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Bringing a legacy SCADA system to the edge

Posted by Janice Colmer on Jun 3, 2026 6:41:24 AM

Watch the next episode in the Who's groovin video series and see how to build secure, resilient, and scalable SCADA systems.

Would you trust a SCADA system that takes five minutes just to confirm that a pump turned on? At the Genesee County Drain Commissioner’s Division of Water and Waste Services in Michigan, they didn’t have much choice.

In this edition of the Who’s groovin video series, see how Genesee County replaced slow radio polling with edge-based MQTT Sparkplug communications—giving their operators a real-time view of what’s happening at all of their 180 sites.

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Topics: Case studies, Videos, Water & wastewater, MQTT, groov EPIC, SCADA, Who's groovin

Keeping data centers cool with groov

Posted by Janice Colmer on May 20, 2026 9:42:51 AM

The Who's groovin video series continues with episode 6 and a liquid cooling strategy that can handle data center demand.

How do you keep a data center cool when the servers inside generate far more heat than traditional cooling systems can handle? Then consider AI workloads being added to the mix and creating new challenges.

That’s when Nautilus Data Technologies knew they had to leverage a stand-out strategy: liquid cooling.

Who’s groovin episode 6 shows you how they turned years of real operating experience into a new OEM opportunity. Watch:

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Topics: Case studies, Videos, OEM, groov EPIC, data center, Who's groovin

See why solar plants are groovin'

Posted by Janice Colmer on Apr 8, 2026 7:19:21 AM

The Who's groovin' video series continues with a look at how to create data visualization from isolated plant operations across thousands of miles.

How do you manage dozens of solar plants built by different teams, spread across thousands of miles, and still keep power flowing every day?

For CVE Chile, that was the challenge. Each site ran its own controls with no shared way to track performance or to identify problems.

In episode 5 of the Who's groovin video series, we'll show you how CVE found a way to bring visibility and reliability to solar power plants across the vast terrain in Chile.

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Topics: Case studies, Videos, OEM, groov EPIC, Who's groovin

Who's groovin with EPIC?

Posted by Janice Colmer on Apr 2, 2026 7:41:46 AM

See how ALTA Refrigeration went from a custom engineering house to a scalable industrial OEM in episode 4 of the Who's groovin video series.

Have you watched the new video series Who's groovin yet? Each video highlights a real customer application and the system that was built to fix a real problem.

Here's your chance to watch episode 4 featuring ALTA Refrigeration.

See how they were able to scale a nationwide fleet of industrial equipment without growing their service team.

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Topics: Case studies, Videos, OEM, groov EPIC, Who's groovin

Three real projects you can learn from

Posted by Dan White on Jan 28, 2026 7:34:56 AM

New Who's groovin' video series lets you preview a variety of industrial application challenges and solutions.

When you’re working through a control or monitoring problem, it helps to see how someone else already solved something similar.

That's the idea behind a new short video series called Who's groovin'.

Get a sneak peek.

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Topics: Case studies, Videos, groov EPIC, groov RIO, Who's groovin

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Bringing a legacy SCADA system to the edge

Watch the next episode in the Who's groovin video series and see how to build secure, resilient, and scalable SCADA systems.

Keeping data centers cool with groov

The Who's groovin video series continues with episode 6 and a liquid cooling strategy that can handle data center demand.

See why solar plants are groovin'

The Who's groovin' video series continues with a look at how to create data visualization from isolated plant operations across thousands of miles.

Who's groovin with EPIC?

See how ALTA Refrigeration went from a custom engineering house to a scalable industrial OEM in episode 4 of the Who's groovin video series.

Three real projects you can learn from

New Who's groovin' video series lets you preview a variety of industrial application challenges and solutions.

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