SCL Elements

What SCL Elements does

SCL Elements is a private Canadian company headquartered in Montréal, founded in 2009, that designs and sells multi-protocol building automation controllers marketed under the CAN2GO brand. The product line targets the building automation systems market with controllers that support both wired and wireless deployments, enabling integration across heterogeneous building management system (BMS) environments. The company operates with a small team of 11–50 employees, consistent with a focused niche hardware/IoT business serving systems integrators, facility operators, and BMS retrofitters.

Capital history is limited to a single disclosed Series 2 funding round of $2,150,000 closed on 2011-10-04, led by The Westly Group with Navitas Capital participating; no subsequent financing events are recorded. The company has not publicly disclosed pricing models, customer segments, named customer references, channel partnerships, awards, patents, or management team details in the supplied data. Notably, the company's primary web property (can2go.com) currently resolves to a Nameshield domain parking page rather than an active website, which materially constrains visibility into current go-to-market activity, product roadmap, and operating status. Based on the available inputs, SCL Elements appears to be a small, niche hardware vendor in building automation with limited recent observable commercial activity.

Name

SCL Elements

Website

https://can2go.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

SCL Elements is a private Montréal-based company that designs and sells multi-protocol CAN2GO building automation controllers supporting both wired and wireless deployments for systems integrators and facility operators, founded in 2009 with a small 11–50 person team.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Building Automation Controllers

NAICS

Automatic Environmental Control Manufacturing for Residential, Commercial, and Appliance Use (334512)

SIC

Auto Controls For Regulating Residential & Comml Environments (3822)

akta.pro primary industry

Controls, Thermostats, Sensors & Building Automation (HVAC Controls) (IMADANAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Smart Building Interoperability & Protocol Services (BACnet/Modbus/KNX Gateways) (BPABAGAM), Building Automation & Controls (BAS/BMS, HVAC Controls) (IMAIABAD)

Keywords

• Building automation controllers
• Multi-protocol gateways
• Wireless BAS controllers
• Wired BAS controllers
• HVAC control hardware

Headquarters

HQ city

Montréal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

SCL Elements manufactures and sells CAN2GO multi-protocol controllers used in building automation systems. The product line includes both wireless and wired controller variants designed to bridge and manage heterogeneous building subsystems (such as HVAC, lighting, and metering). Customers are building owners, facility operators, and building automation systems integrators who need interoperable hardware for commercial and institutional buildings.

Product overview

No product or service information available for SCL Elements in the provided source data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CAN2GO Multi-Protocol Controllers CAN2GO is a multi-protocol building automation controller family that supports multiple BAS communication protocols within a single device, enabling integration of HVAC, lighting, and metering subsystems in commercial buildings.
• CAN2GO Wireless Controllers A wireless form-factor variant of the CAN2GO multi-protocol building automation controller for facilities where wireless connectivity is preferred or required.
• CAN2GO Wired Controllers A wired form-factor variant of the CAN2GO multi-protocol building automation controller for facilities using traditional wired BAS infrastructure.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Honeywell Building Technologies: Honeywell's Building Technologies division (now including Tridium/Niagara) offers a full suite of building controllers, sensors, and BAS software — the dominant incumbent against which SCL Elements competes.
• Tridium (Honeywell): Tridium's Niagara Framework is the canonical multi-protocol building-automation platform, bridging BACnet, Modbus, LonWorks, and others — directly comparable to SCL Elements' CAN2GO multi-protocol positioning, now backed by Honeywell's scale.
• Siemens Smart Infrastructure: Siemens' Smart Infrastructure business (Desigo, APOGEE) provides BACnet and proprietary building controllers at global scale, defining the competitive ceiling for SCL Elements' controller line.
• Schneider Electric (EcoStruxure Building): Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure Building Operation is a major building-automation platform that includes multi-protocol controllers, representing the large-incumbent pressure on SCL Elements' market.

Direct peers

• Reliable Controls: Reliable Controls designs and manufactures BACnet building automation controllers, software, and peripherals sold to a similar systems-integrator channel as SCL Elements.
• Distech Controls: Distech Controls makes BACnet/IP, BACnet MS-TP, and wireless (EnOcean, Bluetooth) controllers and room devices for building automation — directly overlapping SCL Elements' wired + wireless controller offering.
• Delta Controls: Delta Controls manufactures BACnet-native building automation controllers and sensors and sells globally through a systems-integrator channel, directly comparable to SCL Elements' controller product line and GTM model.
• KMC Controls: KMC Controls produces BACnet-based building automation controllers, VAV controllers, and related hardware — a like-for-like hardware peer in the same mid-market controls segment as SCL Elements.
• Intesis (HMS Networks): Intesis specializes in protocol gateways and multi-protocol interfaces for building and industrial automation, closely matching the 'multi-protocol bridging' differentiation that CAN2GO originally targeted.
• Contemporary Controls: Contemporary Controls builds BACnet, Modbus, and ARCNET building-automation infrastructure (routers, gateways, controllers) and competes in the same mid-market controls integrator channel as SCL Elements.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/can2go
• Facebookfacebook.com/Can2go

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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