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Manufacturing IoT on CSA Loom

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Defense industrial base (CMMC L2/L3-aligned) IoT analytics. Sensor data from manufacturing equipment → real-time monitoring + predictive maintenance + supply-chain visibility.

What you'll build

Same architecture as IoT Streaming, with CMMC-aligned controls:

Source: Manufacturing sensors (IoT Hub + edge gateways)
    ↓ Loom Real-Time Hub
Eventstream (ASA): filter, project, anomaly detection
    ↓ Eventhouse / KQL DB
Real-Time Dashboard (production-floor monitoring)
    ↓ Loom Activator Engine
Maintenance alerts: equipment-degradation patterns → maintenance team
    ↓ Loom Direct-Lake-Shim
Power BI Premium semantic model (OEE, downtime trend, OEE)
    ↓ Loom Data Agent
NL Q&A: "What's the OEE for line 5 this week?"
        "Show me top 10 root causes for downtime this month"

CMMC L2/L3 alignment

Per CMMC 2.0 L2 extension:

  • Deployed in GCC-High (ITAR-eligible boundary)
  • Customer-managed deploy (no publisher persistent access)
  • Per-workspace Entra groups limited to US-person workforce
  • Sensitivity labels: ITAR-Restricted for CUI manufacturing data
  • Sentinel rules for cross-workspace exfiltration patterns
  • 1-year audit log retention (federal contractor baseline)

Components

Loom capability Used for
Real-Time Hub Manufacturing sensor source registration
Eventstream (ASA) Per-equipment anomaly detection
ADX KQL store for time-series analytics
Activator Engine Maintenance alert dispatch
Power BI Premium OEE + downtime dashboards
Loom Data Agent NL Q&A for plant managers

Per-boundary notes

Boundary Notes
Commercial Not recommended for ITAR workloads
GCC Not ITAR-eligible
GCC-High / IL4 Recommended for ITAR + CMMC L2/L3
IL5 (v1.1) Classified DIB workloads

CMMC-aligned controls implementation

CMMC Practice Loom contribution
AC.L2-3.1.1 Limit access Entra groups + per-workspace UAMI
AU.L2-3.3.1 Create audit logs LAW + Sentinel ingest
CM.L2-3.4.1 Baseline configuration Bicep + Git
IA.L2-3.5.3 MFA Entra Conditional Access
IR.L2-3.6.1 Incident response Sentinel + Loom runbooks
MA.L2-3.7.2 Remote maintenance MCP-as-update-channel (PIM-elevated, audit-logged)
MP.L2-3.8.1 Protect CUI media ADLS encryption + sensitivity labels
SC.L2-3.13.1 Boundary protection Hub-spoke + Private Endpoints
SI.L2-3.14.1 Identify flaws Defender for Cloud (per-workload)

Cost (F32 GCC-H baseline for mid-size manufacturer)

~$8,500/mo: - Power BI Premium F32: $4,200 - IoT Hub (1M msgs/day): $250 - Stream Analytics (5 SUs): $400 - ADX cluster (D14_v2): $600 - Databricks Premium (predictive ML): $1,500 - ADLS Gen2: $300 - AOAI (Data Agent): $250 - Sentinel (5 GB/day): $700 - Misc: $300

Source code

examples/fiab-manufacturing-iot/

Forward migration

Same as IoT Streaming.