Litmus

Litmus is an industrial data platform provider founded in 2013 in Santa Clara, California, United States, formerly known as Litmus Automation. The company was created to help manufacturers connect legacy machines and modern IoT sensors, then turn that shop-floor data into a standardized foundation usable for analytics and AI, addressing the data fragmentation that slows Industry 4.0 rollouts.

The platform is centered on Litmus Edge, which runs at the plant edge to collect data from PLCs, sensors and historians, then normalizes it through Litmus Edge Manager, Litmus Unify for unified namespace modeling, and Litmus Data Catalog for governance. Manufacturing customers such as Philips, Jaguar Land Rover and Parker use it to feed dashboards, MES/ERP systems and AI applications with clean, contextualized production data.

1. Edge connectivity: Connects PLCs, sensors and legacy machines using more than 250 industrial protocol drivers.

2. Edge management: Centrally deploys and monitors Litmus Edge instances across distributed plants.

3. Unify: Builds a unified namespace that standardizes tag names and data models across sites.

4. Data catalog: Provides searchable metadata governance for industrial data assets.

5. MCP server: Exposes industrial data to AI agents through a standard interface.

6. Cloud integration: Streams processed data to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Databricks for analytics.