Cedalo's enterprise MQTT platform and Portainer's edge orchestration give industrial teams one way to move data and one way to deploy applications, from a single machine to every site in the fleet.
Machines and lines are getting more connected, and automation needs real-time, complete operational data to work with. But cloud connectivity can't be guaranteed on a plant floor or offshore, and multi-site operations need one standardized way to move data and manage applications rather than a different integration built for every site. Left unaddressed, that gap compounds through data silos, one-off scripts, unmanaged MQTT brokers, inconsistent deployments, and digitalization efforts that stall before they scale past the pilot.
Cedalo and Portainer address both halves. Cedalo's Mosquitto Pro platform provides every site with a reliable, secure MQTT backbone, along with clustering, multi-broker support, and observability needed for enterprise deployments. Portainer deploys and manages that backbone, and everything running alongside it, consistently across every site, from a single edge gateway to a full fleet.
Protocol converters for OPC UA, Modbus, and proprietary protocols are deployed and managed via Portainer, translating everything onto one MQTT backbone, a single, clean transport layer instead of a bespoke integration per protocol.
An ISA-95-inspired unified namespace (enterprise / site / area / line / machine / tag) gives every application and service the same real-time source of truth, structured consistently across the fleet.
Analytics, automation, and applications run close to the machines, consuming clean MQTT data. Deploy once, roll out everywhere via Portainer, with lifecycle, versions, and rollbacks managed centrally as it scales from one machine to many sites.
Covering the full operational lifecycle of industrial data together, from fleet-scale deployment of Cedalo Pro Mosquitto to resource-constrained edge gateways with no per-device manual setup. Zero configuration drift as broker security policies, credentials, and updates are managed fleet-wide from a single Portainer control plane. Uninterrupted data collection throughout outages with automatic backfill on reconnect.
Each site, whether a plant floor or an offshore rig, runs its own local Mosquitto broker alongside a Portainer edge agent, collecting from field devices even when the link to central is down. Portainer orchestrates deployments across all sites from a single control plane, and each site's broker bridges its data to a central Cedalo Mosquitto Pro broker cluster once connected.
Most industrial sites are running years, sometimes decades, of accumulated hardware with legacy PLCs next to newer sensors and an array of different vendors and protocols, all on a network that wasn't built with any of them in mind. Pairing MQTT with container-based deployment to keep data moving means reliability doesn't come at the cost of complexity. Brokers, edge agents, and applications install the same way and are managed from the same place, no matter how mismatched the underlying hardware is. Here's what that combination delivers in practice.
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