Zero per-device fees. Zero vendor lock-in. SENSAT ingests any industrial sensor, speaks every relevant protocol, and runs real AI locally — no cloud round-trip, no hidden licensing, no proprietary traps. Built by GBX for equipment OEMs and the facilities that depend on them.
SENSAT is not a generic industrial PC and not a cloud platform. It is purpose-built hardware running purpose-built AI on a purpose-built sensor network — shipped as a single subsystem.
01
Gateway
A ruggedized edge compute platform for industrial environments. Configured to the deployment — single skid to multi-line facility. Native support for every common industrial protocol, certified-ready for IEC 62443.
02
Sensor Nodes
A catalog of GBX-designed sensor nodes across nine measurement categories: temperature, humidity, pressure, vibration, flow, level, current, gas, AI vision. Wired or wireless.
03
Local AI
Models run on the gateway — not the cloud, not a server somewhere — next to the equipment. Predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, energy optimization, and agentic workflows.
§02 — ARCHITECTURE
How
SENSAT
sits in your
SENSAT lives on the information plane — adjacent to your PLCs, not replacing them. It ingests data from the field, runs models locally, and publishes structured insights northbound to whatever stack you already use.
plant.
↳ FIELD LAYER · SENSORS & EQUIPMENT
Sensor Nodes
temp · vib · flow
current · pressure
PLCs / Controllers
Siemens · Rockwell
Schneider · Mitsubishi
VFDs & Drives
motor data
power · current
AI Vision
CSI · USB · GigE
cameras · thermal
Smart Sensors
IO-Link · HART
3rd-party OEM
Wireless Nodes
LoRaWAN · BLE
battery 10y+
● EDGE LAYER · SENSAT GATEWAY
GBXAI GATEWAY 1 · SENSAT
Protocol Bridge
Modbus · OPC-UA · BACnet
MQTT · LoRaWAN · analog
Local AI Engine
NPU + CPU inference
predictive · agentic · vision
Time-Series Store
on-device historian
store & forward
Security & OTA
IEC 62443 ready
signed firmware · TPM
↳ INFORMATION LAYER · YOUR STACK
SCADA / HMI
Ignition · WinCC
Wonderware
Cloud (Optional)
AWS · Azure · GCP
private cloud
CMMS / ERP
SAP · Maximo
work orders
↑ FIELD LAYER
● EDGE LAYER
↓ INFORMATION LAYER
SENSAT ingests from GBX-designed sensor nodes and any third-party device speaking a standard industrial protocol. PLCs stay in charge of control; SENSAT operates in parallel on the information plane.
Protocol translation, on-device historian, and AI inference all live inside the gateway. Models run locally — your data never has to leave the building.
Northbound integration via MQTT/Sparkplug B, OPC-UA, or REST. Drop SENSAT into your existing SCADA, your existing cloud, or your existing CMMS — or run it stand-alone.
§03 — ENGAGEMENT
No catalog. By design.
SENSAT is not sold off a shelf or split into plans. We partner with a deliberately small number of OEMs and operators at a time — directly, and in confidence.
◆ PRIVATE ENGAGEMENT
Specified around your equipment. Priced to your deployment.
Every SENSAT engagement begins with a conversation, not a quote. We learn your equipment, your protocols, your environment and your constraints — then configure the gateway, the sensor set and the on-device intelligence to fit. No tiers to outgrow, no features you don't need, and a single team accountable for the result.
§04 — CONNECTIVITY
Speaks industrial. Natively.
PLCs are everywhere. So are vibration sensors, flowmeters, BMS controllers, and a thousand kinds of legacy I/O. SENSAT handles the whole surface.
Built for brownfield reality.
