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One connected view across every industrial asset you run

From manufacturing plants to mines, ports, rail corridors and remote sites, we deploy and manage the wireless sensing networks that turn distributed industrial assets into real-time operational intelligence.

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Predictive maintenance and live visibility across seven industrial worlds.
1,950
hours of unplanned downtime avoided in a comparable heavy-industry deployment, with 300 sensors
A maintenance engineer in hi-vis assesses heavy rotating plant on a rugged tablet inside an Australian processing facility, a subtle teal data overlay across the equipment.
Tall industrial process towers and steel pipework rising against a warm Australian sky.
An aerial view of an Australian industrial precinct with port and rail infrastructure linked by a managed sensor network.
The problem behind the problem

Most industrial failures are discovered after the asset has already stopped

Industrial organisations are under increasing pressure to reduce downtime, improve productivity, optimise asset performance, and meet growing safety, compliance, and sustainability obligations. Traditional maintenance and monitoring approaches are often reactive, fragmented, and reliant on limited operational visibility.

Legacy SCADA, PLC, and telemetry systems remain critical for operational control, but they were not designed to support large-scale, low-power sensing across thousands of distributed assets.

Increased maintenance and operational costs, and reduced asset life.

Higher safety and environmental risks, limited predictive capability.

Unplanned downtime and production losses, found after the line stops.

As infrastructure becomes more connected and operational complexity increases, organisations require real-time operational intelligence, predictive analytics, and scalable industrial IoT platforms. Without real-time visibility into asset health and operational performance, organisations face delayed operational decision-making across the board.

What does industrial automation mean at Meshed?

Industrial automation is the shift from manual rounds and reactive repairs to continuous, data-driven operations. We add low-power wireless sensing and AI analytics across the assets your control systems were never built to reach, then feed that intelligence straight into the platforms your teams already run.

Using industrial-grade sensing, we give engineering and operations teams continuous visibility into the health and performance of critical plant and infrastructure. Real-time alerts and automated workflows surface problems early, so teams reduce downtime, lower operational risk, and prevent costly failures before they occur.

It applies across fixed and mobile assets, from motors, pumps, conveyors and pipelines to tanks, structures, utilities and mobile equipment. Monitoring can include vibration, temperature, pressure, flow, level, corrosion, energy, gas and asset location, across metropolitan plants, regional facilities and remote sites.

A maintenance engineer in hi-vis inspects a fixed pump and valve skid on a rugged tablet at an outdoor Australian industrial site.

The goal is not simply greater visibility. It is real-time, evidence-led decisions that improve reliability, safety, sustainability and long-term asset value.

Find your industry, and the operation behind it

Industrial automation looks different in a steel mill, a mine, a port and a rail corridor. Select the world that matches your operation.

Catch the fault signature weeks before the breakdown.

Real-time vibration, temperature and pressure monitoring across motors, pumps, conveyors and rotating equipment on the factory floor, with telemetry into the systems you already run.

Assets and signals
  • Motors
  • Pumps
  • Conveyors
  • Robotics
  • Vibration
  • Temperature
  • Pressure
  • Energy
Explore smart manufacturing
One network across the pit, the plant, the rail and the camp.

Asset condition, environmental and utility monitoring across crushers, conveyors, remote infrastructure and FIFO facilities, over long range without cellular at each point.

Assets and signals
  • Crushers
  • Conveyors
  • Bore water
  • Tailings
  • Dust
  • Vibration
  • Emissions
  • Remote assets
Explore smart mining
Keep coastal infrastructure ahead of corrosion and wear.

Vibration, corrosion and environmental telemetry across conveyors, cranes, wharves and rail in harsh saltwater port environments, integrated into a GIS digital twin.

Assets and signals
  • Conveyors
  • Cranes
  • Wharves
  • Corrosion
  • Salinity
  • Vibration
  • Rail stress
  • Dust
Explore smart ports
See every asset, utility and structure across a moving site.

Plant tracking, structural and environmental monitoring across large, complex and temporary construction sites, from groundworks through to operational handover.

Assets and signals
  • Plant tracking
  • Concrete cure
  • Structural tilt
  • Dust
  • Noise
  • Vibration
  • Diesel level
  • Utilities
Explore smart construction
Manage high-mass, high-heat plant by condition, not calendar.

Wireless vibration and condition monitoring across furnaces, kilns, mills, large drives and continuous-process plant that cannot simply be switched off, retrofitted with no production disruption.

Assets and signals
  • Large drives
  • Mills
  • Gearboxes
  • Bearings
  • Vibration
  • Temperature
  • Lubrication
  • Power quality
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Reach the well pads, tank farms and pipelines wiring never could.

