Case study

Challenge

Operating in more than 150 countries, the company faced a fragmented ecosystem of over 40 gateway types across its operations. This complexity led to inefficient device management, higher support costs, and delays in deploying new digital services.

To address these challenges, the organization required a globally certified, secure IIoT gateway family capable of reliably connecting pumps, sensors, and treatment systems to cloud applications. The solution needed to:

• Support Serial, Ethernet, and LTE radio connections across multiple countries for reliable remote monitoring.

• Scale seamlessly across diverse business units.

• Comply with IEC 62443 cybersecurity standards.

• Remain flexible to accommodate future use cases.

Additionally, the customer was evolving toward modern containerized applications and requires support for both containerized and non-containerized environments across different units. With part of their infrastructure built on AWS, the solution must also provide straightforward connectivity to their applications.

Solution

The company adopted Eurotech’s industrial gateway family as its standard IIoT platform. The family of gateways combine compact hardware with powerful lifecycle management capabilities, making them ideal for global deployment and long-term scalability.

key features include

• Ready for global deployment, with international regulatory and carrier certifications and future 5G compatibility
• Integrated provisioning, provisioning, remote updates, certificate management, cloud connections including AWS and secure access, thanks to Eurotech Everyware Software Framework (ESF) and Everyware Cloud (EC),
• Software frameworks and management platform based on open standards and open-source code to avoid vendor lock-in
• Built-in cybersecurity by design, aligned with IEC 62443 standards, including secure boot, signed firmware, and hardware root of trust
• Powerful ARM CPU, supporting edge processing, container management, secure connectivity, remote access, and device management
• Single-SKU design for easing deployment and logistics

This unified, future-proof platform simplified device management while ensuring the highest levels of security and reliability.

Results

By adopting Eurotech’s hardware and software solution, the company consolidated its diverse range of gateways, significantly reduced operational complexity, streamlined device management, and cut support overheads across tens of thousands of sites worldwide.

The standardization also enabled faster time-to-market, leveraging Eurotech’s global certification expertise to enable global roll-out. Security and compliance were reinforced through adherence to international standards; a critical factor for essential infrastructure providers.

With its 5G-ready design and scalable architecture, the solution delivered a secure, reliable, and globally deployable IIoT connectivity foundation, empowering the company’s digital transformation journey and long-term resilience.