Industry collaborates with ESRF specialistsI M P A C T O N I N D U S T R Y

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T H E C O M P A N Y

S2Innovation makes dedicated sof tware to control

and monitor large-scale processes, largely based

on Tango, a controls “toolkit” developed by the

ESRF and other light sources. Formed in 2017,

the company is furthering the exploitation of

Tango for big science and industry. It is based in

Krakow, Poland, and currently has 11 employees

and a turnover of €300k.

T H E W O R K

Tango is an open-source sof tware toolkit that excels

at communicating with very dif ferent species of

hardware. The ESRF invented the underlying

concept more than three decades ago to control

its original accelerator complex, although Tango

itself is a more recent co-development with other

synchrotron light-sources in Europe. Thanks to its

increasing uptake, several computing companies

have begun to of fer Tango support.

One of those is S2Innovation, which has the

specif ic goal of taking Tango’s benef its to industry.

Although the young company’s clients are only

scientif ic facilities at present, it is in talks with those

in industry. Its of fering is a bespoke, cloud-based

system that employs Tango controls to manage all

sorts of hardware, and to alert operators to faults

in large-scale processes.

T H E I M P A C T

“I was working with Tango at the Solaris synchrotron

in Krakow when I f irst realised how ef fective it could

be for industry. Although industry already has

some of its own solutions, Tango is open-source,

which means clients can have it modif ied as they

wish to suit their needs. Although we are a private

company, there is still a collaborative spirit when

we work on Tango with the ESRF and the other

scientif ic facilities that have developed it in the past

And that collaboration means that industry stands

to gain from the cuttingedge developments in the

scientif ic world such as ultrafast and scalable data

acquisition The industry we are in talks with told

us they could f ind no other solution on the market

Piotr Goryl founder and CTO S2Innovation

“There is a collaborative

spirit when we work

with the ESRF.”

Piotr Goryl, founder and CTO,

S2Innovation

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KEY FACTS

Tango Controls is a free opensource

deviceoriented controls toolkit for controlling

any kind of hardware or sof tware and building

supervisory control and data acquisition

systems

For more information please visit

wwwtangocontrolsorg