Author: Keith La Rose

Keith La Rose is Chief Revenue Officer at CopperTree Analytics, where over thirteen years he's worked across fault detection and diagnostics, independent data layers, and energy information systems, and more recently helped build and deploy automated commissioning and automated system optimization in live buildings. Keith is also a Contributing Editor at AutomatedBuildings.com, where he writes about data sovereignty and vendor lock-in from the owner's side of the ledger.

Visibility Isn’t the Same as Value: What Happens After You Can See Your OT Network

I worked on a smart hospital project recently where a single meter was flooding a BACnet MS/TP segment with broadcast traffic, sending a message every time its reading drifted by a fractional amount, a rounding error’s worth of change, thousands of times an hour. On a bandwidth-constrained, token-passing bus, that’s enough to lock the whole […]