For many industrial facilities, off-site or remote access to data collected by a SCADA system constitutes an unacceptable cybersecurity risk. At the same time, a limited ability to access real-time operations data can create inefficiencies and hinder collaboration. Through a new partnership between EMR Associates and ACE IoT Solutions, utilities and industrial organizations – including the municipal water utility in Portland, TN – are using ACE IoT’s gateways and cloud services to enable secure remote access to SCADA system data.

Several ACE IoT customers are deploying Eclipse VOLTTRON alongside existing energy data tools and software platforms. In this post, we highlight examples of the value of Eclipse VOLTTRON to organizations using SkySpark, Niagara and Energy Star Portfolio Manager.

Responding to the COVID-19 epidemic and dangerous air quality due to seasonal summer forest fires, an increasing number of organizations are deploying networks of indoor air quality (IAQ) sensors in their buildings. For most organizations, the deployment of IAQ sensors involves three primary challenges: 1) an assessment of air flow in their building(s), 2) a decision about how best to collect IAQ data (via wired or wireless networks, e.g) and 3) the development of a plan to incorporate the new IAQ data into their existing procedures and processes related to facilities management. Several forward-looking organizations are examining how the open-source Eclipse VOLTTRON technology can enable their organization to integrate new IAQ data with data collected by existing systems in their buildings (e.g., Building Automation Systems).