🧠Our Principles

Strategic foundations behind FLECS – why our platform is built the way it is.

📡 API First – Seamless Integration with Your Infrastructure

FLECS is built with an API-First mindset. This means that every component of our platform, from device onboarding to app deployment, is accessible and controllable via standard APIs.

This approach ensures:

• ✅ Easy integration into existing Fleet Management Systems Deploy, monitor, and update entire device fleets centrally, no matter your existing IT infrastructure.

• ✅ Plug-and-play connections to CRM and ERP systems Synchronize customer data, licensing, and business logic with your internal tools through RESTful APIs and standard protocols like MQTT or OPC UA.

• ✅ Seamless integration into your industrial infrastructure FLECS supports real-time data exchange with SCADA, PLCs, and edge systems using standard connectors and proven protocols.

Why this matters A shared software layer only scales if it can be embedded into existing IT and OT infrastructures as-is, without replacing them.

💬 “FLECS works with your existing infrastructure. We don’t replace, we enhance.”

🧩 Best-of-Breed – Modular by Nature

FLECS follows a Best-of-Breed strategy, not just in the apps we offer, but in how the platform itself is designed.

• 🧱 Modular architecture FLECS Core, WebApp, Marketplace, and Device Services are fully decoupled and extensible. Use what you need, when you need it.

• FLECS deliberately builds on Linux-based industrial systems. This allows companies to combine best-of-breed hardware, operating systems, and applications, without proprietary runtime constraints or vendor-specific execution environments.

• 🔌 Integrates perfectly into existing automation landscapes Instead of replacing your tools, FLECS complements them. It acts as a unifying layer, giving you more flexibility without disrupting proven setups.

• 🚀 Freedom of choice for your stack Choose the best tools for each task – whether it's your own apps, partner solutions, or third-party components from the FLECS Marketplace.

💬 “No one-size-fits-all. FLECS adapts fully to your needs from functionality to branding.”

🔓 Open Source at the Core

In a world of closed systems, we choose openness. FLECS is built on open-source principles, enabling collaboration, transparency, and maximum flexibility.

• 👥 Foster collaboration across vendors and ecosystems

• 🔄 Enable fast innovation cycles and integration

• 💡 Contribute and extend, benefit from a growing community

Open source at the core ensures that the shared software layer itself never becomes a vendor lock-in.

🗝 Empowering Independence

FLECS is built to put you in control, not just of your software, but of your entire digital business model.

Independence also means freedom of deployment. FLECS is cloud-native, but can be operated fully on-premises, in hybrid environments, or in enterprise-controlled infrastructures.

• ✅ Own your customer relationships and data

• ✅ Avoid vendor lock-in

• ✅ Launch your own App Store in just 6 weeks

💬 “Transform your industrial expertise into digital revenue without losing control.”