About RackNet
The Premier Monitoring Service for Innovive Racks
RackNet is the premier Innovive rack monitoring service — the only monitoring platform built specifically for Innovive IVC racks. It was created by Reese Systems — the same engineering team that designed and continues to develop the Innorack digital controller found on every Innovive rack worldwide.
That partnership began in 2009. Reese Systems has been the architect and primary developer of the Innorack controller since its inception, and today continues to work directly with Innovive on controller maintenance and new product development. This means RackNet isn’t a third-party add-on reading surface-level data from your racks. It’s built by the people who understand Innovive’s technology at the firmware level — from the inside out.
RackNet is trusted by leading global contract research organizations and research institutions across North America, Europe, and the Middle East, with customer relationships spanning more than a decade.
Built From the Inside Out
RackNet began inside Innovive. In 2009, Reese Systems partnered with Innovive to develop the digital controller for the Innorack IVC system — the embedded hardware and firmware that manages airflow, monitors differential pressure, and reports system status on every Innovive rack. That controller became the foundation for RackNet, a remote monitoring and information management platform that gave vivarium managers visibility into every rack in their facility from any device.
For years, RackNet operated as an Innovive-offered add-on service, connecting to rack controllers over WiFi through a locally installed server. It worked, but the architecture had limitations — it required IT involvement, depended on facility WiFi infrastructure, and tied monitoring data to on-premise hardware.
In 2019, Innovive made the decision to focus on its core caging and rack products. The RackNet intellectual property was transferred to Reese Systems, its original architect and developer. What could have been the end of RackNet became the beginning of a complete reimagining.
Free to rebuild without constraints, Reese Systems designed RackNet 2.0 from the ground up. The WiFi dependency was replaced with LoRaWAN wireless technology — purpose-built for IoT sensor networks, more reliable in facility environments, and completely independent of IT infrastructure. The on-premise server was replaced with a cloud-based platform using redundant, fault-tolerant services. The result is a monitoring system that is easier to deploy, more reliable to operate, and more capable than anything that came before it.
Today, RackNet 2.0 is providing Innovive rack monitoring across multiple continents — and because Reese Systems continues to develop the Innorack controller alongside Innovive, RackNet evolves in lockstep with the hardware it monitors.
Why No One Else Can Do What RackNet Does
Most vivarium environmental monitoring systems are designed to work with any equipment from any manufacturer. That generality is their limitation. They can tell you the temperature in a room or detect a power failure, but they can’t tell you what’s actually happening inside your racks — because they don’t understand the hardware.
RackNet is different. It was built by the same team that engineered the Innorack digital controller, and it communicates directly with that controller’s internal systems. This isn’t a sensor clipped onto a rack. RackNet reads ACH and differential pressure data from the controller itself, interprets system and power alarms with full context, and tracks airflow performance over time with a level of detail that no generic monitoring platform can replicate.
That depth of integration exists because Reese Systems doesn’t just monitor Innovive racks — it helps build them. The ongoing development partnership with Innovive means that when controller capabilities evolve, RackNet evolves with them. New features, new data points, and new diagnostic capabilities are available to RackNet customers without hardware upgrades or additional installation.
This also means RackNet is purpose-built for how vivariums actually operate. Alerts are tuned to the conditions that matter for animal welfare and research continuity, not generic thresholds borrowed from data center monitoring or building management systems. Daily status reports, airflow trend analysis, and maintenance tracking are designed around the workflows of vivarium managers and IACUC compliance teams — not IT departments.
No other Innovive rack monitoring service has this combination: the engineering team behind the rack controller, a direct development partnership with the rack manufacturer, and a platform built exclusively for vivarium operations.
About Reese Systems
Reese Systems, Inc. was founded by Doug Reese, a technology executive with more than 25 years of experience in embedded systems, cloud architecture, and IoT solutions. Before founding Reese Systems, Doug served as CTO of a cloud-based consumer technology platform, leading the design and scaling of infrastructure that served millions of users. That experience in building reliable, scalable systems directly shaped the architecture behind RackNet 2.0.
Doug’s relationship with Innovive predates Reese Systems’ formal partnership. He and Innovive’s former CEO worked together at an Internet startup in the late 1990s. That long-standing professional relationship led to the collaboration that produced the Innorack digital controller in 2009, and ultimately to RackNet.
Today, Reese Systems remains a small company by design. RackNet is not a side project inside a large corporation or a product passed between owners. It is the primary focus of a dedicated engineering team with direct, ongoing access to Innovive’s hardware platform. That focus means faster response to customer needs, tighter integration with Innovive’s technology roadmap, and a level of accountability that larger monitoring vendors cannot offer.
Our Commitment
Vivarium monitoring exists for one reason: to protect research. Equipment failures, airflow disruptions, and environmental changes don’t wait for business hours. RackNet was built around that reality — continuous monitoring, instant alerts, and complete data history so that problems are caught early and nothing goes undocumented.
We believe monitoring should be simple to deploy and invisible to IT. It should work around the clock without requiring attention, and speak up immediately when something needs it. Data should be accessible from anywhere, exportable for compliance reporting, and retained as a complete historical record — not trapped on a local server that only one person knows how to maintain.
RackNet is actively developed and continuously improving. As our customers’ needs evolve — new reporting requirements, new operational workflows, new ways of managing facility data — RackNet evolves to meet them. As Innovive’s rack technology advances, RackNet advances alongside it. Development is already underway on new environmental monitoring sensors to provide even broader visibility into vivarium conditions, expanded alerting through additional messaging services, and integration with facility building management and automation systems. Our customers don’t face a future where their monitoring system falls behind their hardware or their operations. That ongoing investment is not just a product decision — it’s a commitment to the researchers, veterinarians, and vivarium teams who depend on these racks every day.
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