Prototyping→
Turn an idea into simulated PLC logic, an operator interface, and working hardware without assembling a full automation stack first.
INTERKEY BRAIN · INDUSTRIAL VIBE CODING
Vibe coding for the physical world.
Describe what an industrial plant, machine, agricultural system, or prototype should do. Brain turns the prompt into PLC logic, HMI, alarms, simulation, and commissioning steps — then runs it on real industrial hardware.
Air-gapped • EU AI Act-aligned • Five-tier safety authorization • Full audit trail
HOW INDUSTRIAL VIBE CODING WORKS
Describe the result. Brain engineers the control system.
Start with a sentence: keep this greenhouse at 24 °C, control irrigation by soil moisture, and alert me before a pump fails. Brain reads the available hardware, writes deterministic PLC logic, generates the HMI and alarms, simulates the sequence, and shows every proposed action before deployment.
The result runs on one industrial cabinet with controller, configurable I/O, power distribution, a 14" status display, NVIDIA Jetson AI, and the complete Brain software stack.
BRAIN AI
Tell Brain what you need. Watch it build.
Describe your machine in plain language — heaters, sensors, PID targets, safety limits. Brain's AI agent streams its tool calls in real time: reads your hardware, writes ST code, builds HMI, configures alarms, runs a simulation. Complete control system in minutes, not months.
2 min
From natural language to running PLC
Describe “build a freeze dryer with 4 heaters, PID control at 60°C, operator dashboard, alarm if >80°C” — Brain streams 7 tool calls in real time: reads your hardware, writes ST code, builds HMI, configures alarms, starts simulation, verifies, returns a summary. Done in 2 minutes, not 2 months.
Zero
Downtime if the cloud goes down
Brain’s AI is optional. The PLC engine, hardware drivers, protocols, and alarm processing all run independently. Network failure, AI service outage, backend crash — the cabinet keeps your machine running. Hardware watchdog on every I/O board (2s timeout). Circuit breaker on AI service. Graceful degradation.
€2,500
Forever license. No maintenance contracts.
One Interkey Brain configuration for €2,500. One-time purchase. Lifetime firmware updates. Optional subscriptions for cloud features — but you never need them. Compare to Siemens TIA Portal’s €3,000+/year maintenance, Rockwell FactoryTalk’s per-seat licenses, and Beckhoff’s per-CPU charges.
ARCHITECTURE
The real stack.
Engineers buy from diagrams. Here's what actually runs inside Brain.
HardwareSoftwareAI LayerExternal
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STM32 Firmware
Deterministic C on Cortex-M4. 2 s hardware watchdog.
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RS-485 Bus
Modbus RTU. Up to 32 I/O modules per segment.
03
Brain OS
Drivers, tag system, historian, protocols, security.
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PLC Engine
IEC 61131-3 scan cycle. Runs independently of AI.
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AI Agent
100+ tools. 5-tier safety. Multi-provider.
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MCP Server
Exposes Brain as Model Context Protocol endpoints.
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External Clients
Claude, GPT, custom agents, SCADA, ERP, cloud.
Data flow: sensor → bus → OS → control → intelligence → protocol → consumer.
THE BRAIN STACK
Not three products.
One vertically integrated platform.
Every layer designed by Interkey. Every layer working together.
From the STM32 firmware on an I/O board to the AI agent in your browser — one system, one supplier.
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Brain Agents
Watchdog / Responder / Optimizer. Five agents, one closed loop.
Autonomous 24/7 process monitoring
Anomaly detection across all tags
Predictive intervention
Engineering, Commissioning, Watchdog, Responder, Optimizer
Brain Vision
Self-learning visual and acoustic monitoring on Jetson.
Up to 20 cameras + 10 microphones
6-hour self-learning, zero training data
NVIDIA Jetson edge inference
Gauge reading, color, anomaly detection
Brain AI
100+ tools, plugin SDK, 5-tier safety, multi-provider, MCP server.
100+ tools across 12 categories
5-tier safety model + circuit breakers
Plugin SDK for custom tools
Multi-provider: Anthropic, OpenAI, local
Brain Studio
HMI Builder, PLC IDE, Process Designer, batch control.
17 drag-and-drop HMI widgets
All 5 IEC 61131-3 languages: ST, LD, FBD, SFC, IL
Process Designer for recipes & sequences
ISA-88 batch control engine
Brain OS
Tag system, PLC engine, protocols, historian, security, fleet management.
Deterministic PLC scan engine
Modbus, MQTT, OPC UA, SparkPlug B
Built-in historian with ring buffer
Fleet management across sites
Brain I/O
STM32F412 boards on RS-485 Modbus. WPRTD, WPIO, WPPWR/WPPWS, WPPSU.
STM32F412 ARM Cortex-M4 firmware
RS-485 Modbus RTU, 2s hardware watchdog
WPRTD (temperature), WPIO (DI/DO), WPPWR/WPPWS (power), WPPSU
Hot-swappable DIN-rail modules
Interkey Sense
PoE industrial cameras, microphones, vibration sensors.
PoE+ industrial cameras
Array microphones for acoustic monitoring
Vibration and accelerometer sensors
IP67 rated for factory floors
From freeze dryers to breweries. One brain runs them all.
END-TO-END PROCESS
From description to production.
HARDWARE — SHIPPING NOW
Real silicon. Real boards. Not a slide.
Custom Brain PLC boards — Lattice FPGA, isolated I/O banks, on-board PSU. Designed in Vienna, manufactured in low-volume runs, shipping to preorder customers now.
BRAIN-PLC-PSU • BRAIN-PLC-SWB • v1.0.240304
Reserve a unit →BRAIN VISION
Your machines learn to watch themselves.
