Custom Development
We use a range of software and hardware frameworks to solve complex plant data integration challenges. Our core development is built on C++ and C#, with additional support from languages like Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL, PowerShell, HTML5, and others as project needs evolve.
Connecting Systems That Are Old And New
With years of experience in industrial protocols, control systems, and plant equipment, we help customers and partners bridge connectivity gaps whether by integrating proprietary or legacy systems with modern platforms or enabling communication between multiple contemporary systems that need to share critical information across the plant.
Consistent Data Standards Across All Systems
Synchronise information naming, engineering units, ranges, and metadata across multiple systems ensures consistent and accurate data interpretation throughout your industrial environment for better system-wide integration and insight.
Real-Time Data Flow Between Systems
Enable seamless, bi-directional flow of live process data and status updates to maintain continuous, reliable communication between systems for enhanced operational visibility and informed decision-making across operations.
Capture Every Data Point, Even During Outages
Provide intelligent buffering and store-and-forward functionality to ensure historical data is accurately captured without gaps when higher-level communication paths are interrupted and only restored later—disruptions that may last seconds, hours, or even days.
Support Third-Party Application Integration
Provide standard programmable interfaces that enable broader integration, allowing more third-party applications to access, utilise, and interact with industrial data across diverse systems and platforms.
Seamless Migration of Historical Data
Facilitate the seamless migration of historical plant data from one information repository to another, ensuring data integrity, accessibility, and continuity across modernised or restructured systems.
Automated Tag Mapping and Conversion
Automatically translate tag structures, formats, and identifiers between systems to reduce engineering effort, minimise manual errors, and accelerate integration of diverse equipment and platforms.
Custom Development with the IDX Nexus Framework
Clients who adopt the IDX Nexus Framework benefit from these customised developments, which are consistent and easy to manage. These tailored offerings address specific business requirements while adhering to modern standards for secure and reliable information exchange.
Nexus Connector
When information needs to be exchanged with a system that cannot use an existing IDX Connector, a new connector can be developed to enable the data exchange. Examples of existing connectors include OPC DA Server, OPC DA Client, OPC UA Server, OPC UA Client, MODBUS TCP Server, and MODBUS TCP Client.
Nexus Serial Device
This unit offers a robust hardware and firmware framework built on the ESP32-S3 processor, enabling seamless communication with RS232 or RS485 field equipment. It runs Arduino and FreeRTOS for flexible, reliable industrial device integration across diverse automation environments.
Nexus Universal Gateway Device
This unit delivers a hardware and Arduino firmware framework for communicating with field equipment, designed for integration into a wide range of industrial Ethernet and fieldbus systems via HMS Networks’ Anybus CompactCom modules (PROFIBUS-DP, PROFINET-IRT, Ethernet/IP, EtherCAT, and more).
Nexus Web API
This is a published interface enabling third-party applications to interact with the Nexus Framework. The API continues to grow in functionality as new integration use cases emerge, supporting greater flexibility, extensibility, robust performance, and seamless system interoperability.
Features
Modular Design
Built with modular components, the framework enables flexible configuration and targeted functionality, reducing complexity and simplifying maintenance.
Extendable Architecture
Its extendable architecture allows for easy adaptation, supporting evolving technologies, custom requirements, and future system integrations.
Scalable for Growth
Whether applied to a single site or across many sites, the framework scales to meet growing data volumes, system expansion, and complex demands.
Compliant Framework
The framework is standards-based, ensuring broad compatibility, future-proofing, and seamless integration across systems.
Proven Performance
With decades of deployment, this foundational framework is trusted and proven in demanding industrial environments.
Robust Security Controls
Designed with industrial-grade security in mind, it supports encrypted communication, user authentication, and access control to protect critical data.
Benefits
Reduces implementation and operational costs through efficient integration and minimal disruption to existing systems.
Minimises risks associated with system upgrades and migrations by supporting gradual, controlled transitions.
Enables legacy and modern systems to work together, avoiding costly, disruptive single-phase changeovers.
Supports evolving operational needs by enabling modular upgrades, reconfiguration, and expansion.
Provides consistent, real-time data access across platforms, empowering teams with better visibility and insights.
Clear data flows make it easier to diagnose issues, reduce downtime, and streamline support efforts.
Case Studies
Wireless freezer monitoring, alarming, and reporting solution
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StarNET HDLC Controller Gateway solves legacy migration challenge
In August 2016, IDX completed the commissioning of its latest StarNET HDLC gateway development implementation which…
Migrating historical data between historians
Organisations that wish to change the data Historians use are often faced with the challenge of what to do with the data…
Let us Build Your Custom System
Partner with us to create reliable, future-ready infrastructure tailored to your plant’s integration needs. We turn complex requirements into practical, maintainable systems that work.