Untethered machines, deterministic control
Take PLCs, machinery, and robotics off fixed cabling - one converged wireless fabric carries your industrial control traffic with guaranteed latency and reliability, per device and per application.
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Untethered operations
Industrial control has always run on cable - PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, and Modbus over fixed wiring that pins every machine in place. But production now moves: AGVs and robotic cells re-lay the floor, retrofits reach where conduit can’t, and robots and vision systems are joining PLCs on the network. Best-effort wireless can’t carry control traffic that won’t tolerate a dropped packet, and re-cabling every change is slow and expensive.
Celona Orion takes PLCs, machinery, and robotics off fixed cabling - one converged wireless fabric that carries industrial control traffic with guaranteed latency and reliability, per device and per application, with native Layer 2 where the protocol requires it.
The economics and the engineering finally line up: cellular delivers the determinism industrial control needs, at a fraction of the cost of trenching fiber.
“A dedicated cellular-enabled Industry 4.0 solution could potentially deliver a return on investment (ROI) of 10x to 20x over five years, while contributing to operational cost savings of about 8.5%.”
- ABI RESEARCH, HOW TO IMPROVE ROI FOR INDUSTRY 4.0 USE CASES
“They wanted to add redundancy to the Layer 2 distribution layer of their OT network - and the estimates for running fiber were pushing upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. So they came to us asking: can we leverage the private cellular network to establish that connectivity?”
- WALTER BRUMBALO, WIRELESS SERVICES MANAGER, INS
Wireless machine control
Carry PLC and machine control traffic - PROFINET RT, EtherNet/IP, Modbus - over the air with the reliability the process demands, including native Layer 2 connectivity where the protocol requires it.
Private 5G is the fastest-growing enterprise network - projected to grow ~35%/yr to $17.55B by 2030, led by manufacturing. (MarketsandMarkets)
Mobile and reconfigurable production
AGVs, AMRs, robotic cells, and skid-mounted equipment move - and lines get re-laid - without cabling rework or downtime. PLCs last 40+ years; the network has to flex around them.
Automated changeover cells have cut line changeover from 45 to 8 minutes while lifting yield 25%. (Plant Engineering)
Resilient OT networks
Close Ethernet distribution rings over the air so a cut cable doesn’t stop production, and bring new sensors and devices into expansions without trenching fiber.
Unplanned downtime now costs manufacturers $125K-$260K per hour on average. (ReliaMag - Aberdeen/ABB)
Machines and physical AI on one fabric
Robots, vision systems, and sensor fleets are joining PLCs on the floor. Every one of them - and the people working alongside - rides the same converged fabric, with performance guaranteed per device and per app.
Over 4.6M industrial robots are now in operation worldwide, with ~540K installed in 2024 alone. (IFR World Robotics 2025)
Untethering the machine requires a different network
Celona Orion is the industry’s first agentic converged wireless platform - bringing private 5G, Wi-Fi, and (as reach extends) public mobile and satellite together as one deterministic fabric, run as a single control plane, with native Layer 2 for the protocols that need it. Converged. Agentic. Trusted.
Production has outgrown the cable plant
Industrial protocols weren’t written for best-effort wireless
Downtime is expensive, and wireless has to earn OT’s trust
Real sites. Real results.
Deterministic under load
Round-trip latency under 20 ms unloaded and 20-25 ms with PLC traffic in a MicroSlice on a loaded network; 99.9% of latency spikes under 100 ms. (Celona test data, Untethering PLCs whitepaper)
Ring redundancy without fiber
An OT distribution ring closed over the fabric fails over in milliseconds - replacing a fiber run quoted at roughly $100K. (INS deployment)
Superior coverage
A wine-bottling plant’s all-metal container yard fully covered by 2 APs at −85 dBm worst case (INS); a steel plant replaced 6 Wi-Fi APs with 1 outdoor AP - 70× less unplanned downtime, ROI in under 3 months.
Machine-scale economics
10-20× five-year ROI and ~8.5% operational cost savings for cellular-enabled Industry 4.0 deployments (ABI Research); the steel plant’s 3-year network cost savings: 39% indoor, 31% outdoor.
Deployment imagery
- A certified industrial gateway (e.g., Digi IX30) mounted at a PLC cabinet - the “last meter” of the untethered machine.
- AGV/AMR in motion on a production floor under AP coverage.
- The INS wine-bottling all-metal container yard (2-AP coverage).
- Architecture graphic: PLC → certified gateway → converged fabric → OT network, showing the native L2 tunnel path.
Devices for the untethered machine
Industrial gateways, routers, and devices certified on Celona through interoperability testing - bridging PLCs, machinery, and legacy equipment onto the converged fabric.
Certified industrial gateways & routers
Digi (IX30/IX40) and others bridge PLCs and legacy OT equipment onto the fabric over native Layer 2, with Supernetting keeping each device individually visible.
Consumer smartphones & tablets
eSIM-connected on the private network (as in the Del Conca deployment).
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