Radix IoT

08/27/2026

The risks in energy operations haven't changed much over the years. They just keep showing up in new forms: aging infrastructure, distributed assets, and data that never makes it anywhere central.

What's changed is how much of that risk is now actually manageable. Real-time visibility across a distributed energy portfolio used to be a genuinely hard technical problem. It's a solvable one now, if the underlying data can actually get unified across sites and protocols. The organizations managing energy risk well right now aren't the ones with the newest equipment. They're the ones who've closed the visibility gap on what they already have.

What's the risk that's kept your team up the longest, and has anything actually changed about it?

https://radixiot.com/resources/energy-evolving-landscape-top-challenges-and-opportunities/

08/26/2026

Grays Harbor Water District needed to get off an aging Windows environment that had become a genuine operational liability for their SCADA setup. The move wasn't about chasing new features, it was about needing something that actually worked reliably day to day.

They moved to Mango by Radix IoT running on Linux, and the deciding factor wasn't a feature checklist. It was ease of use and the kind of customer service that actually responds when something needs attention. Sometimes the most important thing a platform can do is just work, consistently, without becoming its own maintenance project. Not every infrastructure decision needs to be dramatic. Sometimes reliability and responsive support are the whole differentiator.

For teams still managing legacy Windows-based SCADA environments, what's holding the migration back?

https://radixiot.com/resources/a-water-management-district-chose-mango-for-ease-of-use-and-customer-service/

08/25/2026

We'll be at AEE World in Orlando this September, and we're starting the conversation early this month.

If your team is managing energy efficiency, distributed assets, or portfolio-wide sustainability reporting, this is exactly the kind of event where those conversations happen best in person. We'll be talking through how unified monitoring supports ESG reporting, energy efficiency benchmarking, and the operational side of managing energy across a multi-site portfolio. More details on where to find us coming as the show gets closer.

For now, if energy efficiency and sustainability reporting are on your radar for planning conversations, let's connect before the show. What's the biggest energy efficiency or ESG reporting challenge on your plate heading into Q4?

https://radixiot.com/customers/energy / https://aeeworld.org/

Join the discussion of energy efficiency and sustainability at the Association of Energy Engineer's AEE World Conference.

08/21/2026

Every protocol driver, every dashboard, every integration that makes Mango by Radix IoT work across 25+ data source types was built by an actual team of engineers and protocol specialists, not a black box.
That team is the part of the platform most people never see. The engineers who know why a particular BACnet implementation behaves differently across manufacturers, or what actually changes when a facility adds a new Modbus device to an existing network. That depth is what turns a protocol list into something that actually works in the field.
We don't talk about this side of the company often enough. The platform is only as good as the people who understand the systems it connects to, and that's worth recognizing directly.
If you've worked with our team on an integration, what's stood out to you?
https://radixiot.com/company/about

08/21/2026

A microgrid only delivers on its resilience promise if the operator can actually see what's happening across solar, battery storage, and the grid connection at the same time. Otherwise it's just three separate systems that happen to be wired together.

Real resilience in a microgrid setup depends on knowing, in real time, when to draw from storage, when to island from the grid, and when a component is degrading before it fails during the exact event the microgrid was built to handle.

That visibility is the actual differentiator, not the hardware itself. Battery storage and microgrid deployments are growing fast. The monitoring layer underneath them is what determines whether that resilience shows up when it's actually needed, or only on paper.

For teams running microgrid or battery storage projects, is monitoring keeping pace with the hardware rollout?

https://radixiot.com/resources/how-microgrids-and-battery-storage-redefine-energy-resilience/

08/19/2026

New issue of our newsletter is live! This one's about a gap most healthcare facilities carry into survey season — fragmented systems producing fragmented records instead of one continuous one. We dig into HVAC, medical gas, refrigeration, and water systems, and what changes when it's all connected.

Also, we'll be at AEE World in Orlando, September 16–18, Booth 308 — come find us. Take a look and let us know what resonates.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/monitoring-gap-most-healthcare-facilities-dont-find-until-survey-oelac

08/19/2026

Every engineering firm eventually hits the build vs. buy question on a monitoring project: build a custom integration layer in-house, or spec a platform that already does it.

Building custom looks appealing on a single project. It also means the client owns a piece of custom software indefinitely, one that needs maintenance, updates, and institutional knowledge that has to outlast whoever built it. A platform built for this problem already handles that maintenance burden, and doesn't lock the client into one vendor's hardware roadmap to keep working.

The real comparison isn't cost on day one, it's who owns the maintenance risk five years out, and how tied the client is to their own initial engineering decision.

For firms speccing monitoring platforms into new projects, how much weight does long-term maintenance ownership get in that decision right now?

https://radixiot.com/resources/build-vs-buy-solving-the-problem-of-unifying-data-across-systems/

08/18/2026

A truck roll to a remote tower site isn't just a technician's afternoon. It's fuel, vehicle wear, a scheduling gap, and often a problem that turns out to be solvable without anyone physically driving there.

The pattern behind most unnecessary truck rolls is the same: an alert fires, nobody has enough context to diagnose it remotely, so a technician gets dispatched to go look. Reduce that pattern and the truck roll count drops on its own.

It comes down to two things: alarm management that actually prioritizes what matters instead of flooding a NOC with noise, and remote diagnostic visibility good enough to solve half of what used to require a drive.

Alarm fatigue and unnecessary truck rolls aren't separate problems for most telecom operators. They're the same problem showing up in two different budget lines.

Where's the biggest source of truck rolls in your operation right now; hardware faults, or just not being able to tell from the office?

https://radixiot.com/resources/how-to-cut-down-on-truck-rolls/

08/17/2026

Good two days at RE+ Mid-Atlantic! One theme came up again and again on the floor: multi-site visibility, and how much of a heavy lift it still is for a lot of operators, mostly because of real technical limits in the systems already in use.

Great conversations, and a good reminder we're focused on the right problem.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth.

08/14/2026

Solar PV performance data usually lives in whatever monitoring tool came bundled with the inverter.

That's fine until a portfolio has panels from three different manufacturers across a dozen sites, each with its own dashboard, and nobody has one number for the whole fleet.

Real-time monitoring changes what's possible here, not because it adds more data, but because it puts underperformance somewhere visible before it shows up in a quarterly report. A string that's degrading, an inverter running below expected output, a site trending down for weeks without anyone noticing.

For engineering teams speccing solar monitoring into a project, the requirement worth asking about isn't which inverter brand's software is best. It's whether the platform can sit above all of them at once.

What does portfolio-wide solar visibility look like for your team right now?

https://radixiot.com/resources/boost-the-efficiency-of-your-solar-pv-operations-with-iot-platforms/