Modbus RTU
Modbus TCP
OPC-UA
MQTT
BACnet IP
4–20 mA
0–10 V
RTD / TC
Digital I/O
PROFINET
EtherNet/IP
HART
Most industrial sites are a layered archaeology of equipment from the last thirty years. SENSAT was designed for that — Modbus next to OPC-UA next to a 4–20 mA loop next to a LoRaWAN sensor on the roof. For deep PLC integrations, certified protocol modules mean you don't trade reliability for connectivity.
IO-Link
LoRaWAN
M-Bus
KNX
CAN
DNP3
REST
Native · v1
Phase-2 modules
Roadmap
§05 — SENSOR NODES
GBX sensors. Engineered to match.
A growing catalog of sensor nodes designed by GBX to plug straight into SENSAT — pre-calibrated, pre-provisioned, pre-secured. Bring your own sensors too, of course.
Temperature
PT100 · PT1000 · TC · I²C
Humidity
SHT4x · capacitive · ±2% RH
Pressure
absolute · gauge · differential
Vibration
triaxial · FFT · ISO 20816
Flow
ultrasonic · mag · DP
Level
radar · ultrasonic · capacitive
Current / Power
CT · Hall · 3-phase meter
Gas / Air Quality
CO₂ · VOC · PM · CO
§06 — APPLICATIONS
Built for industries like yours.
SENSAT runs today across cooling, cold chain, utilities, buildings and data-center infrastructure. The groundwork is done; yours is the next deployment.
· F&B / Pharma
Cold chain & refrigeration
Supermarket racks, blast chillers, pharma cold storage. Catches excursions and compressor faults early — locally, even when the connection drops.
· Utilities
Water & wastewater
Pump stations, filtration, aeration. Bridges legacy PLCs with modern AI for energy optimization, in plants with no engineer on site.
● LIVE DEPLOYMENT
Cooling towers & HVAC equipment
SENSAT was first deployed inside cooling-tower equipment — monitoring water temperature, fan vibration, motor current and ambient conditions in real time, running predictive maintenance and efficiency models on the gateway itself. The same pattern fits chillers, dry coolers, evaporative condensers, CRAC/CRAH units and heat pumps.
· Buildings
Smart buildings & BMS
Optimal HVAC control, occupancy ventilation, ESG reporting. BACnet-native — drops into existing BMS without rip-and-replace.
· Data centers
DC mechanical infra
CDUs, rear-door heat exchangers, immersion loops. The cooling intelligence inside the AI factories.
§07 — WHY SENSAT
What only we deliver.
Plenty of vendors sell a gateway, a sensor network, or an AI platform. We engineer all three as one local-first subsystem — and we've been building embedded hardware for over a decade.
01 / LOCAL AI
02 / ONE SUBSYSTEM
03 / OEM-NATIVE
The data never has to leave.
Hardware + sensors + AI, one PO.
Designed to be inside your product.
Inference runs on the gateway. No cloud round-trip, no egress fees, no third-party data exposure. GDPR-friendly by construction. Works air-gapped.
You don't integrate three vendors or write a glue layer between a Moxa box, an Augury fleet and a Litmus license. One part number, one warranty, one support contract.
Co-branded SKUs, OEM-friendly BOM economics, custom firmware modules. Shaped by what equipment makers actually need to ship.
§08 — ABOUT GBX
The team behind SENSAT.
GBX Technology is an American company engineering Edge AI hardware end to end — from board-level design to the firmware and on-device intelligence that runs on it.
Based in Miami, Florida, with 40+ years in electronic hardware and software development, GBX has delivered more than 200 high-end products for clients across the US, Latin America and Europe. Family-founded in 2012 and led by Giancarlo and Stefano Bregante, every prototype is designed and built in our own in-house laboratories.
40+
200+
2012
Miami
Years experience
Products shipped
Family-founded
United States
GBX in-house lab · Miami, FL
→ A PRIVATE CONVERSATION
Let's talk about your equipment.
We take on a limited number of engagements, and each one gets our senior team. Tell us what you're building or running — we'll reply personally with a fit assessment and a clear path to a pilot, usually within a week.