Barbara

Barbara is a Spanish industrial technology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bilbao. It builds an edge platform that lets industrial organizations deploy, orchestrate and monitor applications and AI models across large numbers of distributed edge devices without on-site IT teams.

The platform combines Docker-based container orchestration, industrial protocol connectors, device lifecycle management and an MLOps module for packaging trained models onto edge hardware, plus a marketplace of pre-certified edge applications. Customers span smart grids, water utilities and manufacturing operators that need zero-touch provisioning and centralized management across geographically dispersed sites.

1. Container orchestration: deploys and manages Docker-based edge applications at scale.

2. Industrial connectors: extract data from legacy and modern factory equipment.

3. Device lifecycle management: provision, configure, update and maintain edge fleets remotely.

4. MLOps module: optimizes and packages trained AI models for edge hardware.

5. Application marketplace: pre-certified edge apps ready for deployment.

6. Zero-touch provisioning: automated device setup reduces on-site configuration work.