Engineers Building Solutions for Engineers
We saw the challenges firsthand. We built the solutions that work. Over 30 years of engineering expertise dedicated to making your substation operations smarter, safer, and more reliable.
About SUBNET
SUBNET is a software products company dedicated to serving the needs of the electric utility industry.
We provide innovative interoperability solutions that combine the latest SUBstation technologies with modern day NETworking and computing technologies, enabling electrical utilities to build a smarter, more effective electricity grid. We create products that make your substations–and your overall power grid–more intelligent, enabling you to more reliably and safely deliver power to your customers.
Our Unified Grid Intelligence Solution
Built on four flagship products that work together to create comprehensive substation intelligence
PowerSYSTEM Center
Centralized command and control platform for comprehensive grid intelligence and real-time substation management.
PowerSYSTEM Server
High-performance server infrastructure for processing, storing, and analyzing critical power system data streams.
SubSTATION Server
Local substation intelligence hub providing secure gateway and protocol translation for multi-vendor environments.
SubSTATION Explorer
Advanced diagnostic and analysis tools for deep inspection of substation device configurations and performance.
Our Journey: From Engineers to Industry Leaders
Over three decades of innovation, driven by real-world challenges and engineering solutions
The Beginning: Demand Side Solutions
Founded as Demand Side Solutions Inc., we started by tackling the challenge of better utilizing available electricity supply and managing demand peaks. Our real-time SCADA-based solutions enabled electrical utilities to implement interruptible and peak time use rates for large commercial and industrial customers.
This early experience with real-time systems and utility operations laid the foundation for everything that followed.
Pioneering Open Protocols
Our experience led us naturally into substation automation and integration solutions, and eventually into open communication protocols. We were among the first organizations to recognize the power of the DNP3 open protocol, leading DNP3-based training, test set implementation, and development of the DNP3 User Group.
We partnered with Protocol Technologies Inc., combining our protocol expertise with their test-set technology to create unified, multi-protocol solutions that replaced vendor-specific "lunch box" test sets.
SUBNET is Born
In April 2000, Demand Side Solutions and Protocol Technologies merged to become SUBNET Solutions Inc. This unified our dual focuses: open protocols and multi-protocol test sets became the roots of SUBNET's Unified Substation Intelligence philosophy.
This concept was designed to free utilities from vendor-specific or proprietary technologies, offering solutions that provide true, multi-vendor, multi-function interoperability.
Industry Recognition & Growth
Today, SUBNET is a rapidly growing, 100% privately-held company with locations throughout North America. Our products are used by over 300 utilities and 50 vendors, bridging the real-time information gap between intelligent substation devices and powerful utility business intelligence systems.
We've been ranked 29th in Deloitte Canada's FAST 50 and 319th in Deloitte Technology's North American FAST 500, recognition of our continuous innovation and growth in serving the electric utility industry.
SUBNET Solutions Inc.
SUBNET Solutions Inc. is a software solutions company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, with offices in Edmonton, Alberta, the United States, South Africa, and Australia.
Our Focus
Our focus is on solving device and data interoperability and management problems primarily for the power utility industry. We integrate cyber-security, operational technologies, and distributed system techniques together when developing solutions to these problems.
Equal Opportunity Employment
SUBNET Solutions Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to mental or physical disabilities, family status, marital status, sex or gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, religion or creed, nationality or citizenship, national or ethnic place of origin, ancestry, or race or color. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to hr@subnet.com.
Our Commitment to Quality
SUBNET is focused on providing the highest quality of products and services to its clients.
We are continually striving to exceed our customer's expectations and we believe these efforts are the primary reason for our exceptional successes and continuous growth. SUBNET is dedicated to constant improvement related to delivering the highest level of software products and service excellence.
"Engineers understand engineers. We've been where you are, faced the same challenges, and built solutions that actually work in the real world of power system operations."
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