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Todd Harpel
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Exploring Solutions that Support Extended Distances
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Todd Harpel · July 2025
Educational institutions, healthcare organizations, and enterprise-level businesses face an increasingly common conundrum. More network-connected devices are in locations that may be hard to reach or are outside the footprint of the building and beyond the traditional capabilities of standards-based copper cabling.
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Networked for Wellness—Connecting Smart and Healthy Buildings
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Todd Harpel, RCDD, Kirk Krahn · January 2023
Studies show a correlation between healthy work environments and increased productivity and employee satisfaction. Emerging smart technologies, including sensors, controls, and lighting, can help to promote a healthy building. In recent years, guidance from different standards bodies have provided greater clarity on what defines smart technology. Smart building also includes connectivity, which is essential to any intelligent system.
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Meeting Single-pair Ethernet and Power Delivery Challenges
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Mark Dearing, RCDD, Todd Harpel, RCDD, Harshang Pandya · January 2022
SPE enables the convergence of traditional IT and OT networks operating over optical fiber or 4-pair ethernet cabling into a common intelligent building or industrial network. Discover how this extends the Ethernet network to new systems and devices to quickly deploy and power buildings, while learning about the latest in testing as well.
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