Cloud-hosted or on your own servers — real-time monitoring, PLC programming, and UL 508A panels for North Texas plants and gas assets, from one Texas team.
Merobix delivers SCADA monitoring for Dallas-Fort Worth operators two ways: a cloud-hosted platform that is typically live in 3-5 days, or the same software licensed onto your own servers with full data residency. Either way you get real-time dashboards, a process historian, and SMS and email alarm notifications that reach your operators in under 30 seconds.
The metroplex is a harder monitoring problem than most regions because it runs so many different things at once. The manufacturing corridor from Fort Worth through Arlington to Garland runs production lines on EtherNet/IP and PROFINET. Legacy Barnett Shale gas — wells, compressor stations, and tank batteries scattered across Tarrant, Johnson, Wise, Denton, and Parker counties — sits unmanned on aging RTUs. Midstream companies headquartered in Dallas and Fort Worth need one screen for field assets spread across Texas. Food and beverage plants and logistics facilities run utilities, refrigeration, and building systems on BACnet. And North Texas is one of the fastest-growing data center markets in the country, with power and environmental monitoring needs of its own. Merobix ships 20 protocol drivers across 7 protocol families — Modbus, EtherNet/IP, OPC UA, Siemens S7, DNP3, MQTT/Sparkplug B, BACnet, and more — so one platform reads all of it without per-protocol licensing fees.
Plans are flat and all-inclusive — no per-tag, per-client, or per-protocol charges — and pricing is custom-quoted on your operation. See exactly what each tier includes on the Starter / Professional / Enterprise feature matrix, or read why operators pick Merobix over legacy SCADA suites.
Hosted SCADA monitoring means Merobix runs the servers, the database, and the historian in the cloud, and your North Texas sites push data to it through a small gateway — you log into a dashboard instead of maintaining a SCADA computer in a back office. For most operators the whole deployment takes 3-5 days from kickoff to live tags, because there is no server to procure, no OS to harden, and no software to install on your side.
The security model behind the hosted platform — encryption, MFA, RBAC, audit logging — is documented in detail on our security page. And if you want to put a number on what an unmonitored failure costs you today, run the ROI calculator against your current callout and downtime figures.
Choose cloud if you want speed and zero infrastructure; choose on-premise if your IT, compliance, or network policy requires the data to stay inside your fence line. Merobix is one of the few platforms that sells both models with the identical feature set, so the decision is about your constraints — not about giving up capabilities.
That distinction plays out clearly in North Texas. A gas operator with 30 unmanned Barnett Shale sites usually wants hosted SCADA and wants it this week. A manufacturer or data center operator often has an OT network policy that prohibits process data leaving the site — so we license the platform onto their VMs, including fully air-gapped installations that never touch the internet. The trade-offs in one table:
| Consideration | Merobix Cloud-Hosted | Merobix On-Premise |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment time | Live in 3-5 days | On your infrastructure schedule |
| Servers & infrastructure | None — we host and maintain it | Your servers, VMs, or Docker hosts |
| Data residency | Encrypted cloud tenancy | Full residency — data never leaves your network |
| Air-gapped networks | Not applicable | Fully supported, offline activation available |
| Updates & backups | Automatic, handled by Merobix | On your change-management calendar |
| Uptime | 99.9% uptime SLA | Your infrastructure; Enterprise adds hot standby redundancy |
| Typical DFW fit | Barnett Shale gas, midstream field assets, multi-site operators | Manufacturers, food & beverage plants, data centers, strict IT policy |
| Feature set | Identical — dashboards, historian, alarms, reports, mobile apps on both | |
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For a deeper treatment of this decision — total cost, IT burden, cybersecurity posture — read our full guide: Cloud SCADA vs. On-Premise SCADA.
