Gateways, per-point subscriptions, installation windows — you pay for months before the first insight exists. Value arrives after the budget review that kills the pilot.
Hardware-first is a business model, not an architecture.02
“Vibration tells you everything.”
An accelerometer can't see that cycles swell every August, that a recipe changed on the quiet, or that one shift outperforms on one compound. The context lives in data you already have.
A machine is more than its bearings.03
“Your data, in our cloud.”
For many manufacturers — pharma above all — plant data leaving the perimeter is a non-starter before the conversation begins.
If the intelligence needs your data to leave, it was never yours.04
“More sensors, more insight.”
More streams into the same generic models produce more alarms, faster. Noise scales beautifully.
A pile of sensors is not intelligence. It's a pile of sensors.
THE MARKET WANTS TO INSTRUMENT YOUR FACTORY.
ATHERYA WANTS TO READ IT. IT'S ALREADY WRITTEN.
READ BEFORE YOU RETROFIT
01
Direct OPC-UA and SQL — zero retrofit to start.
Atherya reads SCADA/PLC values over OPC-UA and historians in any SQL dialect, plus CMMS, ERP and WMS, through ten read-only data contracts. Schema discovery maps a new source in minutes: onboarding is a mapping, not a project.
02
History first.
Before installing anything, Atherya distills your existing years into each machine's behavioral signature — per recipe, per season. It found a factory defect between twin presses this way.
03
Your data stays in your plant.
On-premise by default: the full brain runs on hardware inside your facility, keeps working offline, and only compact, classified surfaces cross an allowlist-first egress firewall.
04
Sensors where they earn their place.
Once signatures exist, the evidence shows exactly where an extra sensor would pay. Hardware last, not first.
01 · “Why do I need new sensors before you've read the ones I have?”
02 · “Where does my plant's data physically live — and who else can reach it?”
03 · “What did six years of my historian tell you? …You never read it, did you?”
The cheapest sensor in your plant is the database nobody opened.
6 years — raw history · 6M — readings · 42 — machines · 5 — asset families
One real plant, rubber moulding, northern Italy.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
No mystery. No theatre.
Which protocols and sources are supported?
OPC-UA direct from SCADA/PLC, SQL historians in any dialect, OData/REST (SAP Gateway, MES), plus CMMS, quality, shifts, downtime and WMS movements — ten read-only contracts.
Do we need edge hardware?
No. Atherya runs on standard hardware, on-premise in your facility or in the cloud — your choice. On-premise, it keeps working even when the network is down.
Is a cloud connection required?
No. The local database is the source of truth; the cloud is an optional control plane behind a data-egress firewall.
We already installed vibration sensors — wasted?
No. Atherya ingests them as one more source and gives them the process context that was missing.
YOUR PLANT · YOUR DATA · THE PROOF
Before you buy another sensor, let's read the data you already have.
One real plant had six years of answers sitting in a database nobody had opened. Yours probably does too. Cheaper to find out than to instrument.