Structure, which plans to start assembling in Wrangell next year its remote monitoring system for utilities and other users, will hold an open house at its Front Street location on Friday, Aug. 28.

“We thought it would be a cool experience” for people in town to see and hear from the team — and ask questions — about what the system does and how it works, said Jake Haas, one of the founders of Structure.

“It will give people confidence to hear from experts in the field,” he said in an interview on Aug. 12.

Hardware and software team members will be at the open house, Haas said.

“It’s a confusing concept for people,” said Blake Rider, chief executive officer of the company.

“We really want a big turnout,” he said of the open house.

Structure, which plans to assemble and market a new system for utilities and businesses to remotely monitor their power lines, water lines, sewage treatment plants or other operations, will remodel the former Ottesen’s warehouse on Front Street for its work site.

The company, which was established by a trio of Juneau friends and their partners, earlier this year selected Wrangell for its assembly operation.

The open house, set to start at 6 p.m. Aug. 28, will include food and refreshments, and live music by Ketchikan-raised Pat Troll, Haas said.

It also will include a simulated demonstration of Structure’s SCADA system (supervisory control and data acquisition).

“We will use a … controller programmed to simulate … a single pump/booster station (part of a municipal water system),” showing how SCADA monitors pumps and valves, pressure, level and flow, Rider, said.

Structure plans to manufacture its comms vault (communications box) in Wrangell. Routers, switches, radio gear and circuit boards will be assembled into the comms vault, a box about the size of a stereo speaker.

The company sees a strong market for its system, which it says will be an improvement over SCADA hardware and software dating back to the 1970s, particularly in rural Alaska where critical infrastructure is spread out, requiring a dependable monitoring system using radio signals, fiber-optic lines, phone lines or wireless signals.

The company is still working on its product design and software. “We’re finalizing our production. … We plan on moving fast,” Rider said, expecting to start hiring workers and assembling the comms vaults in Wrangell sometime next year.

In advance of the hardware manufacturing, “we fully intend to roll out our software in the first quarter (2027),” he said.

The initial number of jobs in town would depend on the number of orders, Kyle Farley-Robinson, one of the three founding partners, said in a July interview. It could range upward from half a dozen on the assembly and testing crews at the start.

“Our goal is to hire local first,” and provide training, Haas said last month.