About Us | We do Industrial Automation

Chipkin is a building and industrial automation protocol expert. We sell, support, develop, install, configure protocol converters/gateways, data loggers, remote monitoring and control applications.

Founded in October 2000, Chipkin focuses on machine to machine data communications and remote monitoring. Our skills and solutions include protocols like BACnet, Modbus, LonWorks as well as interfaces for many fire, HVAC, lighting and other systems such as Simplex, Notifier, McQuay, GE to name just a few. With Chipkin, you are buying a solution, not a commodity: The combination of configuration, expertise in this field, free BACnet and other tools and support via phone, email, and remote desktop tools means Chipkin is right there with you.

As Chipkin sells its own solutions as well as solutions by other vendors you can rest assured that Chipkin will select the most appropriate solution for your application. Chipkin is a small responsive company. We live or die by the quality of our service and providing quality solutions at a good price to our customers.

With offices in two time zones, Chipkin is able to provide support when you need it.

Who We Are

Peter Chipkin
President
Peter founded the company in 2000 after working for various sectors of the automation software industry, including Fieldserver Technologies. He is responsible for providing strategic leadership for the company by working with the Board and other management to establish long-range goals, strategies, plans, and policies.
Amos Vivancos Leon
Vice President
Amos runs all daily operations of the company. He develops business and financial strategies, monitors goals and adjusts policies to meet them. Amos has been with the company since 2012.
Steven Smethurst
Chief Technical Officer
Steven is responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of the company. Using an active and practical approach, Steven directs all employees in IT and IO departments to attain the company's strategic goals established in the company's strategic plan. He has been with the company since 2000.

Services and Support

Customer satisfaction means a great deal to us, we strive to provide the best possible service to our customers.

Providing solutions by integrating our clients’ needs in terms of safety, daily operations and management disciplines with appropriate control technologies and Human Machine Interfaces. Automation provides reliability, safety, repeatability, and standardization as well as providing a solution route where tasks are too complex or dangerous for humans to manage.

Our Solutions Are Enabling

They will not only solve specific operational requirements but they will allow easy integration into other systems such as marketing, inventory, preventative maintenance and corporate database and intranet applications. They will make your operators better and faster at diagnosing faults and hence make your facilities more productive. They will make plants easier and safer to operate by applying the science of human response and visualization.

We have core skill competencies with a range of technologies including PLC’s, DCS and microprocessor-based control and a range of Human Machine Interface and SCADA applications on a range of operating systems. Applications include machine automation, telemetry, batch, and recipe processes, continuous processes and non-linear control. Industries include marine, environmental, mining, manufacturing, materials handling, warehousing, and food & beverage.

We can provide these skills as part of a project team, as a complete solution vendor and as consultants in design, audit and advisory role.

We have solved many systems integration, data acquisition and communications problems utilizing in-house driver and protocol development skills, electronics & telemetry design and build capabilities and experience in the field.

We have experience in designing processes, designing PFD’s & P&ID’s, control system topologies, control cabinets, operator consoles and panels, control rooms, staging and testing equipment, simulation, designing interfaces to external systems, building HMI’s, installing & commissioning and providing operator & support staff training.

Services and Support

Customer satisfaction means a great deal to us, we strive to provide the best possible service to our customers.

Providing solutions by integrating our clients’ needs in terms of safety, daily operations and management disciplines with appropriate control technologies and Human Machine Interfaces. Automation provides reliability, safety, repeatability, and standardization as well as providing a solution route where tasks are too complex or dangerous for humans to manage.

BACnet for Field Technicians (Free!)

Learning about BACnet? Want to update your BACnet knowledge? This free EBook will guide you through basic and advanced BACnet topics.

You can purchase a hardcopy of this book from Amazon or you can download the BACnet for Field Technicians for free from our website.

FREE CAS BACNET EXPLORER WITH THE PURCHASE OF A BACNET GATEWAY!

Purchase a FieldServer or CAS Gateway from us that contains any BACnet protocol and we will help you test and document the BACnet interface by providing a free full license to the CAS BACnet Explorer and a Hardcopy of the BACnet booklet.

The USB key and booklet ships with the product.

Thanks for choosing Chipkin’s protocol gateways, data clients, and integration services to meet your building and industrial automation requirements!

Chipkin™ is a building and industrial automation protocol expert. We develop, configure, install and support gateways (protocol converters), data loggers and remote monitor and controlling applications. Founded in October 2000, Chipkin provides expert solutions for converting BACnet®, Modbus®, and LonWorks®—to name just a few—and enabling interfaces for HVAC, fire, siren, intercom, lighting, transportation and fuel systems. The high-quality products we offer (including those from other vendors) interface with Simplex™, Notifier™, McQuay™, GE™ and many others—so you can rest assured that we will select the most appropriate solution for your application.

With Chipkin you are buying a solution. Our configuration expertise in this field combined with free BACnet and other tools ensure your success; and our customer support via phone, e-mail, and remote desktop tools means that we’re there when you need us. Chipkin is a small responsive company, and we live or die by the quality of our service—and with offices in two-time zones—we can provide support when you need it. Give us a call now!

Customer Support

Chipkin is proud to provide support for the products we sell. For technical support, sales, and customer service, please contact us at 1 (866) 383-1657

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