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Integration guide

Public · Status: ⬜ draft

1. Purpose

Get BulkScanPro measurements into your systems with minimal effort. There are four surfaces — use whichever fits your stack; you can combine them.

2. Choose a surface

Surface Latency Shape Typical consumer Status
REST API on-demand / near-real-time JSON apps, dashboards, webhooks 🔄
Modbus TCP live (at the edge) registers SCADA / PLC ⬜ planned
S3 export per-convoy (push) files (MCAP/Parquet/PNG/PDF) data lake, batch ETL, archive
Database historical tables BI / SQL analytics ⬜ design

3. What every measurement carries

Regardless of surface, a measurement gives you, per car: volume (m³), length (m), position in the convoy, timestamp, direction, confidence, and (if tagged) the RFID equipment id. The net loaded volume is the loaded−empty delta across passes. See the data model.

4. Authentication

All cloud surfaces use a single, simple scheme: a per-organization API key. Send it as X-API-KEY: bsp_live_xxx (or Authorization: Bearer bsp_live_xxx) on every request to the cloud base URL https://bsp.ita.builders/api/v1. The key both authenticates and scopes results to your organization — you never pass an org id and never see another tenant's data. The same key gates presigned S3 access (REST returns the URLs) and is the credential used to provision DB access. The Modbus surface is local to the edge node and uses network-level access, not the API key. See Getting started. 🔄 Proposed contract — finalized as the public API ships.