How To Handshake: The OT Networking Series
Jul 30, 2026 · 43 min · 13 segments
Computing at the edge isn't a new concept, but it's probably not one facility managers and SIs have grappled with... yet. Ping and Ryan are joined this week by Andrew Rodgers, Co-Founder at ACE IoT…
Aaron BrondumGuest
Ryan LaFlammeHost
Ping YaoHost
I wanted to ask about things that our facilities folks are probably a little bit more familiar with, which is some of the hardware that's on site that you just can't get around.
The idea of, you know, the controllers that run HVAC or lighting, access control.
Some of these things are built, as we know, they were built more for longevity than high performance.
How can the idea of edge processing help? And what is the reality given that hardware or those hardware limitations? Can it help? Or will it be bottlenecked by some of these devices and this hardware?
Yeah, it's a reality we live in, right? We made major capital investments 10 years ago into a building management system, right? And now I want to do this modern stuff.
And so the reality is how do you supplement that and do that in a smart way, in a secure way, right? And so one of the approaches we take at Neve is we secure...
and basically put a moat around that older technology and provide a way to secure it today, then be able to enable edge applications to run to then potentially optimize it the best it can with what it can do, right? Sometimes you're limited to polling rates and how often you can see, make an adjustments to set points and things like that.
There are things out there that are cost-effective ways to secure what they have, provide a framework in the plumbing to be able to leverage some of these modern applications.
We have platform clients who build products on top of our product that do advanced system optimization on these legacy networks.
And part of the reason why you might want an edge environment for that is that if you're going to implement something like demand control ventilation, and you aren't going to do that capital rip and replace to build that into the underlying control system because it's not feasible, then you don't want that dependent on an internet connection.
You don't want all of a sudden, as soon as your network has a hiccup, or you don't want your whole building to suddenly go back to the energy performance of 1984.
So that's one of the justifications that we see for the edge is that people want things like advanced scheduling management.
They can implement that in an overlay or advanced system optimization layer at the edge.
I wanted to ask about things that our facilities folks are probably a little bit more familiar with, which is some of the hardware that's on site that you just can't get around.
The idea of, you know, the controllers that run HVAC or lighting, access control.
Some of these things are built, as we know, they were built more for longevity than high performance.
How can the idea of edge processing help? And what is the reality given that hardware or those hardware limitations? Can it help? Or will it be bottlenecked by some of these devices and this hardware?
Yeah, it's a reality we live in, right? We made major capital investments 10 years ago into a building management system, right? And now I want to do this modern stuff.
And so the reality is how do you supplement that and do that in a smart way, in a secure way, right? And so one of the approaches we take at Neve is we secure...
and basically put a moat around that older technology and provide a way to secure it today, then be able to enable edge applications to run to then potentially optimize it the best it can with what it can do, right? Sometimes you're limited to polling rates and how often you can see, make an adjustments to set points and things like that.
There are things out there that are cost-effective ways to secure what they have, provide a framework in the plumbing to be able to leverage some of these modern applications.
We have platform clients who build products on top of our product that do advanced system optimization on these legacy networks.
And part of the reason why you might want an edge environment for that is that if you're going to implement something like demand control ventilation, and you aren't going to do that capital rip and replace to build that into the underlying control system because it's not feasible, then you don't want that dependent on an internet connection.
You don't want all of a sudden, as soon as your network has a hiccup, or you don't want your whole building to suddenly go back to the energy performance of 1984.
So that's one of the justifications that we see for the edge is that people want things like advanced scheduling management.
They can implement that in an overlay or advanced system optimization layer at the edge.
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