We connect homes, equipment and industrial machines to Telegram. Lower the shutters, set the heating and check the temperature and humidity at home from your phone, or receive alarms, logs and reports from your production line, all in an app you already use every day.
The same simple idea, a Telegram chat with what you want to control, designed for two very different needs.
For your house or apartment. Control comfort from anywhere with a message or a tap.
For machines, plants and production lines. Know what is happening and act before a fault becomes downtime.
Lower the shutters when you leave and warm up the house before you get back. Everything happens in a Telegram chat, with no extra app to install.
Alarms, logs, remote control and reports for machines, plants and production lines, in the chat your team already uses.
Faults, threshold breaches and stoppages reach the right person immediately, wherever they are, without anyone needing to stand next to the HMI.
Communication works both ways. Operators can query values, change setpoints and start or stop sequences by typing a command or tapping a button in the chat.
Every event, measured value and operator command is recorded with a timestamp, so you always know what happened and who did what.
Production summaries, counters and trends delivered automatically, plus live dashboards when you want to dig deeper.
A small gateway sits next to your machine, reads its data and sends it to Telegram through an encrypted connection. Commands travel back the same way.
PLC, CNC, inverter, sensor or custom controller. We work with what you already have installed.
Compact DIN-rail or embedded unit. It applies your alarm rules, buffers data if the connection drops and only accepts commands from authorized users.
Your team receives messages and sends commands from phone, tablet or desktop, on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and the web.
Examples from vending, manufacturing, utilities and building automation. Every project is configured around your process.
Every vending machine sends you a daily report with its sales, takings, products running low and any faults. You can plan refill rounds before a machine runs empty and send a technician only when one is needed.
Machine stoppages, low material warnings and end-of-shift output, sent straight to the line supervisor.
Tank levels, pump faults and remote start or stop for unattended stations. Ask /levels at any time.
Temperature limits, door-open alarms and compressor status, with logged history for HACCP traceability.
Inverter faults, daily yield, battery state and consumption peaks, all in a single chat for every site.
Offer remote assistance on the machines you sell. Get fault codes from customers' sites before you dispatch a technician.
Boilers, gates, access control and technical alarms across several buildings, with commands limited to authorized staff.
Your team already knows how to use a chat. No training, no extra accounts and no app to roll out.
Encrypted connections, user whitelists, per-user permissions and confirmation steps on critical commands. The gateway makes only outbound connections, so you don't need to open any ports on your network.
We are an electronics and firmware design studio. We write the integration for your controller, your signals and your alarm logic.
If the connection drops, the gateway keeps monitoring, stores the events and sends them as soon as it is back online.
# steplab-gateway · line2 · event log 14:02:11 modbus read M3.temp = 92.0 °C 14:02:11 rule ALARM M3.temp > 85 → priority HIGH 14:02:12 tg send → group "Line 2 Maintenance" 14:02:12 plc write line2.speed = 40% 14:03:05 tg recv /status line2 from @marco (authorized) 14:03:05 tg send status + chart.png 14:21:40 tg recv "Resume 100%" from @marco 14:21:40 auth role=supervisor → allowed 14:21:41 plc write line2.speed = 100% OK 14:22:00 tg recv /reset from @guest 14:22:00 auth denied · not in whitelist
We handle the whole project: hardware, firmware, bot configuration and commissioning.
We review your machine, the controller and the signals you want to monitor or control.
Together we define alarms, recipients, commands, permissions and dashboard layout.
We install the gateway, connect it to the machine and test every message and command, on site or remotely.
We provide updates, new rules and extra machines whenever you need them, with direct access to the engineers who built the system.
In most cases, yes. We check your existing motorized shutters and heating system, then install a small module that connects them to Telegram, usually without replacing motors or the boiler.
Yes. We can install compact sensors in the rooms you want to monitor. You can read the values whenever you like and get a notification when they go outside the range you set, which is useful for preventing mould or checking a second home.
Yes. You decide who has access. Each family member uses their own Telegram account, and anyone not on the list is ignored.
In most cases, yes. We work with Modbus RTU/TCP, Siemens S7, OPC UA, MQTT, serial protocols and plain digital and analog I/O. For older machines with no communication port, we can read signals directly from relays, lamps or sensors.
Only users on a whitelist can send commands, and each user can have their own permissions. Critical actions require confirmation, every command is logged, and you decide which commands are allowed. Safety functions always stay in the machine's own safety circuits and are never replaced by the bot.
No. The gateway only makes outbound encrypted connections, so the installation leaves your network's inbound rules unchanged. Where no network is available, a 4G/LTE version is available.
The gateway keeps monitoring locally, stores events and sends them when the connection comes back. It can also send a notification when the connection is lost and when it is restored.
Yes. You can route messages by priority, machine, department or shift, and send them to individual users or to Telegram groups.
Yes. As an electronics and firmware design studio, we can embed the connectivity directly in your product, either on a custom board or as an add-on module, so you can offer remote monitoring to your customers.
Tell us about your home or your equipment and what you want to control. We'll reply with a technical proposal and a quote.