u/latentrail

Not sure if it's just me, but the "bloat" in industrial tech is getting out of hand. Why does every piece of middleware feel like it was designed in 1998 and requires a dedicated server just to read a few tags?

I’ve spent the last few months building a tool (I call it Limen Edge). It’s basically a lightweight bridge (v1.1.1) that pulls PLC data and normalizes it into clean JSON/REST/gRPC.

The footprint is only 40.7MB, so it actually runs on tiny edge hardware without choking. My goal is to make the hardware invisible so I can use modern stacks without the any massive installation headache.

Curious if you guys are also looking for more modular, lightweight tools or are we just stuck with the legacy giants forever?

I’ve spent the last few months building a tool called Limen Edge. As a software engineer (I'm 21), I’ve always struggled with how "closed" industrial middleware feels. I just wanted a way to treat the factory floor like a modern web stack without the proprietary overhead.

So I built an edge agent in Go that pulls from Modbus/OPC UA and gives you a clean REST and gRPC API out of the box. No bloat, just a stabilized bridge between the shop floor and the web. I just hit v1.1.0 and I'm trying to see if this actually works in the wild.

I’m looking for a few integrators or engineers who have real factory use cases and want to try a developer-first approach. I'm happy to give you full access to the private Docker image for free. I honestly just want to know where it breaks in your environment and if the API schema actually makes sense for your workflow.

I’ve put a lot of work into the docs and I’m basically available all the time to answer questions or help you get it running.

Let me know if anyone interested in testing a different way of doing things and if anyone has thoughts, I'd love to discuss further