For ANDO Technik , the move to UniCloud delivered immediate operational savings. By combining Unitronics UniCloud with UniStream Cloud-inside PLCs, the company reduced on-site service costs by up to 80% and cut pump energy consumption by as much as 50%—while eliminating the need for external IIoT gateways, custom cloud software, or third-party integration specialists. Instead of dispatching technicians to remote irrigation sites to diagnose vague customer complaints, ANDO Technik engineers can now remotely monitor alarms, trends, HMI screens, and live pump telemetry directly from the office..
While many IIoT initiatives stall due to IT complexity, UniCloud’s no-code paradigm allowed ANDO Technik to turn VFD-based pump controllers into serviceable, observable fleet assets, complete with management dashboards, secure remote access (VNC + VPN), alarms, and historical trending
ANDO Technik GmbH is a specialist in high-performance pump control and irrigation systems. Their expertise spans agricultural irrigation—including open fields, greenhouses, and poly tunnels—to critical drainage management for large-scale construction sites. Their latest product line of FluMaster eco C pump controllers are designed to bring industrial-grade precision to the field, ensuring that water is delivered or removed with maximum efficiency.
Managing Director Jonas Buuck faced a recurring logistical nightmare: “blind” troubleshooting. When an irrigation system in a remote field failed, the customer’s description was often vague. ANDO Technik technicians were forced to “play detective,” driving hours to the site just to identify a simple parameter error or a dry-running pump.
With site visits costing the customer as much as 800€ in travel and labor, and pumps consuming thousands of Euros in energy annually, ANDO Technik needed a way to see what the customer was seeing without leaving Hamburg—in essence, they required “Digital Twin” visibility of every machine in the field.
Instead of building a custom cloud infrastructure from scratch, ANDO Technik leveraged UniCloud. As a no-code platform, it allowed their engineering team to build professional, data-rich dashboards and secure remote access portals themselves.
The platform provides a comprehensive suite of tools that have redefined their service workflow:
To bridge the gap between the physical system and the cloud, ANDO Technik utilizes a multi-layered architecture.
2. Geographic Fleet Overview: Using the UniCloud Map widget, technicians can manage remote well sites across a wide area. Color-coded markers (such as Red for major bursts) allow for at-a-glance status checks of the entire fleet.
3. IIoT Visualization and Logic Through UniCloud, ANDO Technik created a multi-tenant environment that enables them to see their entire organization and drill down to each customer’s specific fleet of pumps.
By making UniCloud the center of their strategy, ANDO Technik easily embedded IIoT into their systems and gained a number of advantages:
By combining industrial control with built-in cloud connectivity, ANDO Technik gained complete operational visibility into its distributed pump systems, fundamentally changing how they support customers in the field. Commissioning, troubleshooting, and lifecycle support no longer collapse into phone calls, site visits, and guesswork.
“The UniCloud interface is incredibly intuitive. For us, it’s a whole package. We don’t just sell a turnkey system and leave the customer on their own. With UniCloud, we provide continuing maintenance and problem management—we can see the error messages and the tags immediately. It’s really easy to help the customer when you have the full picture.” — Jonas Buuck, Managing Director, ANDO Technik .
“For us the controller is the heart of the system. With UniStream Cloud-inside PLCs and UniCloud we have a complete platform—from control and monitoring to remote service. It allows us to support our customers much more efficiently.”
— Jonas Buuck, Managing Director, ANDO Technik
“What I really appreciate about using Unitronics products is that everything is kept as simple as possible. UniCloud is intuitive, and it is very easy to program with UniLogic. It’s a whole package—the controller is the heart of the system.” — Jonas Buuck, Managing Director, ANDO Technik .
