After COVID-19: What’s Next for Building Automation
By Pook-Ping Yao, CEO, Optigo Networks What a time it’s been. We’re a few months into what could be a year — or more — of the new normal. I’ve enjoyed seeing more of my wife and kids, eating daily lunches together, and exploring our board game collection. But we’re also learning to cope in a world […]
Foresight is 2020: Predictions for smart buildings and IoT in 2020
You could safely term the last decade of tech innovation “the Smartphone Era.” The first iPhone was released almost 13 years ago, in 2007. Since then, we’ve gone from seeing smartphones as something of a fingerprint-smudged fad to an essential piece of our lifestyle. So, if we’re leaving behind the Smartphone Era, where will we […]
From Basic to Master with Optigo OneView
There’s a ton you can do to manage your Optigo Connect network in Optigo OneView, from managing and organizing VLANs to creating mirror ports and securing the network at the touch of a button. Find out all the power and control you can get out of a OneView management dashboard in this webinar session: In […]
Where to capture data for Visual BACnet
Visual BACnet is a powerful program that removes the guesswork in diagnosing problems on your network. It provides a concrete Network Health Score, highlights key issues, and empowers users to improve their networks over time. But you have to give it the right data first, and that means knowing where on the network to capture. […]
What Are Passive Optical Splitters? A Simple Explanation
The innovation of Passive Optical Networking, allows us to use these splitters when designing flexible and expandable network topologies, creating fault-tolerant networks, and making efficient use of fiber. Among the most unique features of Optigo Connect are our Passive Optical Splitters. What is Passive Optical Networking? Passive Optical Networking (PON) is a method for creating […]
Crash Course on Making the Most of Advanced Reports
Visual BACnet’s Advanced Reports are a fantastic addition to your service offerings, and a great way to keep your network updates on track. You can use them to: To help folks make the most of Advanced Reports, we hosted a 10-minute webinar digging into the differences between Basic and Advanced Reports, how to read the […]
Network horror stories
Some goblins and ghouls go bump in the night, and then there are BAS misconfigurations that frighten you! This Halloween, we’ve collected some of your spookiest network horror stories.
How to Find and Fix Unresponsive Devices with Optigo Visual BACnet
In theory, unresponsive devices are quite simple: it just means that something, somewhere, is getting lost in translation. But if the device isn’t communicating on the network, you might not even know it’s supposed to be there. Unresponsive Devices can cause a lot of unnecessary traffic on an Operational Technology network, but it can be […]
Become a BACnet Browser Pro
The BACnet Browser in Visual BACnet allows you to customize the information you see and isolate the specific packets you need to solve your problem. It’s one of the most powerful features in Visual BACnet, but an often confused or overlooked one. In this 10-minute webinar, we showed attendees how to navigate the BACnet Browser […]
Project Haystack and Tagging Explained
In building automation, there’s a growing — and very apparent — need for Project Haystack and tagging. For those not familiar, Project Haystack is a grassroots not-for-profit made up of industry representatives like Siemens, Lynxspring, and SkyFoundry. The group is promoting the adoption of data semantics (tagging) in OT networks. They’re dedicated to “fostering the common association […]
