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Circular clarifier at a water treatment plant, with a control building, light poles, and forested mountains behind it.
Water & Power

Keep Treatment and Power Online

CPLANE helps water utilities, power operators, and the system integrators who serve them replace proprietary PLCs and DCS nodes with an open, O-PAS-based system. Cybersecurity is designed in. Treatment and generation stay online.

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Quick estimate

Downtime cost avoided with a phased cutover

$250,000
21 days
2 days

$4.8M

19 production days kept

How CPLANE does it

Compares a single big-bang cutover with migrating one isolatable unit at a time.

Revenue pulled forward

50 MW
$150
6 weeks

$10.4M

$1.7M per week of delay

How CPLANE does it

Every week of commissioning delay is a week of unbilled capacity.

Annualized OT downtime exposure

$250,000
7 days
10%

$175,000

Single incident: $1.8M

How CPLANE does it

Illustrative only, not a risk assessment.

Annual value from optimization

$200.0M
1.5%
$20.0M
5%

$4.0M

$3.0M yield, $1.0M energy

How CPLANE does it

Adds a yield or throughput gain on production value to a reduction in annual energy spend.

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A Full Plant Replacement Is Not the Only Path

Aging proprietary controllers are an operations problem and a spare-parts problem. Treatment and generation cannot wait on a single vendor's outage window.

A phased approach keeps field wiring and modernizes compute in steps. That fits a utility capital plan and a plant that has to stay in service.

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How We Start

Phased modernization that keeps treatment and generation in service.

Step 1

Map What Is Exposed

Controller inventory, where remote access lives, and which treatment or generation units cannot take a single-vendor outage.

Step 2

Prove One Island

Live control starts on one isolatable unit: a clarifier, a filter, a lift station, or one generation loop. The rest stays on the installed stack until that island proves itself.

Step 3

Keep the Integrator

CPLANE does not go around the SI who already knows the plant. Engineering, the integrator, and operations stay in the loop.

Step 4

Evaluate on the Fusion 500

Validate the platform on the Fusion 500 before a wider rollout. Same stack for a treatment plant and a power unit.

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Built for Water & Power

Treatment plants and power systems. One open control architecture.

Where This Applies
Why Modernize Now
Treatment and Power
What CPLANE Delivers
Cybersecurity
Where the Proof Is

Treatment plants and power systems

Drinking water, wastewater, collection, and distribution. On-site generation, substations, and the power that keeps treatment running.

  • Drinking water, wastewater, and distribution
  • Generation, substations, and plant power
  • Lift stations, clarifiers, filters, and chemical feed
One pane of glass. One security perimeter.
Aerial view of a water treatment plant.

Lock-in is an outage problem

When one OEM controls the outage window, the spare-parts price, and the upgrade roadmap, the utility has no other path. That dependency compounds over a 25-year asset life.

  • Internet-facing controllers are a known vector
  • A full replacement is often not in the budget
  • Power and treatment share the same controller families and the same patch problem
Modernize compute. Keep the field wiring.
Older proprietary PLC hardware.

Modernize while treatment and generation stay in service

Drinking water, wastewater, collection, distribution, and plant power move onto O-PAS in phases. One capital vote does not have to replace the whole site. The longer account is The Challenge Water Utilities Face.

  • Start on a filter, a clarifier, a lift station, or one power loop
  • Keep field wiring when rewiring costs more than a short outage
  • Take controllers off the public internet, then zone the plant
Your SI stays in the loop.
A circular clarifier at a treatment plant.

Open, software-defined control

Harder to attack, easier to patch, cheaper to sustain, and free of single-vendor dependency at every layer. Software failover in under one control cycle. No extra standby chassis.

  • IEC 61131-3 applications and any OPC UA HMI
  • Patch and swap a node without a maintenance window
  • Multiple vendors can supply standards-based components
Not a lock-in swap.
Cooling towers at a power plant.

Designed in, not bolted on

CISA advisories on water and wastewater point at exposed controllers. The control layer is built to IEC 62443-4-2 SL2. A February 2026 U.S. Army red team found no vulnerabilities that allowed unauthorized access to control.

  • Zone the plant. Access through a gateway.
  • Not a substitute for red-teaming or taking controllers off the internet today.
  • A password change on a controller is an operations event.
Residual risk is never zero.
Security operations monitors.

In production, and relevant here

Open control on this stack is in production at an ExxonMobil chemical terminal, a continuous process with the same constraint treatment and generation have: the plant stays online. Fusion 500 is the evaluation unit before a wider rollout.

  • Continuous process, in production
  • ExxonMobil chemical terminal, in production
  • CISA advisories name water and wastewater
Project Watershed 250 is the Texas water-utility cyber program. The Challenge Water Utilities Face is the longer account.
Fusion 500 evaluation unit.

CPLANE is delivered by a global network of certified systems integrators.

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Modernize in Phases

A phased path that keeps field wiring and stays inside the budget you have.

Treatment and power. One architecture.

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