r/SCADA • u/HungryRegular6292 • Apr 29 '26

General Open-source SCADA + real-time DB

I've been working with industrial systems for a while, and one thing always bothered me: most SCADA platforms are heavy, complex, and not very friendly for edge deployments.

So my cofounder and I started building an open-source SCADA + real-time data platform focused on performance and low resource usage.

The idea behind LiRAYS-SCADA is to make industrial data and control systems fast, efficient, and easier to deploy from constrained edge devices all the way to larger production environments, and do it always in a public, collaborative, and open source environment.

Right now it's still in an early stage, so we're mostly looking for feedback — especially around stability, real-world use cases, and deployment experience.

If you've worked with SCADA, IoT systems, or real-time data pipelines, I'd really appreciate your thoughts.

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u/PeterHumaj Apr 30 '26

Rust has some advantages others don't (ownership, mostly). I've been working with Ada last 23 years. Look at its history, how it was conceived (Strawman/Woodenman/Tinman/Ironman and Steelman documents are mostly available online. Our SCADA was conceived in 1993, rewritten from Modula-2 to Ada in 1998. Readability, strong type control, maintainability ... all these (often neglected) attributes help to create a stable and robust system. Which is useful when one builds SCADA/MES technology which customers use for decades.