Withum helped a leading provider of energy management and power quality solutions build an Ignition integration in weeks rather than months, giving integrators a simpler, API-based alternative to manually connecting and configuring devices and the client a product it can offer by subscription.
A leading provider of energy management and power quality solutions engaged Withum to give its customers and system integrators a simpler, more scalable way to connect its monitoring devices to Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform. Modbus-based integrations required manual register mapping, network changes and coordination among several parties at every site, and offered limited access to historical and event data. A native integration had long been on the client’s roadmap, but dedicating a development team to it had been considered too costly.
Withum’s Digital Workplace Solutions team confirmed requirements and minimum viable product (MVP) boundaries with the client’s product and engineering teams, then delivered the MVP in about 12 weeks, led by a single engineer using a structured, AI-assisted development process. Early customer deployments confirmed demand and gave leadership the evidence to invest in a commercial release.
The client is a leading provider of energy management and power quality solutions. It manufactures power monitoring devices and an energy management and power monitoring platform that collects and manages their data across industrial, utility and commercial facilities. Many of the client’s customers and integrators run Ignition, so the connection between the client’s devices, its platform and Ignition determines how easily customers can set up devices and use their advanced measurement capabilities and put its advanced measurement capabilities to work.
The client’s devices already exposed rich live, historical and event data through a modern REST API, but Ignition could not access it directly, so every deployment became a custom project. The client needed a repeatable product it could offer customers, not another one-off integration. What changed was not the need but the economics: spec-driven, AI-assisted development made it realistic to build the integration without staffing a dedicated team.
Withum paired a single lead engineer with the client’s product and engineering stakeholders in a phased, collaborative model, using spec-driven, AI-assisted engineering approach with clear documentation and expert review at every step.
The engagement turned a long-deferred roadmap item into customer-deployed software in about 12 weeks, giving the client a native, API-based path into Ignition that it is now positioned to offer as a subscription service.
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