Containerized industrial IOT power solution:
Openbyte designed and deployed a fully containerised industrial power monitoring system for a commercial facility client, integrating power meters via Modbus over RS485 into a real-time data pipeline built on IOT devices, time series database, and visualisation. The solution captures three-phase voltage, current, active and reactive power, and cumulative energy across multiple meters — polling every 60 seconds — and surfaces this data through custom dashboards that include Eskom time-of-use tariff analysis for peak, standard, and off-peak cost breakdowns. Deployed using Docker Containers and Zabbix health monitoring, the system gives the client continuous visibility into their energy consumption, power quality, and operational costs, with a scalable architecture ready to replicate across additional sites.
Sovereign document management migration: financial services
Openbyte designed and deployed a fully self-hosted document management solution for a financial services client, migrating them off cloud-based SharePoint onto an on-premises Proxmox virtualisation environment running Nextcloud. The solution preserves the collaborative workflows the client relied on, including team and group folder structures and real-time document co-editing, through an integrated OnlyOffice server that provides a familiar interface for users transitioning from a Microsoft ecosystem. Two-factor authentication was enforced across all user accounts, meeting the heightened security and data sovereignty requirements typical of financial services environments. The result is a private, internally controlled platform that gives the client full ownership of their data and the flexibility to scale storage and users as the business grows, with cloud licensing costs replaced by a once-off infrastructure investment.