ever needed again:
What is a Unified OT Data Layer (UODL)?
A foundational, enterprise-wide OT data layer that makes your operational data available — securely and without friction — to every team and application that needs it. It goes beyond simply gathering data into a common address space (as a Unified Namespace, or UNS, does) to govern how that data is enabled, federated and managed across the enterprise, including its security, reliability and context. The result is a single open-standard foundation where every team works from the same real-time view of operations — speeding decisions and eliminating the miscommunication that comes from fragmented data.
The Unified OT Data Layer vision is championed by our partner Matrikon, whose platform we deploy to make it real.
The data journey
Four stages, one connected pipeline
1 · Edge Data Acquisition
Connect PLCs, controllers, sensors, historians, DCSs, RTUs, power meters and databases — across every major vendor system. Plug-and-play edge gateways collect data with no custom programming required.
2 · Secure Transport with Context
Move data reliably with store-and-forward integrity across LAN, cellular (4G/5G) and satellite links. Standardized metadata and preserved ISA-95 hierarchy mean data arrives complete, in context, and never lost — even after an outage.
3 · OT/IT Convergence
Bridge the gap between operations and enterprise systems securely. Outbound-only, standards-based connectivity — aligned with IEC 62443 — gives IT and business teams governed access to OT data without exposing control systems to risk.
4 · Cloud & Enterprise Integration
Deliver governed, analytics-ready data to Azure, AWS, Microsoft Fabric, MQTT/Sparkplug B brokers, databases, historians and enterprise platforms — enabling real-time analytics, AI and digital transformation.
Why it matters
Connectivity done right protects your project
Data connectivity is often treated as an afterthought — until it becomes the bottleneck. Poorly defined requirements, interoperability gaps, weak security and unplanned complexity can delay commissioning, cause outages, and drive costs from thousands into the millions.
White Room Automation mitigates these risks by:
- Designing the right data architecture early, before problems compound
- Providing vendor-neutral advice to resolve interoperability issues quickly
- Engineering secure, outbound-only paths that protect OT systems
- Building in store-and-forward reliability so no data is ever lost
- Documenting standards, governance and change-management for long-term stability
How we engage
Consulting & Architecture
We assess your systems and design a connectivity architecture that improves the reliability, security and business value of your data — from a single site to a global fleet.
Deployment & Troubleshooting
We implement, commission and optimize your data pipeline — and quickly diagnose interoperability, configuration and performance issues to restore reliable data flow.
Training & Enablement
We equip your team with the knowledge to operate and extend your connectivity systems, with training tailored to your project, platforms and goals.
Development & Integration
Backed by 21+ years of hands-on integration experience, we develop robust new integrations or enhance existing ones — connecting the systems standard products don't reach.
Let's design your data pipeline
From edge to cloud, our experts build connectivity you can rely on.
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