Why KNOCE
Not a better PLC.
Not another machine-health platform.
KNOCE is an OEM-agnostic industrial operations platform that connects control, edge intelligence, machine health, and maintenance execution — starting in one of the harshest environments in industry. Here is where it sits against the three things you might buy instead, and what is actually available today.
Where KNOCE sits
Three alternatives, and the gap in each
Your OEM's operations platform
Where they're strong: deep integration with their own fleets, thousands of sensors per spread, automation at scale.
The gap: they pull you toward one OEM's equipment. If you run one OEM's fleet end to end, you have their platform. If you run anyone else's — or a mix — you don't.
KNOCE: one operating layer across mixed-OEM pumps, gensets, and turbines, and across the PLCs you already own.
Standalone machine-health platforms
Where they're strong: sensors, large failure libraries, expert-validated diagnostics, published ROI.
The gap: the sensor sees the machine, not the operation. A vibration reading at idle and the same reading at full load are different facts.
KNOCE: every finding carries operating context, the operator's decision, the work order, and the permanent history.
Conventional PLC and edge stacks
Where they're strong: mature Linux-capable controllers, open toolchains, edge software platforms from every major vendor.
The gap: assembled from a controller, an I/O rack, a cabinet, and a separate edge box — four things to buy, mount, and maintain.
KNOCE: 76 channels, deterministic control, and edge compute in one sealed IP69 unit at the machine — or a read-only gateway beside what you have.
And the pair you might buy instead: a CMMS plus an APM
Where they're strong: each is excellent at its half — the APM at seeing condition, the CMMS at executing work.
The gap: they meet through an integration — an alert, an export, a re-typed work order. The latency and the lost evidence live in that handoff, and so does the failure.
KNOCE: the seeing half and the doing half in one system with one database — the finding, its evidence, the decision, and the work order are the same record. Keep your enterprise CMMS if you have one; KNOCE creates the work, your system executes it.
Land and expand
Brownfield today. Greenfield when you're ready.
Phase 1 — Don't touch control
A KNO1-PLC gateway reads the equipment you already run — PLCs, engine ECMs, genset controllers, drives — over OPC-UA, Modbus, or CAN, read-only. Nothing in your control logic changes.
Phase 2 — Add the operations layer
Fleet view, ISA-18.2 alarms, findings with evidence, and work orders — across every asset the gateway can see.
Phase 3 — Consolidate on your schedule
When a panel reaches replacement age, KNO1 becomes the controller — same platform, same data, one fewer cabinet.
Maturity, stated plainly
What's available today
We would rather tell you now than have you find it in diligence. Status as of September 2026; updated as capabilities ship.
| KNO1-PLC — IP69 production unit | In test — processor and communications cards in build and test; pilots start on interim hardware and swap to the sealed unit |
| Pilot deployment hardware (controller and communications-only gateway) | Available today for pilot sites |
| IEC 61131-3 control, direct I/O (KNO1 platform) | Available today |
| Site pipeline → MQTT (JSON, named tags) → cloud ingest, with 50 ms local logging and hourly log forwarding | Available today |
| Native work management, ISA-18.2 alarms, supervisory command flow | Available today in the platform |
| Frac Operations Platform — spread view, unit drill-down, turbine performance, findings | Pilot / preview — software complete; field pilots underway |
| Read-only gateway mode beside existing PLCs | Pilot / preview — native KNO1-PLC stream reads today; OPC-UA and Modbus drivers in development |
| AI anomaly detection with confidence scores | Pilot / preview — models sharpen on your telemetry; analyst review during pilots |
| Remaining useful life estimates | Roadmap |
| On-device inference with zero connectivity | Roadmap — store-and-forward buffering available today |
| MCP agent interface | Engineering preview |
| CMMS / EAM integrations | Jira first; SAP PM, IBM Maximo, ServiceNow, MaintainX, Fiix, UpKeep on the roadmap |
| Facility map overlay — assets placed on a site plan, locally and in the cloud | Roadmap |
| On-site mobile app on the local broker — live data and commissioning without the cloud | Roadmap |
| Two-way supervisory writes to equipment (phase two) | Roadmap — read-only until then |
| 24/7 monitoring service | Launching through KNOCE Certified Monitoring Partners |
| Certifications | TPM 2.0 on device; IEC 62443, UL/CSA, CE/FCC, hazardous-location: see the certification roadmap |
Proof
What we can show you today
Real product screens from the platform, a physics-driven demonstration on a simulated 20-unit spread, and an honest conversation about pilots. Validated pilot results will be published here as they are confirmed — we don't publish numbers we can't stand behind.
Spread Overview — the KNOCE Frac Operations Platform.