Yes — SCADA programming in Dallas and Fort Worth is a core Merobix service, and most of it happens remotely, so you are not paying windshield time for work that happens at a keyboard. SCADA programming is everything between "the PLC has the data" and "the operator trusts the screen": building the tag database, drawing dashboards and HMI screens your operators actually read, configuring alarm thresholds and escalation chains with your operations team, setting up the historian and scheduled reports, and wiring in whatever protocols your equipment speaks.
A lot of DFW programming work is really migration work — a plant or gas operator outgrowing a homegrown HMI, an unsupported legacy package, or a spreadsheet-and-drive-by routine. We map the old tag database, rebuild screens and alarms on the Merobix platform, and cut over without losing history. Typical programming scopes across the metroplex:
For background on how we approach the build, read the SCADA programming guide; if you are replacing an existing system, start with the SCADA migration guide.
Merobix programs Siemens and Allen-Bradley PLCs and fabricates UL 508A listed control panels — including C1D2 rated enclosures for hazardous locations — then ships them to your Dallas-Fort Worth site and commissions them. Panels are FAT-tested in our Texas shop before they leave, so field startup is verification, not debugging.
This is the part most SCADA vendors do not do. If your monitoring project also needs a new PLC program in Studio 5000 or TIA Portal, a panel to house it, and a gateway wired in — that is one scope, one team, and one commissioning trip instead of three contractors pointing at each other. Typical package for a North Texas operator:
Full scope and specs are on our services page; for background reading, see the control panel fabrication guide and our overview of Allen-Bradley and Siemens PLC programming in Texas.
Merobix is headquartered in Midland in the Permian Basin, and Dallas-Fort Worth is inside the regular rotation — our engineers work Texas hours and drive Texas highways. The working model is remote-first: design, tag mapping, alarm configuration, dashboard builds, and PLC program changes happen remotely, and site visits are reserved for the things that genuinely need boots on the floor — gateway installs, panel commissioning, and operator walk-throughs. After go-live, support is remote and same-day for most issues.
Before you call, it helps to have four things handy: a rough I/O or tag list per site, the makes and models of your PLCs/RTUs/flow computers, what connectivity each site has (cellular, radio, fiber, none), and any compliance requirements your reporting must satisfy. With those, we can usually turn a scoped quote around quickly — and a guided demo can be on your calendar this week.
Yes. SCADA programming, integration, and monitoring across Dallas-Fort Worth are core services for Merobix. We are a Texas company — design, tag mapping, alarm configuration, dashboard builds, and PLC program changes happen remotely, and our engineers travel to DFW sites for gateway installs, panel commissioning, and startups. After go-live, most changes never require a site visit.
Both options are available. The hosted platform runs in the cloud with a 99.9% uptime SLA and is typically live in 3-5 days. If your IT or compliance policy requires full data residency, we license the same platform for your own servers or VMs, including air-gapped networks that never touch the internet. The feature set is identical either way.
Yes. Mature Barnett Shale assets are a natural fit: gas wells, compressor stations, and tank batteries spread across Tarrant, Johnson, Wise, Denton, and Parker counties, most of them unmanned. A small gateway reads the RTUs and flow computers already in the field — 20 protocol drivers across 7 protocol families cover most legacy equipment — and operators get SMS and email alarms in under 30 seconds instead of finding problems on the next drive-by.
Both. The platform monitors anything that speaks an industrial protocol — production lines over EtherNet/IP or PROFINET, facility and building systems over BACnet, power and environmental monitoring for data centers, and food and beverage utilities. Oil and gas is our heritage, but DFW work increasingly means manufacturing, logistics facilities, and data-center infrastructure on the same platform.
Pricing is custom-quoted on your sites, tag counts, and team size — there is no per-tag, per-client, or per-protocol fee, so the number you are quoted is the number you pay. Starter, Professional, and Enterprise plans are flat and all-inclusive. Call (903) 307-7300 or request a demo and we will quote your specific operation.
Cloud or on-premise, custom-quoted on your operation — most cloud deployments are live in 3-5 days.
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