Certainty you can prove.

Pharmaceutical production runs on equipment bought over decades. Machines with no network connection work beside modern controllers, and each comes with its own software, protocol and record. The data that matters most, such as cleanroom pressure, equipment status and instrument performance, ends up scattered across building and environmental monitoring systems, equipment software, lab systems and paper logs that do not talk to each other.

Every one of those records has to stand up to regulators. So people fill the gaps by hand: they walk the floor to read gauges, transcribe values into batch records, and reconcile spreadsheets before an inspection. That work is slow and costly, and every manual step is a chance for error. Problems surface late, as a deviation, an out-of-spec result or an inspector's question, when catching the drift earlier would have prevented them. And because each site's data stays locked in its own systems, the same issue can repeat across lines and sites without anyone seeing the pattern.

Most production floors run on a mix of equipment from different decades. A new filling line sits next to a twenty-year-old autoclave, and the controllers, sensors and building systems around them each speak their own protocol. Kardo connects all of it. Compact bridges sit beside legacy and proprietary machines, wired in through galvanically isolated serial, CAN and I²C interfaces. They form a self-healing wireless mesh back to the gateway, so a node that drops offline never cuts the floor off. The gateway speaks Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Bluetooth LE, CAN, RS-485, RS-232 and M-Bus, and it connects to modern controllers and upstream systems over MQTT. Every signal becomes one live, normalised record of each room, machine and batch, which is stored on site and works alongside your validated systems. Security is anchored in hardware: a secure element holds the keys, every message is encrypted from node to node, and firmware is verified before it installs.

Above the gateway, Kardo turns raw signals into something people can act on. Data flows from every protocol through a staged pipeline that checks, batches and acknowledges each reading before storing it, and it keeps each room, machine and batch as a distinct record from end to end. Each stage runs in isolation, so a fault in one never corrupts the rest. Live dashboards show the state of the floor as it happens and raise alarms when conditions drift. Role-based access means operators, quality teams and managers each see exactly what they need, and nothing they should not. Standard APIs let your existing systems and trusted partners use the same data, so the record you rely on for daily decisions is the one you show an inspector.

In a Roman town, the first line the city planner laid was the cardo. Every street, wall and plot was then measured against it. Kardo does the same for the production floor. It connects the rooms, machines and records of regulated manufacturing into one live, validated record that quality teams can trust and inspectors can check. We start where the stakes are highest, in pharmaceutical compounding, where we are working with one of the largest compounding pharmacies in the world to improve their traceability, productivity and compliance. And we build for any industry that has to prove how its products were made. Behind Kardo is a hardware and software team that has spent three decades building systems that do not fail, from the first release of Erlang/OTP at Ericsson to the platforms that run today's telecoms, finance, messaging infrastructure and IoT automation. We bring that discipline to the factory floor, because certainty should be something you can prove.