Converging operational technology with the enterprise network across manufacturing, utility, public works and building estates.
At Georgia-Pacific this meant process control and SCADA networks alongside building and facility systems — HVAC, access control and video — at a point when plant networks and business networks were still widely assumed to be separate problems belonging to separate departments. Bridging them raises questions of segmentation, availability and who owns a change window that the industry only later gave names to.
Manufacturing OT tends to fail quietly rather than dramatically: every system works, and none of them can answer a question that spans two of them.
Subtopics
- Building Automation & Physical SecurityHVAC, access control, video and fire panels converged with the enterprise estate — and a PoE lighting question most pilots never ask.
- Energy Management SystemsReal-time telemetry from generating plants in China and Australia back to a monitoring centre in Florida.
- Manufacturing Line IntegrationMachine-level visibility across legacy production islands on a medical device manufacturing floor.
- SCADA & Utility Control SystemsWater treatment and wastewater control across a utility estate, with redundant control sites — where the stakes are physical rather than informational.
Applied in
- Building Automation and PoE Lighting Feasibility PilotWhether a building could move to PoE lighting without stranding the legacy lighting already installed.
- Union-Rome Water Treatment Plant Inspection and System DesignPlant inspection and system design at a water treatment facility.
- Vistakon Manufacturing Line IT/OT IntegrationLegacy production systems on a medical device manufacturing floor brought into one interconnected environment.
- Medical Examiner's Office Enterprise IntegrationNine subsystems federated through one bus across three sites, with the integration layer itself made redundant.
- Solid Waste Systems ModernisationLegacy route, fleet and scalehouse systems replaced and integrated to cloud, sequenced around an operation with no slow season.
- Ed Austin State Attorney's OfficeNetwork infrastructure, VoIP telephony and building automation for the State Attorney's building.
- Duval County Substation NetworkEvery electrical substation in the county connected for centralised management and monitoring.
- GE International Power Generation Monitoring NetworkReal-time plant telemetry from generating facilities in China and Australia back to a monitoring centre in Florida.
- Georgia-Pacific IT/OT ConvergenceProcess control and SCADA alongside HVAC, access control and video on the enterprise network — before the industry had words for it.
- Nissan and Georgia-Pacific Industrial WirelessPlant-floor, material handling, yard and warehouse coverage surveyed on site with the lines running.
- JEA Power Metering and Line Sag IdentificationMetering that located spans needing attention — from heavy loading or from vegetation grown into the clearance envelope.
- JEA Utility SCADA and Redundant Control SitesEstate-wide SCADA across every water treatment and wastewater facility, with two control sites so neither was single.
Through subtopics
5 further projects reference a subtopic of this entry rather than the entry itself.
- City Council Chamber AV and IT ArchitectureAudio, video, voting and broadcast systems for a chamber where proceedings are a public record — owned for twenty years.
- Gunshot Detection and Active-Shooter Tracking Feasibility PilotShotSpotter acoustic detection tied to Bosch camera estates and Genetec video management, tested against a seconds-not-minutes requirement.
- West Virginia Water Treatment UAV SurveyAerial survey, analysis and communications design for water treatment infrastructure.
- Kerzner International Resort PMS IntegrationGuest internet and marina shore power authenticated, metered and posted to a room account across resort properties.
- Water Treatment Facilities WAN/LANWAN and LAN design for water treatment facilities, with PIX firewall and web monitoring.