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Architecture

Architecture overview

The roles and communication boundaries of the Nodectra platform.

Nodectra separates engineering, cloud coordination and site-local execution.

Nodectra Cloud
  ├─ organizations, users, projects and revisions
  ├─ Development Studio web application
  ├─ agent and MCP proposal review
  └─ deployment control plane
                │ signed versioned bundle

Nodectra Site Runtime on a Site Server
  ├─ protocols and physical Points
  ├─ programs, schedules and alarms
  ├─ historian and operational audit
  └─ Web Station / Client View
                │ site LAN

Edge Controllers, Field Controllers and field devices

Design principles

  • Site autonomy: active control continues locally without a cloud round trip.
  • One project model: Studio, bundle validation and Runtime use a shared project contract.
  • Typed bindings: signals connect through declared ports, engineering types and units.
  • Explicit deployment: editing a cloud project does not silently change a running building.
  • Human approval: agents and MCP create reviewable proposals; they do not apply or deploy changes.
  • Separated interfaces: engineering tools, Runtime management and operator applications have different capabilities.

Product family

ProductRole
Nodectra CloudSaaS control plane and browser-hosted Studio
Development StudioComplete engineering workspace in web or Connected Desktop
Site RuntimeSite-local execution service for a signed project bundle
Site ServerWindows or Linux host running Site Runtime
Edge ControllerMain autonomous building controller with field interfaces
Field ControllerSmaller autonomous room, zone or plant controller
Web Station / Client ViewSite-local operator interfaces

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