From Site HMI to Cloud: Using Ignition for Real-Time RNG Operations / Ep 041

Live from Ignition Community Conference 2025 in Sacramento, the Energy Tech Podcast sits down with Bryan Fosmark, IT & Automation Director at Sagepoint Energy, to explore how they’re transforming renewable natural gas (RNG) operations with Ignition 8.3, cloud deployment, and seamless IT/OT convergence.

Brian shares how Sagepoint leverages centralized Ignition servers, Perspective projects for mobile and desktop, and API-driven analytics to optimize environmental, compliance, and financial performance across landfill-gas and dairy-farm RNG sites.

We also dive into:

- How Ignition enables real-time visibility across rural RNG facilities

- The role of store-and-forward and MQTT in unreliable-network environments

- Managing mergers & acquisitions with plug-and-play SCADA integration

- Balancing operations vs IT priorities and building cross-functional teams

- The path to deploying AI and MCP (Model Context Protocol) within energy infrastructure

- Cost, complexity, and cybersecurity advantages of Ignition

📍 Recorded live at ICC 2025 (Sacramento, CA)

0:00 – Intro: Live from ICC 2025 in Sacramento

0:28 – Meet Bryan Fosmark & Sagepoint Energy

1:00 – ICC 2025 atmosphere & Ignition 8.3 “Level Up”

2:00 – What Sagepoint Energy does: Landfill & RNG projects

3:20 – How Ignition drives real-time operations and compliance

4:40 – Deploying Ignition in the cloud with enterprise integration

6:10 – Designing for mobility and multi-device Perspective apps

7:00 – Bridging IT and OT for true convergence

8:30 – Containerized development & real-time operator feedback

9:20 – Scaling Ignition through M&A and multi-SCADA integration

10:30 – Land and expand: How Ignition enables rapid site visibility

11:20 – Connectivity challenges and store-and-forward success

12:00 – Using MQTT for rural and low-bandwidth operations

12:40 – Balancing technology and operations through relationships

13:30 – Future outlook: AI, MCP, and next-gen automation

15:00 – Private-equity agility & entrepreneurial development

16:00 – Cost, complexity & cybersecurity advantages of Ignition

18:00 – Takeaways & developer collaboration goals at ICC 2025

20:00 – Closing thoughts from Mike Flores & Bryan Fosmark

Uygar Duzgun “Fast Life” courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com