Thermal Risk Intelligence — Canada

Stop electrical fires before there's smoke.

OctosX provides continuous, contact-based thermal monitoring of electrical panels, MCCs, and busbars — detecting hotspots hours before they ignite. Proven across 10+ years of Taiwanese factory deployments, now serving Canadian manufacturers.

Why Thermal Risk Matters

Four reasons to monitor thermal — today.

Electrical fires don't start with smoke. They start with a loose connection, a corroded busbar, or an overloaded breaker that's been quietly running hot for weeks. The cost of catching it late is rarely just the fire itself.

Prevent Catastrophic Fire

Continuous, contact-based thermal sensors on switchgear, busbars, MCCs, and breakers detect hotspots at sub-degree precision — hours before ignition. Smoke detectors tell you a fire has started. We tell you it's about to.

Protect Your Insurance Profile

Brokers and insurers increasingly require demonstrable risk controls on electrical infrastructure. Continuous thermal monitoring becomes verifiable evidence of due diligence — and a lever in your next renewal conversation.

Align with NFPA 70B

NFPA 70B (now mandatory in the U.S.) calls for ongoing electrical maintenance with documented inspections. Continuous thermal monitoring exceeds annual thermography — and produces the audit trail your compliance team needs.

Extend Equipment Life

Sustained over-temperature shortens the life of insulation, contacts, and conductors. Catching thermal drift early protects expensive switchgear and busbar assets — and defers capital replacement cycles by years.

Architecture

From the busbar to the boardroom.

OctosX is a full-stack thermal risk intelligence platform — contact thermal sensors on your electrical infrastructure, edge-first data collection, encrypted transport, and dashboards built for both operators and insurers. Standard protocols throughout (Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT). Ready to extend as your risk surface grows.

Standard industrial protocols — no proprietary lock-in
Edge-first architecture — local caching survives network outages
Cloud on AWS Canada Central — your data stays in Canada
Deploys in days, not months — minimal disruption to production
Explore the Platform
FIELD LAYER Contact Thermal Sensors · Switchgear · Busbars · MCCs · Breakers EDGE LAYER Industrial PC (IPC) — Local Cache · MQTT Broker · AES-256 Encryption TRANSPORT TLS 1.3 · MQTT over secured tunnels · VPN optional CLOUD — AWS Canada Central Multi-tenant SaaS · 99.5% SLA · Canadian data residency Dashboards · Alerts · Analytics ERP · MES · BMS · ESG

The Solution

Thermal Risk Intelligence — purpose-built.

One product. One job. Continuous thermal monitoring of the electrical infrastructure that runs your plant.

Thermal Risk Intelligence

Contact thermal sensors on switchgear, busbars, MCCs, and breakers — feeding edge gateways, encrypted transport, and dashboards built for both operators and insurers. Detects hotspots hours before ignition. Proven across 10+ years of Taiwanese factory deployments.

OctosX is launching with Thermal Risk Intelligence as Phase 1. Additional risk-monitoring modules (equipment condition, energy, EHS) are on the roadmap and available to early customers as co-development engagements.

Differentiation

Why OctosX

Built for North American Manufacturing

Compliance-first design with SOC 2, GDPR, and PIPEDA from the foundation — not a retrofit. Data residency in Canada. Regional support based in BC. Standards your insurance carrier and legal team will recognize.

Heat-Source Detection, Not Smoke Detection

Smoke detectors tell you a fire has already started. OctosX detects the heat source — a loose busbar, an overloaded breaker — hours before there's smoke. Validated in Taiwan's factories for a decade. Now available for yours.

Channel-Friendly, SI-Ready

Built for system integrators to deploy and support. Open protocols (Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT), comprehensive technical documentation, and a tiered partner program with margin retention at every tier.

Partner programme

Industries Served

Built for the manufacturing floor, not the boardroom.

Automotive Electronics Plastics Food Processing Metalworking Chemical Furniture Machinery

The Cost of Inaction

What's at stake for your plant?

Before OctosX, these numbers were accepted as industry norms. They don't have to be.

$260K
Average cost of unplanned downtime per hour in manufacturing
Source: Aberdeen Group
$1.4M
Average loss from a single industrial electrical fire
Source: NFPA
80%+
Of electrical equipment failures show thermal warning signs before they occur
Source: IEEE / Infraspection thermography research

Case Study

Proof from the plant floor.

Our platform's heritage: a decade of deployments across Taiwanese manufacturing, now being brought to North American plants.

Industrial furniture manufacturing factory floor with equipment and machinery
Furniture Manufacturing · Taiwan

24/7 fire risk monitoring across an entire production floor — deployed in under two weeks.

A major furniture manufacturer with high fire-risk processes needed continuous thermal monitoring across all electrical infrastructure without interrupting production. OctosX deployed a complete solution using one IPC, 56 network nodes, and 118 thermal pass sensors.

1 IPC
Central edge device
56 Nodes
Network monitoring points
118 Sensors
Thermal pass sensors deployed
<14 Days
Deployment to live monitoring
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