Top 3 Reasons You Need a Service Contract
Getting a service contract with your systems integrator might seem hard to justify. Of course, we all know preventative care is a good idea in theory: we should bring our cars in for routine maintenance, we should go to the dentist a couple of times a year, and we should get our smart building networks […]
Why should you be an IT partner?
By Kevin Callahan, Product Evangelist at Alerton, and Pook-Ping Yao, CEO at Optigo Networks Decades ago, BACnet changed the business model for our industry. It replaced the totally homogenous, closed, single-vendor buildings with fully open, mixed, multi-vendor systems. While this fragmented the industry and introduced challenges in vendor management, it also gave us an array […]
DEMO: Router Management in OneView
Optigo Connect has long been a powerful solution for Operational Technology (OT) network management. Optigo’s line of networking products, controlled through Optigo OneView, meets OT’s needs for security and scalability while keeping it simple for the building and facility managers who run it all. With router management, the newest addition to the Optigo family, you can […]
IP in the Age of Action
By Kevin Callahan, Product Evangelist Alerton, and Pook-Ping Yao, CEO at Optigo Networks The Internet of Things (IoT) is here and has been for a while. Is now the time for building systems to move to IP? Realistically, MS/TP isn’t disappearing anytime soon. There are plenty of buildings both new and old that currently run […]
Introduction to Power over Ethernet
Power over Ethernet (PoE) has long been linked with IP cameras, VoIP phones, and the like. Increasingly, though, the technology’s being adopted in more areas of traditional building automation. There’s even talk that PoE will drive the smart buildings of the future. Your building might already have lighting controls and fixtures, access control systems, and […]
Optigo Connect: Now for Every Building Project
Optigo Connect has long been a full-scale solution for large commercial buildings, from stadiums to high-rises and data centers. Now, we’re supporting all Operational Technology (OT) networks, both big and small, new and retrofit. Our latest release, Optigo Connect HybridTM, is available for copper, single-mode fiber, multi-mode fiber, and mixed cabling networks, making Optigo Connect […]
Diving into Transport and Application Layers
The worlds of IT and Operational Technology (OT) are merging more and more these days as the Internet of Things grows in prominence. This collaboration between IT and OT is great, but there are still gaps in understanding that keep these worlds from fully working together. To help, we teamed up with Distech Controls to […]
An Aussie project to improve energy efficiency
Delta Building Automation (Australia) had a big job renovating the Australian Bureau of Statistics HQ (ABS) a while back. The building owner wanted to improve the building’s energy use and increase their National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) score to more than 4.5 stars, out of a possible total of six. The land down […]
New Visual BACnet Site Manager is launched
We announced a while back that our developers were hard at work on a big new update: the Visual BACnet Site Manager. This intuitive new platform gives insight into a building network’s health at the site, area, and monitoring node levels. No matter the network’s size or complexity, you can understand the overall network condition, […]
A cybersecurity framework for the world of BAS
It’s been five years since the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its cybersecurity framework. A great deal has changed in technology over those years, but the framework remains absolutely critical in our world of growing connectivity. And yet, I still hear confusion in the building automation world about what this framework means […]
