Exosite: Murano IoT infrastructure and ExoSense condition monitoring for equipment makers

Exosite combines the Murano IoT platform, ExoSense monitoring application and ExoEdge device software for industrial equipment manufacturers.

Summary

Best for
Equipment manufacturers creating branded monitoring and service offerings.
Less suited to
Projects needing only a radio-network server or a finished measurement instrument.
Deployment
Murano-hosted applications with ExoEdge software on Linux site computers.
Data in
Device HTTP and MQTT APIs, cloud connectors and ExoEdge sources.
Pricing
Public pricing was not established from the reviewed sources.

Overview

Exosite supplies software for equipment manufacturers that want to connect installed products and deliver ongoing monitoring services. Its current product presentation distinguishes Murano, the IoT platform, from ExoSense, the condition-monitoring application built on it. The technical overview also describes ExoEdge, a Python application for Linux computers that connects site data to those services. This layered offering covers device connectivity, application infrastructure and the user-facing monitoring experience. It is aimed at connected equipment and service operations, with published application areas including water systems, rotating machinery, manufacturing, commercial infrastructure and energy.

Offering

ExoSense organises information around digital assets representing equipment, vehicles, systems or sites. Configurable dashboards present measurements through charts, gauges, tables and other panels. Organisation and user hierarchies support deployments serving different teams or customer groups. Its data pipeline includes signals, transformations, rules, status and event handling, while notifications and reports expose the resulting operational information. The documentation also covers maintenance work orders, asset templates and metadata. These functions make the application more specific than a generic time-series chart: it retains the relationship between a reading, the equipment producing it and the people responsible for that equipment.

Products and platforms

  1. Murano

    IoT platform

    Infrastructure and services for connected products and applications.3

  2. ExoEdge

    Device software

    Python client for Linux computers connecting local sources to Murano and ExoSense.3

  3. Exosite Exchange

    Integration marketplace

    Deployable connectors, Insight services and application bundles.3

Technology

The Exosite technical overview describes IoT Connectors for a manufacturer's own hardware and integrations with existing device clouds. Device HTTP and MQTT APIs are documented separately from the application interface. ExoEdge provides a Python-based client on Linux site computers, with source configuration and a Modbus tutorial in the developer documentation. ExoSense also has a device simulator, which can produce waveforms or replay CSV data to exercise the application before connecting hardware. These paths serve different development stages, from an application demonstration through direct device firmware integration to a site computer collecting existing equipment data.

Markets

Exosite's Insight interface supplies the extension mechanism for analytics, transformations and rules in ExoSense. Custom processing can run inline within the data pipeline or through an external interface for more complex computation. Exchange, the company's IoT marketplace, provides application bundles, hardware connectors and Insight services that can be added to a deployment. The company's current positioning focuses on equipment makers developing connected products and recurring services. Its engineering support and professional services complement the software, covering infrastructure, data pipelines and application development as well as the deployment strategy around bringing connected equipment to market.

Company

Exosite was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its current leadership page identifies Hans Rempel, Troy Kopischke and Danny Cunagin as founders and board members, and Steve VanderSanden as Chief Operating Officer. It lists an APAC regional office in Taipei alongside its Minneapolis headquarters; the addresses are also published on the contact page. The company describes manufacturing and engineering as the background to its equipment-focused software business. Current corporate resources include professional services, technical support, product documentation and customer stories, reflecting both platform operation and work with manufacturers deploying their own connected products.

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References

  1. About Exosite: history, leadership and locations (opens in a new tab)
  2. Exosite industrial IoT platform (opens in a new tab)
  3. Exosite software overview (opens in a new tab)
  4. Why Exosite (opens in a new tab)
  5. Exosite contact offices (opens in a new tab)

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