Has anyone in the forum done anything with this type of platform/technology?
I would like to consider this as a use case for alarm dispersal. Currently we use base station radios.“Walkie Talkies”
Several years ago I interfaced to the base station radio using the voice engine in Ignition. It works to this day, but we are always looking for better ways to reduce downtime.
No I haven't, but I'd be interested to see how you get on if you pursue this route.
After having a look on the website it indicates that it can integrate with your existing SCADA, but it doesn't describe the method of doing this (although I didn't spend too long looking so I could've missed it 
). It may be worth having a chat with them to see how they do this.
If you get any answers, let us know. I'd be interested to see what capabilities they have.
I have a zoom meeting scheduled today at 11:00AM Central Time. They are a startup out of germany.
In some of the emails with the representative which also is the co-founder; they indicated they certainly support opc/ua among other industrial protocols.
That still doesn’t mean it will integrate well with ignition.
Besides the hardware they also sell a “platform” which will likely be how it has to integrate. The watches are ARM based and as of yet I do not know the OS that runs on them. Plausibly some form of Android or maybe QT since I think QT C++ is bigger in Germany.
I will post more after the meeting.
That's a good starting point. It would be great if they support MQTT.
I'm sure when I looked at the Website yesterday it said something about a custom built Android 6.0
To fill in some blanks, yep you are correct the watch runs Android
Under the hood its Node.js/Kubernetes/Docker (on the server side)
Node Red is the javascript function engine
They also have a REST api /json so I am sure Ignition could integrate but I still dont know that pathway.
They are a small startup in Germany which is not a bad thing. either statement.
One thing that could be a show stopper for many people and possibly us is one of their requirements of “No cut off installations” they seemed firm on requiring access which would immediately end behind a firewall. I know my corporation wont like that but maybe a compromise can be made… The watches are super simple and the rep was honest about battery life and wifi. LTS was another muddy water topic, I asked about 5 year support and I obviously did not ask the question properly. There was 0 year support because of the changing volatile nature of phones/watches. Granted promises were made that watches would always be available and they would all always be compatible with their system. I am waiting on a quote for a trial run which may or may not happen depending on price and security.
If you want to do some of your own dev work, you could look into open source smart watches.
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