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jkid | 1 year ago

How will this work with legacy systems? When I would go out to do site installations at concrete plants, the control systems were these antiquated systems cobbled together by CommandAlkon (the major player for the last 20 years). Would you replace that software? Often times these servos and sensors were deeply integrated into the vendor solution, so how could Synnax work in this environment, if at all?

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elham|1 year ago

Not super familiar with CommandAlkon/Construction space so would love to hear more on that end.

To address hardware deeply integrated with proprietary systems - our current mode of dealing with this is building out the middleware to allow these systems to integrate with Synnax - or a protocol that can be used to communicate with these devices. But we also try to make it a developer-friendly tool so that if people already familiar with these systems want a quick way to connect Synnax to their existing systems - they can do so using our Python, Typescript, or C++ libraries.

Our goal would be to substitute these cobbled-together systems for a more uniform and airtight system. We hope to do that by starting with sub-scale preliminary integrations on already-in-development setups/expansions that can be a base for expanding out to the rest of the system.