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Spire holds your physical estate as one record, from the building down to the port, and keeps it current by capturing work as it happens. Here is how it compares with dcTrack, and how a move works.
Why teams look beyond dcTrack
Spire captures installs, moves, changes, maintenance and decommissions at the moment they happen, by whoever does the work, including third parties who do not work for you. Every intervention becomes part of the asset's permanent history, with a field-level audit trail.
Locations, racks, devices, cards, ports, cables and power share a single data model. The same record drives the 3D digital twin, connectivity tracing across physical, logical, business and routing layers, live monitoring and alerting, and role-based dashboards.
Turn a device, a populated rack or a whole room into a versioned template, then deploy it through a guided wizard. When the design changes, update every instance at once or detach the ones that have been customised for a site.
Give each customer a white-label portal where permissions cascade through the hierarchy and isolation holds in search, reports and analytics. A local AI agent answers questions in plain English within each user's permissions, with no calls to external AI services.
Side by side
Bringing in existing data
Assetspire Spire
Import wizard for CSV, Excel and JSON, with fuzzy field matching, per-cell validation and a review stage.
Sunbird dcTrack
SNMP discovery, drawing import, a web services API and a spreadsheet import wizard.[1]
3D visualisation
Assetspire Spire
Real-time 3D twin from building to individual port, built from your DWG/DXF drawings.
Sunbird dcTrack
3D colour-coded floor maps, 3D cabinet and row views, and thermal and pressure maps with time-lapse.[2]
Connectivity
Assetspire Spire
Four layers: cables as tracked assets, logical connections, circuits and services, and multi-hop paths.
Sunbird dcTrack
Port-level power and data circuits, structured cabling, visual circuit traces and single-line diagrams.[2]
Power and environmental monitoring
Assetspire Spire
Built in: BMS, SNMP and Modbus sources, thresholds, and alerts by email, Teams or webhook.
Sunbird dcTrack
Provided by Power IQ, a separate product licensed per node, which integrates with dcTrack.[3]
Reusing standard designs
Assetspire Spire
Versioned templates of devices, racks or rooms; update every instance or detach one.
Sunbird dcTrack
Cloning of items together with the items they contain, plus a vendor models library.[1]
Multi-tenancy and access
Assetspire Spire
White-label portals per customer group, with permissions cascading down to rack and device level.
Sunbird dcTrack
Supports multi-tenancy, granular permissions, SAML 2.0, LDAP and Active Directory.[2]
AI features
Assetspire Spire
Local AI agent for plain-English questions, dashboards and reports, running on-premises or in a private cloud.
Sunbird dcTrack
Tunable AI copilots, including Auto Power Budget and Load Shift Detection.[4]
| Assetspire Spire | Sunbird dcTrack | |
|---|---|---|
| Bringing in existing data | Import wizard for CSV, Excel and JSON, with fuzzy field matching, per-cell validation and a review stage. | SNMP discovery, drawing import, a web services API and a spreadsheet import wizard.[1] |
| 3D visualisation | Real-time 3D twin from building to individual port, built from your DWG/DXF drawings. | 3D colour-coded floor maps, 3D cabinet and row views, and thermal and pressure maps with time-lapse.[2] |
| Connectivity | Four layers: cables as tracked assets, logical connections, circuits and services, and multi-hop paths. | Port-level power and data circuits, structured cabling, visual circuit traces and single-line diagrams.[2] |
| Power and environmental monitoring | Built in: BMS, SNMP and Modbus sources, thresholds, and alerts by email, Teams or webhook. | Provided by Power IQ, a separate product licensed per node, which integrates with dcTrack.[3] |
| Reusing standard designs | Versioned templates of devices, racks or rooms; update every instance or detach one. | Cloning of items together with the items they contain, plus a vendor models library.[1] |
| Multi-tenancy and access | White-label portals per customer group, with permissions cascading down to rack and device level. | Supports multi-tenancy, granular permissions, SAML 2.0, LDAP and Active Directory.[2] |
| AI features | Local AI agent for plain-English questions, dashboards and reports, running on-premises or in a private cloud. | Tunable AI copilots, including Auto Power Budget and Load Shift Detection.[4] |
Last reviewed November 2026. Something out of date? Tell us at info@assetspire.co.uk and we will correct it.
Moving across
Start from an export of your current records: locations, cabinets, devices, ports and connections. Sunbird documents bulk export from dcTrack. Spire's import wizard accepts CSV, Excel (XLSX or XLS) and JSON files, and detects encoding, delimiters and column headers automatically.
The wizard matches your columns to Spire's fields and flags uncertain matches for review. Every value is validated, with errors shown per cell. Records are staged as Create, Update, Skip or Error, so you approve exactly what will be written. Save the mapping to reuse it.
Import DWG or DXF floorplans and extrude them into 3D. Turn your standard rack and room builds into versioned templates, so new capacity is laid out from an approved design rather than drawn again by hand. Large builds run as background tasks with progress tracking.
Keep your current system running while you check Spire against the floor. Repeat imports with your saved mapping as records change: matching records are staged as updates and duplicates are skipped, so the two systems can be compared without creating double entries.
Connect monitoring sources through BMS, SNMP discovery or Modbus, set thresholds and alert routing, and assign role-based dashboards. From cut-over, engineers record work in Spire as it happens, and every change is logged with the user, time and before-and-after values.
FAQ
Yes, through an export. Sunbird documents bulk export from dcTrack, and Spire's import wizard takes CSV, Excel and JSON files with field mapping, validation and a review stage before anything is written. We recommend starting with one site so you can check the result against the floor.
Directly, from Building Management Systems, SNMP-enabled devices and Modbus gateways. Automated SNMP discovery finds the available metrics, and each metric is mapped to the rack, PDU or device it belongs to. Thresholds then drive alerts by email, Microsoft Teams, webhook or in-platform notification.
No. Spire captures the physical layer, from locations and rack positions to power, ports and connections, and feeds it back into your CMDB. Your service management platform stays where it is. The physical record underneath it becomes current.
It depends on the size of your estate and the state of your current records, so we do not quote a standard timescale. A practical first step is to take one site's export through the import wizard and review the staging summary together.
Book a walkthrough with your own data in mind, or tell us your racks, assets and modules and we will send pricing.