Dattus, a US-based industrial connectivity technology developer assisted by Purdue University’s Foundry accelerator, was acquired by manufacturing automation software provider Plex Systems for an undisclosed sum yesterday.

Founded in 2013 as Bearing Analytics, Dattus sells data aggregation tools to industrial clients to help them expediently monitor disparate information sources associated with the internet of things (IoT), such as sensors or connected machines.

The technology is designed to optimise performance, slash costs and maintain uptime at manufacturing plants. Features include a…