Remote device management for every machine in the field
FlowFuse runs Node-RED next to your PLCs and governs it from one place with remote device management, editing, snapshots, and fleet-wide controls.
"It's not just about connecting machines; it's about creating the foundation that makes everything else possible."
Felix Reck · IT Application Manager, WalterResults
Customer results with remote device management
Walter Tools scaled from a single Node-RED instance to over 130 across four continents and unified five separate machine-connectivity systems — with the same seven-person IT team.
Aperia Technologies replaced a USB-stick walk across five lines with one device-group deployment, and freed 8–12 hours a day of idle end-of-line test equipment.
Paloma Irrigation and Drainage District's team spent half of every shift driving between remote pumping stations. Remote access and automated alerts ended the routine visits across 30,000 acres.
Energinet monitors substation health at hundreds of critical nodes across Denmark's transmission grid — 24/7, with a small operations team.
Visibility
See and manage every remote device from one place
Every device, one view
Instance state and last seen. CPU and memory over time. Agent and Node-RED versions. Device groups by site or line.
What changed, and who changed it
Audit log across the team. Snapshot comparison. Version history. Attribution on every deployment.
When something goes wrong
Node-RED logs without SSH. Health checks and auto-restart. Diagnostic emails with the logs attached. Structured JSON logs for Loki or Elastic.
Reach a machine you can't touch
Open the editor from your browser. Developer Mode tunnel for live debugging. Restart a device remotely. Outbound-only — no inbound ports.
Connectivity
Fix one machine. Deploy to all of them.
This is where a monitoring tool stops and remote device management keeps going.
Learn how to install the FlowFuse Device AgentFix One
Open the Node-RED editor on the machine itself, from your browser, and change the flow on live hardware.
Snapshot It
Capture the working state as a versioned snapshot you can compare, promote and roll back.
Roll It Out
Push that snapshot to the device group through a pipeline — every filler on every line, or every site in the region.
Intelligence at the Edge
Once the loop is closed, intelligence is a node, not a project
Run the model where the data is
Drop a trained ONNX model into a flow and run inference on the device. No round trip, no inference bill, no data leaving the plant.
Ask the factory a question
FlowFuse Expert Insights Mode connects to the MCP servers in your instances, so you can query live state in plain language instead of building a report for it.
Allow an agent to act
Expose your flows to our MCP integration so Copilot, Claude or your own AI agent can read live operational state and act on it, inside the role-based access control you already run. Read-only stays read-only. Every action is logged.
Make your remote devices intelligent
Your first operational application could be running this week. Request a demo to see how, or explore pricing to find the right fit.