SeQent Ltd

About SeQent Ltd

SeQent Ltd is an industrial automation software company located in the Longwoods neighborhood of London, Ontario. The business serves manufacturing facilities and high-stakes industries worldwide, including automotive, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, energy, and data centers. They provide industrial alarm management and notification software designed to connect systems such as SCADA, MES, PLC, and IIoT to deliver real-time alerts to operators and maintenance teams. The company offers a unified platform for industrial monitoring that handles the full lifecycle of an alarm, from the first signal to final resolution. Their software supports multi-channel notifications, sending alerts via radio, SMS, voice calls, overhead pagers, and plant-floor apps. Specifically, SeQent provides native integration with Motorola Solutions MOTOTRBO infrastructure, allowing for text messaging and text-to-speech audio on various radio models and repeaters. They also offer WAVE PTX smartphone interoperability. Their solutions include on-premise/self-hosted deployments for mission-critical plants and subscription-based SaaS options. They also provide specialized applications for food and beverage plants to monitor cold chain integrity and process systems, as well as safety-critical integrations for fire, gas detection, and environmental monitoring. Founded in the 1990s in London, SeQent has established long-standing relationships with major customers like Ford, Stellantis, and General Motors. The company describes itself as an early pioneer of the Industrial Internet of Things, shaped by its proximity to North America's industrial corridors. Following the acquisition of Open Automation Software, their platform now connects a wide range of hardware, including Allen-Bradley and Siemens controllers, Modbus devices, and OPC servers. The company is currently led by Co-CEOs Sheret Ross and Michael Levine. SeQent's professional services team assists with deployments, which typically take between two to six weeks depending on the size of the plant and required customizations. They work with clients to review radio topology, install software, and map alarm notifications to specific recipients or talkgroups.