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How Do Utilities Integrate Samsara With SAP? 7 Integration Essentials.
Tamazari’s lessons from connecting fleet telematics, SAP HR and utility operations Overview: Tamazari helped a major PNW utility modernize their fleet spanning more than 1,000 vehicles. Tamazari led a deployment that included an SAP HR integration that automatically synchronized driver information as employees joined, left, or changed roles. That implementation offers a useful blueprint for utilities considering how Samsara and SAP should work together. 1. Start With the Busi
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How To Modernize SCADA Systems Without Disrupting Operations
Tamazari Shares Practical Tips on What It Takes to Keep Critical Systems Running Critical Infrastructure Does Not Have a Pause Button SCADA modernization is often described as a technology upgrade. In reality, it is closer to performing surgery while the patient is awake, walking, and carrying millions of people through daily life. That is the pressure behind live-system modernization. Public sector infrastructure like Rail lines, water plants, substations, airports, and publ
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$418 Million Beluga-Healy Transmission Project Advances Alaska Grid Modernization
Alaska is set to receive hundreds of millions of dollars for a more resilient transmission system. Tamazari has seen firsthand what it takes to keep critical infrastructure working across the state’s extreme terrain. A major new transmission investment in Alaska offers a useful look at where grid modernization is heading—and what it takes to make critical infrastructure work in one of the most challenging operating environments in the country. The U.S. Department of Energy ha
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Water Utility SCADA Modernization: Connecting Plant Operations and Citywide Decision-Making
How Lynchburg used Ignition across 10 active projects supporting operations, maintenance, reporting and administration SUMMARY The City of Lynchburg Department of Water Resources needed more from its operational technology. Two aging SCADA systems were becoming difficult to maintain, connecting new equipment was challenging, and limited access to data and automation slowed everyday work. By adopting Ignition, the department improved plant visibility and control while extendin
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Solar SCADA Modernization: Bringing More than 30 Sites onto One Platform
How Tamazari used Ignition to unify Ecoplexus solar operations, improve performance visibility and reduce monitoring costs SUMMARY Managing a solar portfolio becomes harder when every site presents a different picture. Ecoplexus faced that challenge across more than 30 solar sites, where disconnected data acquisition systems limited visibility, customization and access to operational information. Ecoplexus consolidated its sites onto a single Ignition SCADA platform. The proj
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Five Steps Toward Safer, More Resilient Water Utilities
How Water Utilities Can Prepare SCADA for an Active Cyber Threat Overview: After attacks affected water systems across multiple states, the priority is no longer general cyber awareness. It's protecting control, maintaining safe operations, and recovering with confidence. Cyber Threats to Water Systems are Dramatically Increasing The cyber threat facing water utilities changed significantly in 2026. On April 7, the EPA, FBI, CISA, and NSA issued an urgent joint advisory warni
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From 1940s Drawings to Real-Time Transmission Visibility
How Tamazari Turned Legacy Records into Faster Decisions and Stronger Field Readiness SUMMARY A large Pacific Northwest utility brought Tamazari in to support a major Transmission GIS modernization initiative focused on one urgent goal: making transmission asset information easier to find, trust, and use. The work transformed decades of legacy transmission line drawings, some dating back to the 1940s, into a standardized digital foundation connected across SAP, Smallworld GIS
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Inside the Bitcoin Conference 2026: A Conversation with Tamazari's Director of Client Partnerships
Bitcoin 2026 Revealed a Bigger Infrastructure Story For years, Bitcoin has been framed through price, adoption, and belief. At Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas, another story came into focus—Bitcoin is becoming an infrastructure business. That was the biggest takeaway for Tamazari’s Director of Client Partnerships, Brandon Mueller, who attended the event to better understand where the industry is headed. Across the conference, conversations kept moving beyond crypto. The real center
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From Military SATCOM to Utility IT: How Tim "Boss" Bagwell Delivers Mission-Critical Infrastructure
A Q&A with Tim Bagwell, far left, Senior Solutions Consultant, Tamazari Q: Tim, before we get into the consulting work, take us back to the start. What was your role in the Air Force? A: I spent roughly 1998 to 2005 in the Air Force as a satellite communications technician. By the end I was a Staff Sergeant running a small team. The shorthand is "SATCOM," but the practical reality was setting up and maintaining the data links that let dispersed units talk to each other and to
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Why Innovative Transmission Tower Design Could Be the Key to Faster Grid Expansion
In the Race to Modernize the Grid, Perception is Becoming Part of Performance Why Transmission Tower Design is a Grid Modernization Issue The biggest barrier to building more transmission isn't always the steel, the permitting, or even the cost. Sometimes it's the moment a community looks up and decides the project doesn't belong there. That's the blind spot in a lot of grid planning. We talk about transmission as an engineering challenge, but in practice it's also a design c
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The “Plug-In Solar” Moment Is Here, and One Safety Standard Is About to Make It Mainstream
UL 3700 is the behind-the-scenes rulebook that turns balcony solar from a risky gray area into a scalable, utility-friendly product Why can you plug in a space heater, but not a solar panel? Balcony solar sounds like a simple “hang it, plug it in, save money” idea. The truth is more complex. This article uncovers why UL 3700 can turn plug-in solar from a clever hack into a trusted mass-market product. But first, here are a few key definitions that matter to understand what's
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AI Load Growth Has a Secret Upside: Free Heat for Homes
Finland and Sweden are treating thermal waste like a civic resource and it’s quietly rewriting the AI energy story The part of AI’s power demand most people never think about: Heat. When people argue about AI and the grid, the conversation usually stops at megawatts: How much load? How fast? Who pays for upgrades? Important questions, but incomplete. Here’s the missing piece: the electricity that goes into a data center doesn’t disappear. It ends up as heat. That’s why the “d
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