--- title: The Protocol Wars: The Factory Floor’s Fragmentation Problem description: Factory floors remain fragmented across incompatible OT protocols — Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT — while IT systems run on SNMP, creating multiple isolated dashboards... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-protocol-wars-the-factory-floor-s-fragmentation-problem-nqwqhst33 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Protocol Wars: The Factory Floor’s Fragmentation Problem | daily.dev og:description: Factory floors remain fragmented across incompatible OT protocols — Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT — while IT systems run on SNMP, creating multiple isolated dashboards... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-protocol-wars-the-factory-floor-s-fragmentation-problem-nqwqhst33 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nQwQHST33.png og:image:alt: The Protocol Wars: The Factory Floor’s Fragmentation Problem og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Protocol Wars: The Factory Floor’s Fragmentation Problem **[Embedded.com](https://daily.dev/sources/embedded-com)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Factory floors remain fragmented across incompatible OT protocols — Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT — while IT systems run on SNMP, creating multiple isolated dashboards and dangerous blind spots. Unlike consumer IoT (where Matter achieved plug-and-play interoperability), industrial environments face hard constraints: millisecond latency requirements, decades-old installed base, and safety-critical systems that can't simply be upgraded. The proposed solution isn't ripping out legacy PLCs or picking a new universal protocol, but achieving unified visibility by reading all existing protocols in a single monitoring view. A real-world example from Centroflora Group shows this approach reduced diagnostic time from 6–7 hours to minutes and cut power costs by 4%. Organizations with comprehensive OT visibility also detect ransomware incidents in 5 days versus the industry average of 42 days. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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