Industrial IoT insights and field notes
Practical guides, case studies, and product thinking on monitoring, SCADA, energy management, and multi-site operations from the team building ControlCom Connect.
What Is Cloud SCADA? A Practical Guide for 2026
Cloud SCADA moves supervisory control and data acquisition off the local server and into a hosted platform. Here is how it works, where it fits, and how it differs from traditional SCADA.
Hospital Delivers Instant Energy Study, Saves $30K
How continuous energy monitoring let a hospital provide an engineering firm with a complete energy study on-the-spot, saving months and up to $30K.
ControlCom Connect Successfully Navigates Major AWS Outage
How ControlCom Connect's resilient edge architecture maintained zero data loss during a 15-hour AWS outage via automatic failover and recovery.
Integrating Node-RED With ControlCom Connect
Wiring Node-RED into ControlCom Connect over MQTT-TLS — client IDs, cert formats, payload shape, and gotchas from real customer gateways.
Healthcare Facility Saves $160K With Utility Monitoring
A case study on how real-time data monitoring helped a major healthcare provider identify and correct significant utility billing errors.
The Future of SCADA Systems in the Age of IoT
How traditional SCADA systems are evolving with IoT — cloud-native architectures, edge data collection, and the shift from on-prem HMI to multi-site fleets.