How 4neXt transformed Industrial Dataloggers into a Digital Ecosystem with Karadet

Company Profile

4neXt designs and manufactures products for automation, data collection, and data management in M2M and IoT applications.

4neXt products are successfully deployed worldwide across every industry where there is a need to reliably collect and analyze data: metering (Energy, Water, Gas), water treatment, renewables, industrial and process control, heat site measurements, agri-food monitoring, automotive and fleet management.

4neXt's Challenge​

The success of its industrial dataloggers, such as EasyLog XL and EasySENSE, led 4neXt to confront a strategic question: how to transform quality hardware into a complete value proposition for its customers?

Selling devices was no longer enough and market demand was clear: the ability to view collected data in real time, receive automatic alerts, generate recurring reports and configure devices remotely. All accessible from any device, at any time.

4neXt therefore faced a twofold challenge. Building a digital ecosystem around its products while maintaining focus on its core business: designing and manufacturing world-class industrial hardware.

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We wanted our customers to be able to focus on their sites, not on the underlying technology. The goal was clear: to offer a platform that made reading data, generating reports and receiving alerts immediately intuitive.

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Gino Cecchettin

Managing Director - 4neXt

The Solution: Karadet​

Karadet is 4neXt's answer to this vision: an integrated digital platform, consisting of a web app and a mobile app, designed to bring data collected by industrial dataloggers directly into the hands of installers and end users.

The choice to build on Connhex proved strategic. Connhex handles the entire data collection and transmission infrastructure from device to cloud, allowing the 4neXt team to focus exclusively on what makes Karadet unique: the user experience, vertical features and the added value it therefore delivers to customers.

Automatic Device-to-Cloud Integration​

At the heart of Karadet is its vertical integration with 4neXt devices. Variables configured on the device are automatically recognized and made available in the cloud: no manual setup, no risk of misalignment. Users can also remotely configure acquisition parameters, including Modbus variables to record, directly from the cloud platform, without any on-site intervention.

Web App: Full Control from the Browser​

Karadet web app: collected data detail page.

The Karadet web interface provides an immediate overview of monitored sites. Users can:

• view collected data from devices in real time, with customizable charts and dashboards
• export data in the most common formats for external analysis
• generate automatic recurring reports, particularly useful for monitoring applications
• configure automatic alerts based on thresholds and conditions defined on incoming data
• share sites with other users, enabling team collaboration and remote supervision by installers

Mobile App: Your sites, Always at Hand​

Karadet mobile app: available for iOS and Android.

The Karadet mobile app is designed for monitoring and action on the go. With a single account, users access both the web and mobile versions seamlessly, finding the same depth of information in an interface optimized for smartphones. Installers have access to dedicated features for site management, from real-time consumption checks to receiving alert notifications.

Reports and Alerts: From Information to Action​

Karadet transforms raw data collected by dataloggers into actionable insights.

Karadet generates automatic reports on collected data, with the option to include AI-powered analysis.

Automatic reports, with configurable scheduling, leverage AI to address the needs of vertical applications such as energy monitoring, and are delivered directly via email to users. Alerts, automatically generated based on collected data, ensure that no critical event goes unnoticed.

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Connhex enabled a level of integration with our products that would have otherwise been unthinkable. Having a high-performance, tested, and validated data collection infrastructure allowed us to focus entirely on what makes Karadet unique in the market.

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Gino Cecchettin

Managing Director - 4neXt

Key Results​

Karadet marked 4neXt's transition from device manufacturer to integrated digital solution provider, with a subscription model that creates ongoing value for its customers. The results speak for themselves:

• 4neXt's cloud infrastructure now processes tens of millions of variables per month, with a steadily accelerating growth curve
• All 4neXt products (configurable dataloggers, programmable RTUs, and communication gateways) are fully supported and integrated with Karadet
• Remote device configuration has significantly reduced the need for on-site interventions by installers
• End customers have access to automatic reports and real-time alerts that empower them to independently manage their own sites

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Compiuta has proven to be a fundamental partner for 4neXt: as device manufacturers, we can continue to focus on our core business and offer our customers a high-performance cloud platform, compliant with the latest security standards, without having to directly manage the complexity of the underlying infrastructure.

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Gino Cecchettin

Managing Director - 4neXt

The Future of Karadet​

Karadet is a platform in continuous evolution. Thanks to its tight integration with Connhex Edge for managing Edge-to-Cloud communication in Owa5x applications, and with active support already in place for the new dataloggers with integrated I/O EL-D16, EL-A4 and EL-M2, 4neXt continues to expand the ecosystem. A LoRa gateway and sensors are also currently under development, which will complete the sensor-to-cloud chain with native platform integration.

Building Karadet on Connhex also means that every new Connhex infrastructure feature will automatically become available to 4neXt customers, keeping the platform continuously up to date in terms of security and performance. The vision is clear: an increasingly rich digital ecosystem, built around 4neXt hardware, capable of delivering ever-greater added-value solutions to the market.