The A1 Controller
Industrial Telemetry
Appliance for Datacenters
One appliance. Every subsystem. Complete visibility.
The A1 Controller is a purpose-built 0U appliance deployed on-site at each datacenter. It can be mounted inside or outside a rack, giving you deployment flexibility. It connects your BMS, PMS, battery, and fire systems, then pushes normalized telemetry data to the POD View cloud platform — with tag mapping, hyperscale ingestion, and EU Energy Efficiency Directive compliance built in.
0U
Flexible Mounting
Inside or outside rack
6+
Protocols Supported
BACnet, Modbus, SNMP, OPC-UA & more
<5s
Data Latency
Edge-to-cloud telemetry pipeline
100%
EED Compliant
EU Energy Efficiency Directive ready
What Is the A1 Controller?
The A1 Controller is PODTECH's industrial-grade telemetry appliance, deployed on-site at each datacenter facility. It sits at the edge of your infrastructure, ingesting data from every building subsystem — BMS, PMS, battery banks, fire suppression, HVAC — normalizes it through tag mapping, then securely pushes the unified data stream to the POD View cloud platform for visualization, analytics, and compliance reporting.
Multi-Protocol Ingestion
Connects to BACnet, Modbus TCP/RTU, SNMP v2c/v3, OPC-UA, MQTT, and REST APIs — all from a single appliance.
Intelligent Tag Mapping
Automatically maps and normalises disparate sensor tags into a unified namespace, eliminating data silos.
Hyperscale Ingestion
Built for high-throughput environments. Handles thousands of data points per second with sub-5-second latency.
Secure Gateway
Encrypted edge-to-cloud communication with certificate-based authentication. Zero-trust architecture.
EED Compliance
Built-in EU Energy Efficiency Directive compliance — automated PUE calculation, energy reporting, and audit trails.
POD View Cloud Integration
Pushes normalized telemetry to POD View cloud platform for visualization and analytics. Additional integrations available for Snowflake, BigQuery, Azure, and AWS.
Architecture Overview
On-site A1 Controller appliance connects to building subsystems, performs tag mapping, then pushes normalized data to POD View cloud platform — a complete edge-to-cloud telemetry pipeline.
Technical Specifications
Enterprise-grade hardware with industrial protocol support and cloud-native integrations.
Supported Protocols
Cloud Platform Integration
A1 Controller pushes data to POD View cloud platform by default. Additional integrations available for enterprise workflows:
Security
Deployment Options
Flexible deployment to suit your infrastructure — from a dedicated physical appliance to virtualised environments.
Physical Appliance
Purpose-built 0U appliance. Pre-configured, hardened Linux operating system with IPMI out-of-band management. Mounts inside or outside rack. Plug in, connect, and start ingesting.
Virtual Machine
Deploy on existing virtualisation infrastructure. VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM compatible. Ideal for environments with existing compute capacity.
Container
Kubernetes-native deployment with Helm charts. Perfect for cloud-native infrastructure teams and multi-site orchestration.
Built for Every Datacenter
Hyperscale
High-throughput telemetry for hyperscale campuses. Kafka streaming, multi-site aggregation, and petabyte-scale data pipelines.
Colocation
Unified monitoring across tenant spaces. Per-client metering, shared infrastructure visibility, and SLA compliance reporting.
Enterprise Edge
Lightweight deployment for enterprise edge sites. Remote management, low-bandwidth optimisation, and centralised analytics.
Enterprise-Grade Security
The A1 Controller is designed for deployment in secure, mission-critical environments. All data transmission is encrypted and authenticated to meet enterprise security standards.
TLS 1.3 Encrypted Transport
All cloud-bound data encrypted in transit with modern cipher suites
Certificate-Based Authentication
Mutual TLS authentication between appliance and cloud endpoints
Network Isolation
Air-gapped from production networks with firewall-friendly outbound-only connections
Secure Boot & Updates
Signed firmware with verified boot chain and encrypted OTA updates
No Persistent Storage of Credentials
BMS/PMS credentials stored encrypted in hardware security module (HSM)
Compliance & Standards
Penetration Tested
Third-party security audits conducted annually
Ready to See the A1 Controller in Action?
Book a demo and see how the A1 Controller can unify your datacenter telemetry — from subsystem to cloud.