Zoho IoT
Industrial IoT Platform
IIoT, Energy Management, Smart Buildings, Fleet Management, IoT for OEMs – Zoho IoT is a one-stop shop for all your IoT needs.
Start With One Line.
Scale to Every Plant.
IIoT does not have to start plant-wide — and it does not have to stay small. Instrument one line, prove it in a month, then scale into an end-to-end connected manufacturing operation.
North Building, Level 3 · Automation · Zoho Corporation
We are on the floor with the Zoho Corporation team. Bring your machine list and we will tell you what a first line takes.
Runs on What You Have
Zoho IoT reads FANUC, Mazak, Makino, and Haas-class controllers and Siemens or Allen-Bradley PLCs over MTConnect, OPC UA, Modbus, and more. Older machines get a sensor and a gateway.
Priced Like Software
Zoho IoT starts with a free 30-day trial and plans sized from 25 devices. You are not buying a platform to find out whether it works.
End to End, Not a Dashboard
Zoho IoT carries the whole journey: connectivity, monitoring, analytics, work orders, maintenance, automation, and AI. Hourless connects it to CRM, Inventory, and Books.
Figures published by Zoho for Industrial IoT deployments. Your pilot is measured against the records your shop keeps today.
First-Line Pilot
One line, instrumented and reporting inside a month. Fixed scope, fixed price, and a dashboard your plant manager can open on day one.
Scope the PilotWhat Actually Gets Built on Your Floor
Machine Monitoring
Real-time machine state, alarms, load, speed, and temperature. You find out a spindle stopped from the dashboard, not from the operator.
OEE and Downtime
Availability, performance, and quality yield per line, with stoppage cause and duration — benchmarked against the sheet on the wall.
Maintenance and Work Orders
Condition-based maintenance, alarm rules with colour-coded severity, and work orders that reach a technician's phone instead of a clipboard.
Connected to the Back Office
Telemetry that opens a ticket, reserves a part, or raises a service invoice. This is the loop most IIoT projects never close — and the reason they stall.
Retrofit Is the Whole Point
If the make is on this list, nothing on your floor gets replaced. Where a machine predates data ports, it gets an external sensor and an edge gateway. Zoho EdgeX handles sites with no clean network path to the internet.
Zoho IoT also coexists with an existing SCADA or BMS rather than displacing it.
High-frequency collection runs at up to 1 kHz on specific CNC controls, for feeding machine-learning models directly.
The Path After the Pilot
Discovery and Site Assessment
We walk the floor, inventory the makes, and agree what decision the data has to change.
Connectivity and Modelling
Gateways, device models, and a location hierarchy that still makes sense at ten sites.
Dashboards, Alarms, Reporting
Role-scoped views for operators, maintenance, and the owner. Alerts that name an action.
Business System Integration
Into CRM, Inventory, Books, FSM, Desk, and Analytics over REST APIs.
Rollout and Expansion
Configure one model, stamp out hundreds of instances, push a change once.
Fundable From an Operations Budget
Priced per application per month, billed annually. That entry cost is the reason a first line does not need a capital request — which is what kills most IIoT proposals.
Pilots and single-purpose monitors. No workflow automation, custom modules, or schedules.
+$2 per additional device
The realistic production floor. Workflow and schedules unlock here, so alerts can drive actions.
+$1.50 per additional device
Multi-line or multi-site. Above roughly 167 devices this costs less than Standard plus add-ons.
+$1.25 per additional device
Portfolio deployments, 36-month retention, 10 custom modules, 5 GB attachments.
+$1 per additional device
Month-to-month runs $59 · $180 · $300 · $600. Beyond about 500 devices, or with unusual throughput and retention needs, the route is a Flex quote. A free 30-day trial comes first either way.
How Many Things Need Watching?
Count the machines, meters, and sensors you would put on the platform. Getting this number wrong is the most common way an IIoT quote is wrong.
Two caveats worth raising early. Message volume, not device count, is the real constraint — sub-second sampling outgrows an edition long before the units do. And the edition's device model allowance counts kinds of equipment, not units: 200 identical sensors need one model, twelve makes of machine need twelve.
Workflow and schedules unlock at Standard, which is what turns a dashboard into something that acts.
What to Know Before You Start
It Is Not in Zoho One
Zoho IoT is licensed separately. A Zoho One customer still pays for IoT.
Hardware Is a Separate Cost
Sensors, gateways, meters, and installation are additional, and on many projects they are the larger line item.
Raw Retention Is One Month
Every edition keeps raw messages for one month. Long-horizon telemetry needs an export path, typically Zoho Analytics.
Region Is Set at Sign-Up
The data centre follows the country selected when the account is created. Settle residency requirements first.
Frequently Asked Questions
The six that come up at every booth.
Almost always. Zoho IoT reads the major controller and PLC families directly, so no equipment is replaced. Machines with no data port get an external sensor and an edge gateway instead, and retrofit is dramatically cheaper than greenfield.
The First-Line Pilot is scoped to produce a live dashboard inside a month: one line or cell, instrumented, with uptime, alarms, and cycle counts measured against the manual records you keep today.
Our field partners handle sensors, gateways, and commissioning on your floor. Your own technicians can do the sensor provisioning too — the web interface is built for remote configuration rather than site visits.
No hourly rate. Software implementation is not a quantifiable process, so the value of the work sets the price — fixed-price scope, no lock-in contracts, no outsourcing.
No. Zoho IoT sits alongside them, plugging into PLC and SCADA systems and adding the reporting, portfolio view, analytics, and business-system integration that those platforms were never built to provide.
Yes — IoT for OEMs. Ship connected products with remote diagnostics, a white-labelled customer portal, and multi-tenant client management. Configure one device model and stamp out an instance per unit sold, which turns service calls into recurring revenue.
North Building, Level 3 · Automation · Zoho Corporation
McCormick Place, Chicago · September 14–19, 2026
Not at the show? The same 20 minutes works over a call — we look at your machine list and tell you what a first line would take.
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