Cloud-hosted or on your own servers — real-time monitoring, PLC programming, and UL 508A panels for Gulf Coast operators, from one Texas team.
Merobix delivers SCADA monitoring for Houston 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.
Houston is not a one-industry town, and its monitoring needs are not one-shape either. The Ship Channel chemical corridor runs continuous processes where an unnoticed deviation becomes a quality or safety event. Gulf Coast midstream moves product through compressor stations, meter runs, and terminals that sit unmanned most of the day. Gas processing and fractionation facilities between Houston and Mont Belvieu juggle hundreds of instruments per train. Merobix ships 20 protocol drivers across 7 protocol families — Modbus, EtherNet/IP, OPC UA, DNP3, MQTT/Sparkplug B, BACnet, and more — so the same platform can read a 20-year-old flow computer and a brand-new edge device 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 Houston 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 unmanned-site failure costs you today, run the ROI calculator against your current callout and windshield-time 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 matters along the Gulf Coast. A midstream operator with 15 unmanned sites usually wants hosted SCADA and wants it this week. A chemical plant inside the Ship Channel corridor 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 Houston fit | Midstream, gas processing, multi-site operators | Chemical plants, regulated OT networks, 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 — combustor integration is a standard job for our engineers, not an exotic request. We connect the burner management system over Modbus (or whichever protocol it speaks), map pilot status, stack temperature, valve position, and runtime into the dashboard, and configure alarms so a pilot-out condition pages an operator in under 30 seconds instead of waiting for the next drive-by.
Around Houston that is increasingly a compliance issue, not just an operations issue: a combustor or vapor recovery unit that quietly goes down at a tank battery can turn into a reportable emissions event before anyone is on location. Continuous monitoring with a timestamped historian record is the cheapest defense you can buy. The same integration workflow covers the rest of a typical Gulf Coast site:
Every integration ends the same way: tags mapped, alarm thresholds set with your operations team, historian trending live, and reports scheduled. If you are consolidating from several legacy systems, our SCADA migration guide walks through how we cut over without losing history.
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 Houston-area 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 Gulf Coast operator:
Full scope and specs are on our services page; for background reading, see the control panel fabrication guide.
Yes — we provide SCADA programming and integration in Dallas, TX, the same way we serve Houston: remote-first engineering with on-site trips for commissioning, panel installs, and startups. Merobix is headquartered in Midland in the Permian Basin, which means our engineers work Texas oil and gas hours and drive Texas highways — Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Midland-Odessa are all inside the regular rotation.
The working model is simple. Design, tag mapping, alarm configuration, dashboard builds, and PLC program changes happen remotely — you are not paying windshield time for work that happens at a keyboard. Site visits are reserved for the things that genuinely need boots on gravel: 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. Merobix is a Texas company and Houston is one of our primary service areas. We deploy cloud-hosted or on-premise SCADA for midstream, gas processing, and chemical operators across the Gulf Coast, and our engineers travel to Houston-area sites for commissioning, panel installation, and PLC work. Day-to-day support is handled remotely, so most configuration changes and troubleshooting 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. Combustors, vapor recovery units, and flares are standard integrations for us. We bring pilot status, burner temperature, valve position, and runtime into the dashboard over Modbus or whatever protocol the burner management system speaks, then configure alarms so operators get an SMS in under 30 seconds when a pilot goes out. That matters in Houston, where a downed combustor can become an emissions event.
Yes. We provide SCADA programming, integration, and panel fabrication across Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Midland-Odessa, and the rest of Texas, and we support customers in all 50 states. Panels are built and FAT-tested in Texas, shipped to your site, and commissioned by our engineers or alongside your local electrician.
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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