About OctosX
Factory safety monitoring for Canadian plants.
OctosX brings four areas of factory safety onto one platform: Thermal Risk, Air & Environment, Equipment Health and Visual Alerts. Thermal Risk builds on Thermalpas contact sensors, in service in Taiwanese plants for more than ten years.
Our story
From Taiwan's factory floors to Canada's manufacturing sector.
OctosX was founded in 2026 in Langley, British Columbia. Our founders spent the decade before that on industrial integration work across Taiwan's manufacturing sector, serving automotive, electronics and chemical manufacturers.
In Taiwan, Thermalpas contact sensors have been in service for more than ten years in power plants, fabs and transit systems — see the field deployments. Meanwhile, mid-market plants in BC and Alberta were still checking the same equipment with periodic thermal scans, and MCC overheating went unnoticed between rounds.
We established OctosX to bring that sensor to Canadian plants, paired with the OctosX Platform, designed to store and process data in Canada, and support based in British Columbia.
Heat in a closed panel is not the only thing that goes unseen between rounds. OctosX is now organized around four areas of factory safety; the field record on this site comes from the first of them, Thermal Risk.
Factory Safety
Four areas, one platform.
Each area has its own page. All four share one platform, one alert path and one record. How each one connects to your site is scoped per project.
- Thermal RiskHeat inside closed electrical panelsExplore Thermal Risk
- Air & EnvironmentIndoor air, outdoor weather, gas detectionExplore Air & Environment
- Equipment HealthPressure, flow, leaks, power, vibrationExplore Equipment Health
- Visual AlertsReadings and alerts on LED displaysExplore Visual Alerts
Thermal Risk · From the field
Thermalpas field deployments in Taiwan.
At a glance
Company facts.
- Headquarters
- Langley, British Columbia, Canada
- Founded
- 2026
- Sensor heritage
- Thermalpas: 10+ years in Taiwanese plants
- Business model
- B2B SaaS — direct and through channel partners
- Geography
- Canada-first (BC, Alberta, Ontario)
- Areas
- Thermal Risk, Air & Environment, Equipment Health, Visual Alerts
- Data residency
- Designed to store and process data in Canada (AWS ca-central-1)
Principles
How we build.
- 01
Start from real failures
Our thermal detection logic traces back to real factory failures. The rules were written in response to an MCC fire, and baselines were calibrated on real equipment under real loads.
- 02
Ship what plants use
If a feature does not reduce a specific risk for a plant, it does not ship. Plant managers judge us on what changes on the floor.
- 03
Privacy and security from day one
We chose AWS Canada Central before we wrote the first line of cloud code, and designed the platform to store and process data in Canada.
Team
Built by people who have been on the plant floor.
Backgrounds in industrial automation, IoT platform engineering, enterprise security and Canadian manufacturing operations.
Industrial IoT · 12 years
Founder & CEO
Led platform architecture and deployment operations across 40+ Taiwanese manufacturing sites. Langley, BC.
Platform Engineering · 10 years
Co-Founder & CTO
Designed the edge-to-cloud data architecture. Former industrial software engineer, semiconductor & electronics manufacturing.
Industrial Sales · 15 years
VP Sales & Partnerships
Built channel programs for industrial software vendors across Western Canada. Focused on SI partner enablement.
Manufacturing Operations · 8 years
Head of Customer Success
Former plant operations manager. Brings the plant floor perspective to onboarding, training, and deployment success.
- Security
- SOC 2 Type 1 in progress, GDPR-aligned
- Privacy
- PIPEDA-Aligned
- AES-256
- At-rest encryption
- TLS 1.3
- In-transit encryption
Careers
We're hiring in BC.
We are building a small team in British Columbia. Roles are opening in field engineering (sensor installation and commissioning), technical support and industrial sales.
We want people who have been on a plant floor, understand why manufacturers are careful with change, and can explain an alert to a maintenance supervisor and a board member in the same week.
See it on your own equipment.
Tell us about your plant. We will tell you where OctosX fits, and where it does not.