Industrial Remote Control.

Your connected devices, from cloud to field.
Definitions blur together in a commercial world where everyone makes up their own. "What" all these devices do matters little if no weight has been given to "how" they do it. Our infrastructure handles the how.

The need.

You have machines, sensors, or actuators distributed across a plant, a power grid, or remote installations. You need to monitor them, update them, manage them remotely and securely, while at the same time collecting data. Generic IIoT platforms are designed for something else: they live only in the cloud, or only on embedded, or they leave security out. Industrial reality requires an infrastructure that starts in the data center and reaches all the way to the last radio sensor. With no gaps.

The solution.

M4SS designs, deploys, and manages S451, a technology that covers every layer: M4SS-managed cloud servers, encrypted WireGuard® communications with our Rust controller, industrial gateways based on the M4SS Linux® Embedded Machine (a hardware-agnostic Yocto-Linux distribution), Communication Data Module (CDM) connected to the gateway via RS-485, and downstream of the CDM, field sensors and actuators connected via a proprietary radio protocol on LoRa® at 2.4 GHz. The CDM firmware is written in Rust by choice: memory safety in a device that communicates over radio is not a detail. OTA (Over-The-Air) updates are encrypted, authenticated, and it's a continuous process, not an initial state (as required by the recent EU CRA Regulation).

Geographic distribution of devices connected to the M4SS remote control infrastructure. For each device, the date and time of the last data exchange with the remote control infrastructure are shown.

Right now M4SS is orchestrating 0 active nodes distributed across 0 countries, with a time of seconds since the last data exchange.

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Technologies. The S451 approach.

  • Yocto Project® / OpenEmbedded: M4SS Linux® Embedded Machine distribution, reproducible and hardware-agnostic.
  • WireGuard®: mesh network governed by a proprietary Rust controller with distributed keystore and config-cache.
  • NATS®: clustered broker across three independent cloud regions (Hetzner Nuremberg, Scaleway Paris, Hetzner Finland), so losing a single data center doesn't stop the platform.
  • CDM: proprietary hardware, Rust firmware, in pre-production and undergoing CRA certification. Encryption and authentication integrated into the firmware. Proprietary radio protocol on LoRa® at 2.4 GHz, SRD band compliant with ETSI EN 300 440.
  • Compliance: the infrastructure is designed for the Cyber Resilience Act (M4SS is a producer of products with digital elements) and for the NIS2 Directive (M4SS is an important NIS2 entity registered with ACN, Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale).

Technical deep-dive: the S451 platform has a dedicated website.
Go to s451.net.

Real cases

The case histories of clients who chose M4SS's S451 technology:

  • Energika: energy sector
  • Interpuls: manufacturing and livestock
  • FM Metal Fastener: manufacturing
  • FLOW: automotive sector (oil & lubricants)
  • Tecno Group: energy sector (case history coming soon...)

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