Perspective Module

Build mobile-responsive HTML applications that work on any screen

With Perspective, you can easily create full-fledged industrial applications in HTML5 for monitoring and controlling your process directly from your mobile device, desktop, or control panel. Whether it’s for SCADA, HMI, or any other purpose, the applications you build in Perspective look beautiful and run seamlessly on your device or in any major browser.

Built for mobile, ready for the field

With Perspective Workstation, you can deploy runtime clients directly via the web on any HMI, desktop, workstation, and configuration with multiple monitors, without the need for a third-party web browser. Perspective Mobile puts the power of your production floor in the palm of your hand. By enabling you to create beautiful, mobile-responsive industrial applications that effortlessly run on any mobile device, Perspective Mobile allows you to view and manage your processes from anywhere.

Real control at your fingertips
View your entire system at a glance and manage your processes with touchscreen capabilities, including pinch and zoom.

Easily scan barcodes and more
Turn your mobile device into a scanner that easily sends any barcode, including QR codes, to your SCADA system.

Take advantage of geolocation
Utilize your mobile device’s GPS to provide geolocation data to enhance your application in the field.

Connect to bluetooth devices
Leverage your mobile device’s capabilities to connect directly to Bluetooth devices.

Utilize your mobile device’s accelerometer
Take full advantage of your mobile device’s accelerometer to add a new level of interaction to your application.

Ignition Perspective responds to you
It automatically adjusts to screens of any size, providing a personalized view of your unique processes, optimized for every device you use.

Design screens of any size
Streamline your development process with robust design components and features that allow you to design for mobile devices, desktops, monitors, and control panels simultaneously. With new, responsively optimized container types, you can customize the user experience in the Ignition Designer with a simple selection.

Run in kiosk mode
With Perspective Workstation, you can allow your clients to work in kiosk mode, eliminating distractions from the underlying operating system and keeping operators focused on what matters.

Secure systems with advanced protocols
Ignition Perspective is built from the ground up with modern cybersecurity protocols at the forefront. It supports leading encryption protocols and is compatible with current identity infrastructure. The permission model enables role-based security for comprehensive system protection.

Easily configure components with message handling
Easily build robust systems using message handling, a system that allows components to receive messages directly from each other. This makes it easier than ever to create strong, flexible, and complex connections between components and requires less code.

Utilize CSS3 for cross-project styling
Use powerful and flexible CSS3 styles to change the appearance or position of anything in your application and to allow changes across the entire system. With Perspective, it’s easy and fast to create consistent styles for large projects.

Native client launchers
With native client launchers for Windows, Mac, and Linux, you can easily start clients on any major operating system without the need for plugins.

Update your applications instantly
Data is delivered directly to a Perspective application via a persistent communication channel, so any visualizations or tag changes are immediately reflected in your application.

Easy to learn
Perspective’s design environment is designed for optimal effectiveness and easy adoption, being intuitive and user-friendly. Buttons, charts, displays, and images inherit current SCADA sensitivities with additional mobile capabilities enabled directly in the design environment.

Use any major operating system, even iOS and Android
Ignition Perspective clients can run on any major operating system and effortlessly on iOS and Android with the Ignition Perspective app.

A universal platform
Perspective runs on Ignition’s universal platform and seamlessly integrates with all Ignition modules. You can easily build and deploy any kind of industrial application, all with one platform.

Unlimited number of clients

With Perspective, you can effortlessly start an unlimited number of runtime clients on as many mobile devices, HMIs, industrial panels, PCs, and laptops as you need.