Condition, pressure, level and corrosion monitoring across distributed and remote oil and gas assets, added without trenching or new cabling and managed for you.

Assets and signals
  • Pumps
  • Compressors
  • Pressure
  • Flow
  • Tank level
  • Corrosion
  • Gas
  • Remote sites
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Light up the corridors, bridges and precincts between inspections.

Structural, vibration and flow telemetry across rail corridors, bridges, lineside plant and transport precincts, with no mains power or SIM card at each point.

Assets and signals
  • Bridges
  • Track stress
  • Structural strain
  • Vibration
  • Fixed plant
  • Corrosion
  • Flow
  • Air quality
Detailed page coming soon
A hi-vis technician inspecting a row of electric motor-driven pumps on a modern Australian factory floor, a restrained teal data ring on the rotating coupling.
A fixed ore-processing conveyor and crusher structure in red-earth Australian mining country, teal network nodes along the plant.
Steel wharf and shiploader structures at an Australian bulk-handling port, teal corrosion-monitoring overlay on the marine steelwork.
A large active Australian construction site with tower cranes and concrete structures, teal asset-tracking overlay across the plant.
The base of a large rotating drive and overhead pipework inside a heavy-processing plant, a teal data ring rising from a motor casing.
A fixed wellhead and compressor skid at a remote arid Australian site at golden hour, teal data rings rising from a pipe flange.
A lineside steel rail bridge truss in flat daylight, a small sensor enclosure on the steel and subtle teal data rings, no train present.

Two Meshed solutions run across every industrial world above: Connected Water and Smart Asset Management

One managed system, from the sensor to the enterprise platform

By combining industrial-grade sensing, managed connectivity, cloud analytics, AI-driven insights and predictive maintenance, we move operations from reactive maintenance to intelligent, data-driven decisions.

Predictive

Predictive maintenance and condition monitoring

Continuous condition data forecasts equipment failure ahead of time, so teams intervene on their own schedule, not the machine's. The shift from reactive repair to planned, evidence-led intervention.

Real-time telemetry and operational analytics

Operational data, analysed as it arrives.

Remote asset monitoring and automation

Across metropolitan, regional and remote sites.

Smart utilities and digital infrastructure

Networks, metering and environmental assets.

AI-enabled operational intelligence

Act on signal across thousands of telemetry points.

Integration into SCADA, GIS, ERP, Digital Twin and enterprise platforms

Lands inside the systems you already run.

A scalable, end-to-end asset intelligence ecosystem

We combine industrial IoT sensors, managed networks, cloud platforms and operational analytics into one connected system, designed to bolt onto the control systems you already run.

Step 01

Deploy industrial IoT sensors

Sensors are installed across critical assets including motors, pumps, conveyors, pipelines, tanks, HVAC systems, electrical infrastructure, and mobile equipment.

Step 02

Secure LoRaWAN connectivity

Data is transmitted securely using public or private LoRaWAN infrastructure designed for low-power, long-range industrial telemetry.

Step 03

Real-time data acquisition

Operational telemetry is collected continuously and securely delivered into cloud-based operational platforms and analytics environments.

Step 04

Analytics and operational intelligence

Dashboards, alerts, AI analytics, and predictive maintenance models provide engineering and operations teams with actionable insights.

Step 05

Enterprise integration

Data integrates seamlessly into SCADA, GIS, ERP, Asset Management, Digital Twin, and Business Intelligence systems to support decision-making at scale.

Why operators choose us

Device and platform agnostic, integrated into the systems you already run

For industrial operators, utilities, infrastructure owners, and asset-intensive organisations seeking greater operational visibility and reliability, we are the industrial automation and IoT partner that delivers scalable, secure, and real-time operational intelligence.

Because we are device and platform agnostic, we can source and deploy the most suitable industrial-grade sensors for your specific operational requirements, ensuring accurate, reliable, and real-time data collection across critical assets and infrastructure.

Our open integration approach enables seamless connectivity between sensor data and existing enterprise platforms, including automation systems, SCADA, asset management platforms, AI and machine learning environments, predictive maintenance systems, GIS, Digital Twin, and operational analytics. This gives organisations the flexibility to leverage best-of-breed technologies while protecting existing infrastructure investments.

Operators monitor live asset dashboards across a wall of screens in an industrial operations control room.

