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Physical estate as a connected
system.

Our Smart Infrastructure & IoT practice engineers the convergence of OT and IT — across buildings, factories, utilities and campuses. Sensor-to-decision, wired and wireless, on the security and governance posture of an enterprise IT estate.

The business problem

Your physical estate already generates data. Most of it is wasted.

Factories, offices, retail estates, substations, warehouses, hospitals — every enterprise operates physical infrastructure generating huge volumes of operational data. Most of it lives in isolated systems: SCADA that talks only to itself, BMS with read-only dashboards, CCTV without analytics, sensor networks collecting data no one analyses.

The cost of that fragmentation is concrete. Energy bills that could drop 20% sit unaddressed. Production lines running below OEE because supervisors cannot see bottlenecks in real time. Retail estates with digital signage that never updates. Security teams watching ten uncoordinated tools and missing the event that matters.

Our Smart Infrastructure practice engineers the physical estate as one integrated system. OT and IT converged under common identity, networking, and security frameworks. Data from sensors, controllers, and supervisory systems flowing into analytics platforms that generate actual operational decisions — not more dashboards.

Measurable outcomes

Numbers our clients report to their boards.

-24%
energy-cost reduction on integrated building-control sites
Across 18 deployments
+14pp
OEE uplift on MES-instrumented production lines
Average over 12 months
-27%
unplanned downtime reduction with predictive maintenance
First-year post-deployment
99.5%
monitored-asset availability under smart-ops RunOps
Multi-site rolling SLA
What we deliver

Nine concrete services inside this one solution.

Every Digital Enterprise engagement is assembled from these modular services. Scope is agreed upfront, priced as fixed-outcome or time-and-materials, and governed by a single steering committee.

SERVICE 01

Smart Building Engineering

BMS, access control, CCTV, AV, digital signage — integrated as one low-voltage estate under a single design, SLA, and operations contract.

SERVICE 02

SCADA & HMI Engineering

Industrial control and visualisation — Ignition, Siemens WinCC, AVEVA, Rockwell — designed for operator productivity, not dashboard aesthetics.

SERVICE 03

Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

MES design and deployment — production scheduling, work orders, quality, OEE, genealogy — integrated with ERP and controls as one value stream.

SERVICE 04

Industrial IoT & Edge

Sensor-to-cloud architectures — industrial gateways, edge computing, time-series databases, stream processing — for industrial environments.

SERVICE 05

OT Security & IEC 62443

OT security — network segmentation, asset discovery, anomaly detection, IEC 62443 alignment. Integrated with our SOC for 24/7 OT monitoring.

SERVICE 06

Predictive & Prescriptive Maintenance

Vibration, temperature, acoustic monitoring + ML models — moving maintenance from calendar-driven to condition-driven to predictive.

SERVICE 07

Digital Twin & Simulation

Digital-twin modelling for production lines, processes, assets — for capacity planning, bottleneck analysis, scenario simulation.

SERVICE 08

Coding, Marking & Traceability

Product coding and traceability — Markem-Imaje, Zebra — serialisation, batch codes, track-and-trace for regulated sectors.

SERVICE 09

Industrial Energy Management

Sub-metering, energy analytics, ISO 50001-aligned systems, tariff optimisation — the lowest-hanging fruit in most industrial operations.

Architecture & approach

Five layers, one integrated enterprise system.

Every Digital Enterprise engagement follows the same reference architecture — adapted to your scale, cloud posture, and compliance requirements. This is the stack-level view we present to steering committees and auditors.

VIRTUAL ERA REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

ISA-95 / Purdue reference architecture

Level 4 — Business
ERP SCM / APS Financial systems EAM Procurement
Level 3 — Operations
MES Quality & SPC BMS head-end Maintenance Genealogy
Level 2 — Supervisory
SCADA HMI Historian VMS (video) Alarm management
Level 1 — Control
PLCs DCS BMS controllers Safety systems Edge gateways
Level 0 — Field
Sensors Actuators Drives Cameras Instrumentation
Related capabilities

Capabilities that work alongside this one.

Most engagements combine multiple capabilities. These are the practices that most frequently operate alongside this one — each with dedicated leads, certified engineers, and standing playbooks.

Engagement shapes

Engagement patterns we see most often.

Different entry points, same practice. Whether the trigger is a strategic initiative, a regulatory deadline, a new system, or an operational problem, the engagement pattern is recognisable.

Engagement · HQ refit

Corporate HQ modernising workplace experience

Integrated meeting rooms, workplace analytics, booking, signage, access control, BMS — one design, not eight separate tenders. 4–7 months.

Engagement · OEE

Manufacturer with opaque line performance

Lines running 24/7 but nobody confident on OEE. MES deployment, instrumentation, daily reporting — 10–18 point uplift in 12 months.

Engagement · Brownfield

Legacy plant with ageing control systems

PLCs and HMIs installed 15–25 years ago with vendor support ending. Structured modernisation with parallel run — no production-stopping big-bang.

Engagement · Retail estate

Retail or banking network rolling out customer-facing signage

Multi-site digital-signage rollout — hardware, content platform, connectivity, operations. 50–500 endpoints under one management plane.

Technology partners

We certify our teams on the platforms that matter.

Digital Enterprise is platform-agnostic by design — we lead with the right tool for your scale and compliance load, not the one that pays us the highest margin. Our engineers hold certifications with every major vendor in this space.

Smart-infrastructure technology partners:

Microsoft Cisco Zebra Markem Bluestar Fortinet
Where we apply it

Sectors we deliver smart infrastructure for.

All industries
Proof, not slides

A tier-2 bank replaced its core in 18 months, zero unplanned downtime.

Phased core banking modernisation across three subsidiaries — delivered against a central-bank audit deadline, a fixed-scope contract, and a zero-downtime commitment the steering committee demanded. The case study documents the scope, risks, and bankable business case.

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Start with a plant or site walk-through.

Two to three days on site. Our engineers walk the production floor or physical estate, interview operators and maintenance, review control-system inventory, and quantify the opportunity. Deliverable: a documented roadmap with phased commercial envelope.

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