Inductive Automation

Inductive Automation develops Ignition, a SCADA platform for controlling industrial processes and collecting, showing and analysing their data. Its licence places no limit on tags, clients, screens or connections, and once installed on a server the software can be opened on any device with a web browser. The firm is US-based and works with distributors in many regions.

What Inductive Automation offers

• Ignition SCADA — supervisory control, alarming and reporting on one platform.
• Data acquisition — built-in OPC UA drivers for connecting PLCs, plus links to any SQL database.
• Industrial historian — turns an SQL database into a store for time-series process data.
• IIoT connectivity — MQTT support for field devices and sensors.
• Ignition Designer — an integrated development environment that needs no install and allows unlimited concurrent designers.
• Edge IO and training — products for control at the network edge, and training with certification.

Who it works with

Ignition is used across industries and project sizes; water districts are a named group, including the St. Lucie West Services District. System integrators such as Tamaki Control build screens with it.

Key facts

• Based in: United States
• Standards used: SQL, Python, MQTT and OPC UA
• Licensing model: unlimited tags, clients, screens and connections