Self-learning cameras and microphones on NVIDIA Jetson. Up to 20 cameras and 10 microphones per cabinet. Water levels, color shifts, gauge readings, vibration anomalies — Brain Vision learns what normal looks like in 6 hours, then guards your process autonomously. Zero programming. Zero training data.
DESIGN PARTNERS
Real machines.
Real customers.
Brain is changing our complete approach to machine programming. We have less cost and so much more to offer to the customer!
WAVE Trockensysteme GmbH
Launch customer
Industrial freeze dryers
Brain runs the control system on their first production freeze dryer — commissioning cut from 12 weeks to 2.
Read the case study →DeepSleep One
Design partner
Consumer sleep technology
Brain runs the climate control and on-device AI inside their sleep pod — ten integrated systems (temperature, air, humidity, lighting, ANC, contact-free health sensing), fully offline.
BRAIN STUDIO
Design operator screens in minutes.
Drag and drop from 17 widgets. Bind to live I/O with one click. Publish directly to the operator tablet — no export, no deploy pipeline, no waiting. PLC programming in all 5 IEC 61131-3 paradigms. Recipe management and ISA-88 batch control built in.
BUSINESS MODEL
One system. One supplier.
No integration.
Brain replaces your SCADA software, HMI panels, engineering workstations, and separate PLC — with one cabinet. One purchase, everything works. No integration projects. No annual license renewals. No finger-pointing between five different vendors when something breaks.
No SCADA License
Brain includes the complete monitoring and control stack. No per-seat SCADA licenses, no annual renewals, no surprise costs at scale.
No Integration
Controller, I/O, HMI, AI, and vision — designed as one system from day one. Boots to operational. Speaks Modbus, MQTT, OPC UA, and SparkPlug B natively.
No Vendor Lock-in
Open protocols, local AI processing, and full data sovereignty. Your data stays in your building. Switch or scale on your terms.
Air-gapped. Sovereign. No data leaves your building.
WHERE IT WORKS
Vibe code what you can touch.
The workflow stays the same from first prototype to full production: describe the outcome, review the generated control system, connect the hardware, and iterate.
Machine Control→
Describe how a packaging line, conveyor, oven, pump station, or custom machine should behave. Brain builds and validates the control logic.
Agriculture→
Automate irrigation, feeding, drying, storage, and field operations with sensors, vision, and deterministic local control.
Indoor Farming→
Control climate, lighting, irrigation, nutrients, and vision systems for greenhouses and vertical farms from one platform.
MEET US IN PERSON / 2026
Three shows. One Brain.
Find Interkey where industrial automation meets controlled-environment agriculture. See Brain in person, talk through your application, and discover what you can build next.
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02–04 OCT 2026
Marx Halle · Vienna, Austria
Cultivation & indoor farming
See how Brain connects climate, irrigation, lighting, nutrients, and plant vision in one local control system.
24–26 NOV 2026
NürnbergMesse · Nuremberg, Germany
Industrial automation & machine control
Meet Brain on the floor where machine builders, automation teams, and industrial software come together.
01–04 DEC 2026
Las Vegas Convention Center · USA
Commercial cultivation at scale
Explore deterministic, air-gapped automation for cultivation facilities that need to grow without losing control.
Dates and venue information may be updated by the event organizers.
SCALE
One cabinet today. An entire factory tomorrow.
Deploy Brain across your production floor — every cabinet inherits proven control logic, adapts to its specific machine, and connects to the unified monitoring platform. Modbus, MQTT, OPC UA, SparkPlug B, and cloud bridge — all built in.
MIGRATION
Already running Siemens, Rockwell, or Beckhoff? Brain Gateway brings AI to your existing PLCs.
EXPLORE BRAIN
Everything the site has to offer.
Pricing, safety, developer platform, competitive comparison, case studies, and the public roadmap — all in one place.
PROTOTYPING
Build the hardware. Skip the code.
Ideal for prototyping and small series — describe the machine, and Brain's AI writes the control system. No PLC programming, no controls engineer.
VIDEOS
See Brain in action.
Full-length films — how Brain works, natural-language control, and the WAVE customer story on a real production freeze dryer.
PRICING
One Brain. One price.
Interkey Brain €2,500. Fully equipped, forever license, and no recurring fees required.
SAFETY
5-tier authorization model.
Read / Inform / Configure / Control / Safety-Critical. Auto-lock, emergency stop, full audit trail.
AGENTS
Five agents. One closed loop.
Engineering, Commissioning, Watchdog, Responder, Optimizer. Five specialized AI agents that share one tag system, one safety model, and one audit trail.
RELIABILITY
Industrial reliability built in.
Hardware watchdogs on every I/O board. Immutable audit trail. Full backup/restore. Degraded-mode operation when AI, network, or backend fails.
GATEWAY
AI for legacy machines.
Profinet, EtherNet/IP, BACnet, Modbus, M-Bus, KNX. Bring Brain AI to existing Siemens, Rockwell, and Beckhoff PLCs. Coming 2027.
DEVELOPERS
brain_sdk and MCP server.
Drop a Python plugin into a folder. The AI agent uses it as a tool. Nobody else has this.
LOCAL AI
Air-gapped intelligence.
Full Brain without the cloud. BYOK, zero telemetry, data stays on the cabinet.
COMPARE
Brain vs. the incumbents.
Honest feature matrix against Siemens TIA + Copilot, Rockwell FactoryTalk, Beckhoff, CODESYS.
CASE STUDY
WAVE Trockensysteme.
Freeze dryer deployment. Brain replaced months of PLC programming, hand-drawn wiring diagrams, and three vendors with one cabinet.
Describe what you want to automate.
Brain does the rest.
Prototyping, machine control, agriculture, and indoor farming — from natural language to running hardware.