How to Combat a Dusty Server Room

How to protect your switches and fiber from the dangers of dust

Construction sites are dirty, dusty places. If you’ve ever been on one, you know the dust gets everywhere. Thick film covers every surface and particles sneak into every crevice. The finer the dust, the greater the damage it can do to your brand-new devices if you install them too early. There are steps you can […]

The Business Case for BACnet/IP

Business case for BACnet IP versus MSTP Phil Zito Building Automation and Ryan Hughson webinar

More and more buildings are moving onto BACnet/IP. Not just because of the technological benefits — although IP is lauded for its simplicity and inherent connectivity. No, the shift is due to the business benefits of BACnet/IP. What is the business case for BACnet/IP? Why should we be implementing this technology? We recently had the […]

Fine-tuning diagnostic checks in Visual BACnet

Visual BACnet update diagnostic checks

Our developers have been hard at work updating Visual BACnet, and we’re excited to share these changes with you. Read on for some key updates we’ll be rolling out over the next two weeks! The two most important adjustments are: We are also rolling out many more changes, some today and some at the end […]

Small deployment? No problem.

Optigo Networks edge switches

Optigo Connect is now available for any building, no matter the deployment size. Enhance an existing network, or form the base for a new building to grow into the full Optigo solution. With the ONS-C401i and ONS-C810p, you can start with one or two edge switches and expand over time. These edge switches work on […]

Will IoT Disrupt BACnet and BAS?

Smart buildings, BIoT, and the future of BACnet

November 27, 2018, Vancouver, BC – Vancouver-based Optigo Networks, the network connectivity, monitoring, and analytics company, has released a whitepaper on the future of BACnet and the Building Internet of Things (BIoT). This whitepaper probes the biggest questions we face in BACnet, the building automation communications protocol, and our smart buildings today. Interviewees discussed data privacy […]

How Princeton Got Top Vendors Working Together

Princeton University's sharkfest top vendors

Gary Brancato had a problem. As a controls engineer at Princeton University, he has a small team and a big campus. It’s just him and his fellow controls engineer Adam, juggling 1,000 Ethernet devices from more than a dozen vendors. When there are network issues, there’s lots of finger-pointing between the vendors, passing the buck […]

How Penn State Monitors For a Smart, Healthy Network

Penn State University Visual BACnet Site Monitoring

Not so long ago, Penn State had big network problems. Think tons of network traffic, buildings dropping offline — that sort of thing. When Tom Walker first started working at PSU four years ago, broadcast traffic was pushing 90,000 packets per hour. He was on the phone almost every single night because devices were down or […]

Optigo Networks and Distech Controls to Deliver Efficient Buildings

Optigo Networks Distech Controls team up Mathieu Houle Wayne Tighe

Vancouver-based Optigo Networks has teamed up with Distech Controls, expanding its reach globally. The Optigo ConnectTM line of hardware and software solutions for smart buildings will now be available through Distech Controls and their respective channels. With their vision for efficient, technologically advanced smart buildings, this collaboration is a natural step for the two Canadian […]

Delta to Offer Optigo Networks’ Building Solutions

perth australia delta building automation

April 12, 2018, Vancouver and Australia – Today, Vancouver-based Optigo Networks announced a new partnership with Australian integrator, Delta Building Automation. Optigo Networks’ OT network platform, Optigo ConnectTM, will now be available throughout Delta Australia’s projects.

Optigo Networks blasts off in ICT

ready to rocket top company optigo

Optigo Networks is happy to announce that we are Ready to Rocket’s top pick for a company in ICT this year. This puts us in the upper stratosphere for information and communications tech companies.