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Powering Global IoT Operations at Scale with Puratos
From Local Action to Global Scale: How Puratos Standardized IoT Operations
Puratos is a global leader in high-quality ingredients for bakers, pastry chefs, and chocolatiers. With over 75 production units in more than 50 countries, innovation is deeply embedded in their DNA — not just in their products, but also in how they produce them. Their bold push toward digitalization, with IoT at its core, reflects this commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
To drive efficiency, quality, and sustainability across its sites, Puratos uses IoT for real-time monitoring of machine health, energy usage, and operational effectiveness. But rather than relying on fragmented, standalone solutions, Puratos partnered with VersaSense to build a scalable, centralized and modern IoT data infrastructure — one that empowers local teams while maintaining global oversight.
CHALLENGES & REQUIREMENTS
Unifying IoT Across Global Sites — Without Fragmentation and Silos
With production sites spread across the globe, Puratos has long recognized IoT as a key enabler for operational excellence. Over the past years, they have strategically embraced IoT to support industrial use cases such as:
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE): real-time insight into machine performance
Predictive Maintenance: anticipating failures before they disrupt production
Energy and Utilities Monitoring: improving efficiency and supporting sustainability goals
Asset Intelligence: tracking and optimizing the performance of specific production assets
However, implementing these applications at scale came with a major challenge: how to deploy and manage IoT consistently across dozens of independent sites, without ending up with fragmented tools, isolated data, and siloed operations.
APPROACH
One Platform, Many Sites: Standardizing IoT at Scale
Instead of deploying isolated systems with a patchwork of tools and technologies for each site, Puratos needed a unified, modern IoT-enabled data infrastructure — one that could scale globally while empowering local teams.
Their vision required a data platform that would:
Support multiple IoT applications, such as OEE, predictive maintenance, and energy monitoring, from a shared infrastructure
Standardize device and data management across all locations
Give local operations teams control over their site’s infrastructure and direct access to their own data
Integrate seamlessly with enterprise historian systems like AVEVA PI, as well as other in-house platforms
The aim wasn’t just to deploy IoT, it was to establish a repeatable, scalable approach that equips every site with the tools to explore, understand, and act on real-time data.
SOLUTION
A Scalable Infrastructure, Built for Local and Global Needs
Each Puratos site is equipped with its own local IoT infrastructure, using LoRaWAN, mesh networking, or NB-IoT depending on the environment, ensuring reliable data collection even in complex industrial settings. Sensor intelligence is embedded at the edge, with data routed through local gateways and uplifted to the cloud.
Local teams benefit from:
Site-specific views of their infrastructure and sensor data
Fine-grained permissions to configure sensors, manage alerts, and set thresholds where relevant,
Intuitive tools to inspect live data and make real-time decisions
Meanwhile, global managers maintain full visibility across all sites, including insight into sensor performance, behaviour, and operational trends.
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INTEGRATION
Seamless Integration, Contextualized Visualization
The VersaSense platform is tightly integrated with Puratos’ enterprise historian systems, including AVEVA PI and local plant historians. Through declarative configuration, sensor data is automatically routed, preprocessed, and injected into the correct asset hierarchies, ensuring it arrives in the right format, with minimal latency and no manual intervention.
At the edge, preprocessing pipelines allow sensor values to be enriched, normalized, or transformed before entering enterprise systems. Whether forwarding raw signals, derived indicators, or application-specific aggregates, the platform ensures consistency across locations and use cases.
Visualization is built in, enabling engineers and operators to create dynamic dashboards that combine real-time and historical views. These dashboards support OEE monitoring, predictive maintenance insights, and energy and utilities analysis, while being tied to real production context. Instead of isolated numbers, users see patterns linked to machines, product lines, or operating shifts.
RESULTS
Scalable Control. Local Empowerment. Real-Time Insight.
With VersaSense’s platform running at multiple sites, Puratos now uses a single IoT system that supports both company-wide coordination and site-specific control.
Sensor data from all sites is now continuously collected and sent to the cloud, giving Puratos a real-time view of its production environment. This central visibility supports better decision-making at the corporate level, while also helping to compare performance across plants and spot areas for improvement.
Locally, operations teams can monitor live data, detect issues early, and make quick adjustments. This has improved response times, reduced downtime, and increased confidence in day-to-day decisions on the shop floor.
Behind the scenes, the platform integrates tightly with enterprise systems like AVEVA PI. Built-in tools let users route and structure data correctly, ensuring a smooth handoff into existing historian and analytics tools, without any custom development needed.
As IoT within Puratos continues to grow, the system grows with them. Regardless if it’s onboarding new sites, rolling out new use cases like energy tracking or predictive maintenance, or adding extra sensors, the platform is ready. Security, access control, and compliance are all built in.
The result: a unified, modern IoT-enabled data infrastructure that empowers every team, local or global, the tools to work with data and improve how things run, day to day.
