iQagent vs Premium HMI Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iQagent
This augmented reality app uses QR codes to display live process data, schematics, and resources for industrial equipment. It allows users to access production numbers, maintenance procedures, and troubleshooting information directly from their devices.
- Augmented reality equipment recognition
- Live process data display
- Schematics and resource access
- QR code scanning for POIs
- Preventative maintenance procedures
- Trouble reporting
- Data recording and snapshot features
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iQagent is an award winning 'Practical' Augmented Reality app that recognizes equipment on your plant floor using QR Codes (Points Of Interest) and displays relevant live process data, schematics and other resources about it on your iPad or iPhone. For instance, you could scan a QR code an assembly line with your iPhone or iPad, and show the number of units produced, production rate, and number of rejects, all live data from your HMI, SCADA, PLC (via OPCDA or OPCUA) or Database via ODBC. You can also view preventative maintenance procedures and trouble reports from your local systems, or call up production schedules from a database, or email or call a vendor or supervisor. iQagent is also a holistic data display and recorder for industrial and process environments. It will allow you to make your plant floor a data rich environment where you can access live process data, documentation, and resource links on specific machines, equipment, and processes on the plant floor. Recent Awards: - Sikorsky Innovation Award, Honorable Mention, 2015 - Tabby/Business - Best Business Intelligence, and Resource App, 2014 - Control Engineering Apps For Engineers (Finalist) 2013 - Plant Engineering's Product Of The Year, Gold Award, 2012 How It Works: Using the iQagent configuration utility, create and configure Point Of Interest (POIs) for equipment, machines, work cells and processes around your plant. The POI Data View shows live process data you configure by browsing your existing SCADA, HMI, PLC or DCS via OPCDA or ODBC. You can also configure charts to show the data such as trends, bar graphs or pie charts. The POI Info View allows you to associate any document, URL, email address or other resource to allow for quick access. Next, print each POI's QR code and place them near the actual equipment or process in the plant or environment. On the Plant floor, use the iQagent iPad App to scan the QR Codes to show the data views for POI. You can also quickly view any POI by simply browsing to them. There is even a favorites list for quick access. Having problems with your process, or unscheduled downtime? iQagent can help resolve these costly problems quickly! Use our patented record or snapshot features to record the problem, which includes everything on the display: live Data Views, Info Views, video and your annotations directly on the screen. The audio feed will capture the process sounds and operator feedback on the issue. The resulting mp4 video is a holistic representation of your process which can be emailed or sent to offsite support personnel who can quickly identify and isolate the problem without waiting for them to come to the site! iQagent works with Apple TV, so the display can be streamed to your conference room's HDTV, allowing management to review process issues real time without having to disturb production. iQagent comes with a full featured internal mode to allow scanning of QR Codes and simulated data and info views. Visit us online for sample QR Codes that work with the demo mode for testing. Features: Display live process data and info views anywhere you have a connection (wireless or 4G). Instant access to relevant data for any configured POI: Live data (PLC, SCADA or ODBC), charts, documents, URLs, email addresses, work order requests, or intranet data sites. Record holistic videos, including Live video from process, data and document overlays; audio from user and on screen notes. Send these recordings to remote technical staff for quick problem analysis.
Premium HMI Mobile
Access your industrial automation HMI applications on your iOS device. This app offers a mobile, multi-touch experience for machine visualization software, allowing real-time process control while moving around production lines.
- Mobile HMI application access
- Multi-touch experience
- Machine visualization software
- Real-time process control
- Vector graphic objects
- Data logging and storage
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Premium HMI Mobile brings your HMI application directly to your IOS device providing a mobile and multitouch experience to your machine visualization software. ASEM Premium HMI is one of the most powerful and complete software to create HMI applications for industrial automation. With Premium HMI Studio you can quickly develop advanced HMI applications featuring vector graphic objects including technologies for automatic screen adaptation and consequent application portability. It provides advanced data logging and storage, a wide range of security options to protect development know-how and to ensure traceability of users’ activity. Furthermore Premium HMI supports complete scripting with plenty of interfaces to objects and system functions. Premium HMI Mobile is a full-featured mobile and multi-touch complement to the Operator Panel/Panel PC monitoring, enabling the user to move around machines and along production lines while remaining in control of real-time processes and Premium HMI applications running on the IOS device connected to the same local WiFi network.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: iQagent at every 2 months against Premium HMI Mobile's every 7 months. Premium HMI Mobile's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 16.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
iQagent ships an update every 2 months, Premium HMI Mobile every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iQagent | Premium HMI Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iQuest, inc. | ASEM S.p.A. |
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iQagent
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In-app purchases
iQagent
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases









