Boolytics | Data historian & control platform

Data from your installation, put to work

Boolytics collects, stores and processes the data from your plant, your machines and your buildings — from a single energy monitor to a full energy management system. Industrial hardware on site, Belgian datacenters behind it, open standards throughout, and the option to grow from monitoring into active control.

It grew out of what Boolean does every day: industrial automation and PLC programming. That makes it deliberately not a generic IoT platform. The same controller that measures a production line or a building today can steer it tomorrow — peak avoidance, battery and PV control, climate control — without replacing the hardware.

Boolytics in use: consumption per measurement point, alongside the health of the equipment doing the measuring.

Capture

Every protocol: Modbus, EtherCAT, BACnet, MQTT, M-Bus
Already speaks Beckhoff, IXON, Fortinet and Microsoft environments out of the box
Local capture at the PLC or edge component
One central, time-series store — not another silo
API-first, so your FMS, EMS, BI or AI tools plug straight in

Steer

Alarms and threshold-based automatic actions
Load balancing and peak avoidance
Secure remote control of connected assets
Scales from pure monitoring to full plant or building control

Two layers, one platform

On site: an industrial gateway

A Beckhoff PLC in your own installation collects the measurement and control data, scaled to the job — from a compact unit to a configuration with several decentralised I/O islands.

Industrial hardware rather than consumer equipment, for four reasons: higher reliability and a longer service life; parts and long-term support that stay available for years; the same hardware can actively steer the installation later, not just measure it; and the architecture is extensible, so new meters and protocols get added without starting over.

It connects over your own Ethernet network, or over a 4G router when you would rather keep it off the company network entirely. If the connection to the datacenter drops, data is buffered locally. Nothing is lost.

In the datacenter: the Boolytics cloud

A Tier III datacenter in Brussels, with a backup in a second Tier III datacenter in Belgium. Built on open standards — MQTT over TLS and Sparkplug — chosen deliberately to keep you out of vendor lock-in and to keep future integration straightforward.

A data point every fifteen minutes by default, the same quarter-hour rhythm Fluvius works in, with extra points recorded automatically when a reading deviates further in between. Data stays available for at least two years, and raw data can be exported before anything is removed under the retention policy.

Not limited to electricity, either: water, pressure, temperature, flow and day-ahead energy prices all land in the same place.

CO2, temperature and humidity for one sensor over 24 hours in the Boolytics environment — Three measurements from one sensor over a day, each on its own axis, with min, max and average beside them.

Machines and buildings alike

A production line and an office building look nothing alike, but underneath they are the same problem: equipment that already produces data nobody keeps. Boolytics runs on both, because in both cases it is a PLC that already speaks to the equipment. What changes is which protocols and which meters — not the architecture.

An automated fibre placement machine laying carbon plies over a tail-plane mould

On machines and production lines

Existing energy meters across several electrical panels, integrated rather than ripped out and replaced
Machine and process signals — pressure, temperature, flow, water — in the same store as the electricity
EtherCAT for decentralised I/O, Modbus TCP and RTU where your machines already speak it
Consumption attributed per line, per panel and per asset, so a figure can actually be acted on

For machine builders and plant owners

In buildings

KNX, DALI, SMI and BACnet for building automation, M-Bus for water meters, and the P1/Fluvius port
Energy, comfort and climate in one view, across every building on a site instead of one dashboard per system
Consumption per building, per tenant or per meter — the basis for automatic billing where that is needed
Sits alongside Boolean’s building management system, so monitoring and control share one data layer

For building owners and facility teams

A building's plant room: gas boilers, an expansion vessel and metered heating circuits

Your data, your rules

By default Boolytics runs in a Tier III datacenter in Belgium and your data never touches a public cloud. Need it to stay on-site, or inside the cloud environment you already run? It deploys there too, so ownership and sovereignty stay exactly where you decide.

Tier III datacenter

The default — Belgian, secure, redundant, fully managed.

On-premise

Your data stays on-site, on your own infrastructure.

Your own cloud

Deployed inside the cloud environment you already run.

How you reach your data

Boolytics is one platform, not a product line with fixed tiers. What reporting and visualisation look like is put together per project, from these building blocks:

Periodic reporting by e-mail, in Excel or CSV, on a schedule and without a live dashboard
A Grafana environment with a plugin for straightforward access to your own data, which you can combine with your own sources
The full Boolytics environment — a secured login, optionally through single sign-on with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, with graphs per meter and export

The Boolytics environment showing the status of every site at once — Every site at a glance, with the state of its gateways and devices, before you drill into one.

Equipment status in the Boolytics environment — The health of the measuring chain, next to the measurements themselves.

Monitored while it runs

System status is monitored automatically, and our helpdesk gets an alert when something drifts or fails. A gateway that stops reporting, or a meter that starts returning nonsense, gets picked up and dealt with — not discovered months later when someone opens a report and finds a gap.

That is also why the dashboard shows the health of the measuring chain next to the measurements themselves. A number you cannot trust is worse than no number at all.

An AI agent that watches with you

A dashboard shows you what happened. Getting from there to why it happened usually means someone who knows the installation sitting down with the data. An AI agent can do that watching continuously — either ours, running locally, or one you bring yourself.

Ask your installation a question

The agent has the same data and the same system context you do: which meters exist, what the equipment is doing, what normal looks like on this site. So instead of building a query, you ask — and you get an answer that points at the measurements behind it.

Watches the system and the data continuously, not only when someone opens a report
Helps make sense of what is happening across meters, machines and buildings at once
Runs on our own local agent or on an AI you already use — see below

The Boolytics Assistant answering a question about a site's status — Asking after a site in plain language, and getting its state back in one answer.

Our local agent

Runs on your own installation, next to the data. Nothing leaves for a public model, so the same data policy that covers your measurements covers the questions you ask about them.

Bring your own AI

Already standardised on a model or an assistant of your own? Boolytics is API-first, so your own AI can work from the same data and the same system context ours does.

It grows with the site

Most installations start with monitoring. The platform extends from there, on hardware that is already in place — no second investment to get from measuring to steering.

From monitoring to control

Peak avoidance and load balancing against your own connection capacity
Battery and PV control, with day-ahead energy prices pulled in centrally
PV curtailment when feeding back is not the sensible option
The control logic runs on the PLC on site, not in the cloud, so the installation keeps deciding even when the link does not

Integrations

Fluvius data — historical figures through the Fluvius platform, real-time through a direct connection to the meter
Facility management software over API, so figures never have to be copied across by hand
Boolean’s own building management system when monitoring and control meet on the same site
Your own BI, EMS or AI tooling, straight onto the API

What it costs

The price scales with the number of measurement points, not with the volume of data you generate. That keeps it easy to work out in advance, and a busy site does not get more expensive just because it has more to say.

Boolytics in the field