Author
Catalin Negru
Founder & CEO, ControlCom Technologies
Catalin Negru is the founder and CEO of ControlCom Technologies, the company behind ControlCom Connect. He works across the platform, from HMI templates and internal tooling to the commercial and operational side of the business, and writes about real-world facility monitoring, energy management, and the practical side of running an industrial IoT platform.
Industrial IoTEnergy managementFacility monitoringCloud SCADA
Posts by Catalin Negru
Catalin Negru•Jun 15, 2026
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.
Catalin Negru•Jan 15, 2026
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.
Catalin Negru•Mar 3, 2025
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.
Catalin Negru•Dec 12, 2024
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.