Western Ascent Inc · since 2004 · Fort Collins, Colorado

Hard sites. Software, data, and field ops the operation can run on.

Western Ascent Inc is a software, data, and field-operations company in Fort Collins, Colorado, founded in 2004. It builds software and dashboards, connects and secures remote sites, and gets 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.

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Go anywhere. Get the data. Make it valuable.

Over a quarter century writing software
15+ years leading software engineering for utility-scale solar
Led global IT and cybersecurity
200 million+ data points a day, kept flowing for over 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

01
Software and web.
Custom software, integrations, and AI-forward websites, backed by over a quarter century of writing code.
→ Software
SCADA and system integration
web apps and portals
embedded and firmware
02
Data, analytics, and ML.
Pipelines and dashboards for data that never stops coming.
→ Data & AI
Historians 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 & AI
Agentic 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 sites
Backhaul design and setup
field comms
high-trust IT
05
Field data acquisition.
Telemetry and data off remote equipment and sites, landed in the systems you already run.
→ Field data
Telemetry from field equipment
data acquisition at the edge
data into your SCADA, historian, or dashboard

Field data

Get the data off the equipment and into your systems.

Field data →

Field equipment
Edge device
Link: Starlink or wireless
Your systems: SCADA · historian
Dashboard

Layout · data path

Field data acquisition

Source: Field equipment
Link: Starlink or wireless
Lands in: SCADA, historian, dashboard

→ data lands where your team already works

Layout only · no client data

Data and dashboards

Data & AI →

Layout · dashboard

Operations at a glance

Data in today: —
Sources reporting: —
Last write: —

Layout · into your systems

Into the historian

→ reading received
→ written to historian
→ dashboard refreshed

Status: Layout only

Layout only · no client data

Connected and secure sites

Connected sites →

Layout · link status

Backhaul

Starlink: —
Wireless: —
Edge → systems: —

Layout · secure handling

High-trust

Handling: Air-gapped
Experience: NERC CIP

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

I'm John Daharsh, and Western Ascent is my company. Over a quarter century in software, global IT and cybersecurity, remote comms, and NERC CIP and air-gapped work, all in one outfit.

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Hard sites. Software, data, and field ops the operation can run on.

Software and web.

Data, analytics, and ML.

AI-forward operations.

Connected and secure sites.

Field data acquisition.