A utility company needed more than just monitoring, they required a gateway solution to read from 125,000 PLC points and write to 125,000 eletrical points across 5 remote substations. Their legacy system couldn't handle protocol translation at scale, lacked real-time visibility, had no redundancy, and required full downtime for any system changes—risking critical grid operations during maintenance.
Edge: FrameworX EdgeConnect.
Central: FrameworX Enterprise with UI.
DataHub: TagProvider for distributed engineering and close to zero downtime Edge additions.
Protocols: DNP3 (master/slave), Modbus.
Scale: 5 Edges × 25k tags = 125k tags publishing; overall 250k points (125k Modbus reads + 125k DNP3 writes).
Modules: Alarms and Historian (Postgres + TimescaleDB).
Sizing: 48 vCPU and 128 GB RAM (including redundancy).
Redundancy: One pair of full-project redundancy; store-and-forward enabled.
Expanded flow:
5 EdgeConnect collecting data with Modbus and creating datasets + alarms
→ Postgres + TimescaleDB (Historian + Alarms)
→ FrameworX Enterprise showing data in the UI (UI Server).
Edges: 5 units; 25k tags each.
Central Services: Historian + Alarms; UI served by FrameworX Enterprise.
Point Directionality: 125k reads (Modbus) + 125k writes (DNP3) = 250k.
Operations: Distributed engineering via TagProvider; hot-add new Edge without downtime.
Redundancy: 1 pair of full project redundancy.
Continuity: Store-and-forward for resilient ingestion.
DataHub “TapProvider” enabling distributed engineering.
Redundancy (full-project pair) with store-and-forward.
Electrical protocols such as DNP3 (plus Modbus).
The FrameworX solution delivered:
Full Gateway Capability: Data flow handling 250,000 points (125k Modbus reads → 125k DNP3 writes)
Real-time Protocol Translation: Seamless Modbus-to-DNP3 conversion across all 5 sites
Zero Downtime: Hot-add new sites without system interruption via DataHub TagProvider
99.99% Uptime: Full redundancy with store-and-forward eliminated data loss
85% Faster Deployment: New edge sites added in hours instead of days
40% Cost Reduction: Optimized infrastructure (48 vCPU, 128GB RAM) supporting entire redundant system