No data hostage situation
Your operational history lives in your environment, under access and retention policies you control.
Spark platform
Customer-owned platform. Customer-controlled data.
Spark is the focused operating foundation for large sensor fleets. It brings devices, data, health, and workflows together while keeping the customer—not Bricksoft—in control of the environment.
Devices6,984Reporting99.8%Cloud load<20%
Data remains in your environmentLast update: just now
Ownership changes the relationship
Your sensors can change. Your data should remain yours.
Bricksoft retains the intellectual property in Spark. The customer owns and controls the deployed infrastructure, its accounts, and its operational data.
No forced hardware lane
Integrate the suitable devices you already have and change device strategies without discarding the platform.
No disappearing handoff
Experienced professionals help manage and maintain the platform during the first year, with extended support available.
A real deployment profile
High-frequency data. Modest infrastructure.
Nearly 7,000 sensors reporting every minute create roughly 10.1 million readings per day. That is the raw reading volume of about 105,000 conventional 15-minute sensors.
One consolidated production environment is estimated below $600/month on DigitalOcean and has been observed below 20% cloud utilization—with substantial measured headroom remaining.
- Sensors
- ~7,000
- Read interval
- 1 min
- Readings / day
- ~10.1M
- Reference cloud
- <$600/mo
Illustrative deployment profile based on operating experience. The hosting estimate is for one consolidated production environment—not the customer's current total cloud spend. Equivalent AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud designs may cost materially more depending on managed services, egress, region, redundancy, and support. Validate each target architecture.
What Spark handles
Built for the operational middle.
Spark focuses on the work between receiving a packet and trusting a decision.
- Device identity, provisioning, organization, and fleet health
- Ingestion, normalization, validation, and durable storage
- Topology, deployment context, search, and operational views
- Alerts, exceptions, maintenance workflows, and audit context
- APIs and exports for the customer systems that use the data
- Observability, backups, updates, and infrastructure management
A reference architecture—not a cloud promise
Infrastructure cost follows architecture.
The below-$600 reference estimate uses DigitalOcean for one consolidated production environment. It is evidence that high-volume ingestion need not imply an extravagant platform bill.
Devices6,984Reporting99.8%Cloud load<20%
Data remains in your environmentLast update: just now
Cloud comparisons need equivalent scope.
AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud may be the right answer for policy, procurement, regional, or service reasons. Equivalent designs may also cost materially more once managed databases, egress, redundancy, support, and service tiers are included.
We size and quote the actual target architecture. We do not turn a DigitalOcean example into a universal savings guarantee.
Start here
Bring us the problem—not a preselected product.
We will ask questions, show our work, and tell you honestly whether Bricksoft should be involved.