Western Ascent Inc · since 2004 · Fort Collins, Colorado
Hard sites. Software, data, and field ops the operation can run on.
We're Western Ascent Inc, a software, data, and field-operations company in Fort Collins, Colorado, founded in 2004. We build software and dashboards, connect and secure remote sites, and get data off remote equipment and into the systems that utility, renewable, energy, mining, and rural infrastructure operators already run, across the northern US and beyond.
Go anywhere. Get the data. Make it valuable.
From the founder · John Daharsh
- Writing code since the '70s
- 16+ years leading software in utility-scale solar
- Global IT director and global cybersecurity director roles
- 200 million+ data points collected daily, for more than a decade
- Led the teams that brought 2 GW+ of utility-scale PV power electronics onto telemetry and control systems, central and remote
- NERC CIP experience · air-gapped and high-trust work
- 01Go anywhere
- 02Connect the site
- 03Get the data
- 04Make it valuable
- 05Run it on your stack
- 01SCADA integration for telemetry and command and control
web apps and portals
embedded and firmware - 02Historians and pipelines
dashboards and visualization
ML for detection and forecasting - 03
AI-forward operations.
Agentic systems that take the daily grind off your team, on hardware you control when the site requires it.
→ Data & AIAgentic workflows
local and air-gapped models
automated reporting - 04
Connected and secure sites.
Remote wireless, Starlink backhaul, and IT and cybersecurity for sites the network forgot and sites the security team watches closely.
→ Connected sitesBackhaul design and setup
field comms
high-trust IT - 05
Field data and control.
Telemetry off remote equipment and sites, and command and control back to it, integrated with the systems you already run.
→ Field dataTelemetry and data acquisition at the edge
command and control with SCADA integration
data into your SCADA, historian, or dashboard
Field data
Get the data off the equipment and into your systems.
- Field equipment
- Edge device
- Link: Starlink or wireless
- Your systems: SCADA · historian
- Dashboard
Field data acquisition
- Source
- Field equipment
- Link
- Starlink or wireless
- Lands in
- SCADA, historian, dashboard
- Control
- Back to the equipment, via SCADA
Layout only · no client data
Data and dashboards
Operations at a glance
- Data in
- By source and by day
- Sources
- Which devices are reporting
- Freshness
- Time since the last write
Into the historian
2 · Write to the historian
3 · Refresh the dashboard
- Lands in
- Your historian and dashboard
Layout only · no client data
Connected and secure sites
Backhaul
- Radio link
- Remote wireless from the field
- Starlink backhaul
- Satellite link where there's no wire
- Telemetry data path
- From the edge to your systems
High-trust
- Handling
- Air-gapped when required
- Experience
- NERC CIP environments
Starlink or wireless backhaul, air-gapped handling, NERC CIP experience.
Who it's for
- Utility and grid
- Renewables
- Oil and gas
- Mining
- Ranch, ditch, and municipal
- Ops teams whose software is falling behind
