CloudRail is a fully managed solution to acquire data from industrial environments, preprocess it locally, and send it to any cloud — Plug&Play. CloudRail works for greenfield as well as brownfield applications. It uses industry standards like OPC-UA to connect modern equipment, while old machines are retrofitted with secondary sensors. A database of over 12.000 sensor definitions in combination with automated data transformation and device provisioning reduces the setup time for connecting a machine to the cloud from weeks to just hours. CloudRail takes away the hassles of sensor compatibility, communication protocols, data format, and connectivity to the cloud.