From a 300-sensor pilot to enterprise-wide predictive maintenance

50+
process interruptions prevented
1,950
hours of unplanned downtime avoided
300
sensors in the initial pilot
200,000
connected sensors, water-utility network design

Global steel manufacturer

We are delivering a large-scale industrial IoT and digital asset monitoring program across steel manufacturing and port operations throughout Australia, New Zealand, and the broader Asia-Pacific region. Thousands of industrial-grade vibration sensors are being deployed across critical assets including motors, drives, hydraulic systems, conveyors, and autonomous robotics to enable predictive maintenance and improve operational reliability. The initial pilot deployment delivered exceptional operational outcomes, preventing more than 50 process interruptions and avoiding approximately 1,950 hours of unplanned downtime using just 300 deployed sensors. Following the success of the pilot, the program has now transitioned into full-scale deployment, with thousands of additional vibration, pressure, temperature, and level sensors being rolled out across the company's manufacturing and logistics operations to support enterprise-wide operational intelligence and predictive maintenance strategies.

Major Australian water utility

We deployed a private, region-wide network designed to support up to 200,000 connected sensors for sewer monitoring, flood sensing, remote asset telemetry, and digital water management applications. The network backbone is using managed IP67-rated gateways which have been strategically placed across assets using our in-house RF planning and network design expertise.

Live vibration and condition-monitoring dashboard, three-axis vibration, acceleration and temperature trends for rotating plant
Live vibration and condition monitoring, the real operational view behind the steel deployment.

How we compare to traditional approaches

Traditional automation, SCADA and telemetry systems

  • Designed for limited critical infrastructure visibility
  • Expensive to scale across distributed assets
  • Limited predictive maintenance capability

Meshed Industrial Automation Platform

  • Supports thousands of low-power connected sensors
  • Real-time operational intelligence and AI analytics
  • Rapid deployment across metro, regional, and remote environments
  • Open standards-based integration architecture
  • Lower operational costs and scalable deployments
  • Fully managed connectivity and operational support

The specifications

Carrier-grade infrastructure, end to end, hosted in Australia and built to integrate with the systems you already run.

Network and platform

Private and public LoRaWAN network infrastructure, the carrier-grade MeshedX LoRaWAN Network Server on the enterprise edition of The Things Stack, with 99.9%+ network uptime SLAs.

Security and hosting

End-to-end encryption from device to application, with cloud hosting on Government-certified AWS infrastructure.

Devices and connectivity

A wide range of LoRaWAN Class A, B and C devices as well as NB-IoT equivalents, IP67-rated industrial gateways and sensors, and LTE, Ethernet, and Satellite backhaul support.

Integration and intelligence

Integration support for SCADA, GIS, ERP, BI, and Digital Twin systems, with AI and ML and predictive maintenance integration capability.

An aerial view of the Australian coast and country, with a managed network linking sites across metropolitan, regional and remote areas.

The questions industrial operations teams ask first

Can Meshed integrate with our existing SCADA or ERP systems?

Yes. Our systems are designed using open integration standards and APIs, enabling seamless integration with SCADA, GIS, ERP, Asset Management, and Business Intelligence platforms.

How secure is LoRaWAN for industrial environments?

LoRaWAN provides enterprise-grade end-to-end encryption from the sensor device through to the application layer. Our networks are hosted on secure Australian AWS infrastructure with managed operational support.

Can the platform support remote and regional assets?

Yes. Our systems are specifically designed for large-scale distributed infrastructure and support metropolitan, regional, underground, and remote operational environments.

What types of assets can be monitored?

We support monitoring of pumps, motors, conveyors, pipelines, tanks, valves, electrical assets, HVAC systems, environmental infrastructure, and mobile equipment.

How long do the sensors operate on battery?

Depending on the use case and reporting frequency, many industrial IoT sensors can operate for 5 to 15 years on battery power.

What operational benefits can organisations expect?

Benefits typically include reduced downtime, lower maintenance costs, improved operational efficiency, faster incident response, enhanced safety, and better long-term asset performance.

Does Meshed provide fully managed services?

Yes. We provide end-to-end managed services including network deployment, device management, cloud platforms, operational monitoring, analytics, and integration support.

How quickly can a deployment be operational?

You can get your asset intelligence project going in days not weeks. Using our Industrial IoT Starter Kit the sensors and gateways come pre-configured ready to immediately report data to the dashboard provided and/or your own systems as soon as they are installed on site. The sensors are battery operated so no need to install additional power connections and we have solar powered gateway options as well.

Start building smarter, more resilient industrial operations

Whether you are looking to reduce downtime, improve asset reliability, enable predictive maintenance, or deploy large-scale industrial IoT infrastructure, we can help accelerate your operational transformation.