An UpKeep alternative, if your plant already has sensors

You have already bought the sensors. Your PLCs and SCADA measure temperature, current, vibration and flow every few seconds, and UpKeep cannot read any of it.

Their answer is to sell you more sensors. Ours is Process Optimization Essential, which reads the ones you own, connected by our engineer, beside our maintenance solution.

	Koidra	UpKeep
Reads the instruments you already own	✅ Process Optimization · Essential	❌ none published
How it gets plant data	Your existing controllers, connected for you	Sells you its own wireless sensors
API access	Included, on every plan	Enterprise plan only
Offline on the floor	Included	Quote-only Professional plan
Condition monitoring	Live tags and a formula engine, with Process Optimization	Thresholds on their own sensors
Grows into process analytics and autonomous control	Process Optimization · Pro and KoPilot, same platform	Not offered

From UpKeep’s published pages, September 2026. A ❌ means we found nothing published claiming it.

You have already bought the sensors

UpKeep’s answer to industrial data is UpKeep Edge: their own battery-powered wireless sensors and a gateway, sold as hardware plus a monthly per-device subscription. Three things to weigh:

• If your equipment is not instrumented yet, we instrument it on request, and the readings land in the process record rather than in a per-device subscription. If it is instrumented, you would be paying to measure what your controllers already measure, and the maintenance system still would not see the process data you own. Process Optimization reads what is already there, and we build the connector where a system is not supported yet.
• Two things worth pricing before you choose. API access sits on the Enterprise plan, and offline mobile is not in either published plan, which matters because offline is what a technician inside a steel building actually needs.
• Their entry plan ends at their own sensors. It cannot read a controller, so a maintenance system that only sees its own sensors is the ceiling you would be buying into.

What our CMMS covers, or what we read and write.