Beyond automation: buildings that know what's happening.
Buildings have been automated for decades. Controllers follow fixed rules, alarms get lost in inboxes, and how a building really works stays in a few people's heads. CRUCIBLE makes the tools that turn raw data, alarms and know-how into building intelligence, for the controls contractors who look after those buildings.
A crucible turns raw material into something stronger.
Each CRUCIBLE product gives a building one more thing it can do on its own. Every one stands alone and is licensed on its own, so a contractor can start with the one the building needs.
Someone answers
A critical point fails at 2 a.m., and a person on call knows within minutes and replies to take it.
It remembers
Trends, alarms and who answered them are kept and turned into plain reports.
It knows what's wrong
Fault checks built to run on the controllers themselves, with a card that shows what's wrong and the steps to find it.
Programmed and drawn from one record
Controller programs and graphics made from the points list, checked before they go in.
Five products, one family.
Spark works with any brand of BACnet controls. TOUCHSTONE, SMITHY, ETCH and IMPRINT start with Reliable Controls systems.
On a bench unit · pilots being planned
A standalone BACnet alarm appliance. It watches the points that matter and texts the people on call until one of them replies ACK.
About Spark ›
In development · tested in software
Fault-detection cards for Reliable Controls equipment: checks that run on the controller, with a card that shows what's wrong and what to do.
About TOUCHSTONE ›
In development · tested in software
Control-BASIC programs from a points list (Cast), and a check of existing programs with the fixes listed (Repair).
About SMITHY ›
In development · tested in software
RC-Studio animated graphics made from a points list: equipment that moves with the real values, alarms that show where they are.
About ETCH ›
In development · tested on simulated data
The building's memory: trends and alarm records kept for years, and daily and weekly reports in plain words.
About IMPRINT ›
The platform
Where dealer teams work: jobs, people and roles, and the lead's sign-off on every deliverable before it goes out.
About GUILDHALL ›
GUILDHALL: where the work is checked before it goes out.
The smiths' guild hall kept its members, their ranks and their makers' marks. GUILDHALL keeps a dealer's team, each person's role, and the lead's sign-off that vouches for the work. SMITHY and TOUCHSTONE jobs run on it, and nothing is delivered until a lead has signed it off.
- Each dealer's jobs and files stay with that dealer
- Roles for owners, leads, programmers and viewers
- A lead's sign-off on every deliverable, kept with the job
Sold through controls contractors.
CRUCIBLE doesn't go around the contractor. Contractors install, brand and service every product, so the building knows who looks after it.
- Spark's alarm path uses no AI and no internet to watch the controllers
- CRUCIBLE never writes to a controller: programs and cards are delivered as packages that a person checks and loads
- Measured, tested claims: what a product does today is what this site says it does
Working with controls contractors on the first installations.
If you look after buildings with BACnet or Reliable Controls systems, we'd like to hear from you.