IT built around how your sector actually operates.
Education, retail, agriculture, forestry, mining, oilfield services, legal, manufacturing, construction, non-profit, and professional services. Each has its own compliance requirements, software quirks, and uptime expectations. We know the wire in most of them.
Generic IT support treats every business the same. That works until you have a FortiClient VPN dropping at a remote forestry site, a SCADA system that can't share a flat network with office devices, or a healthcare provider asking whether their backups meet their college's requirements. At that point, you need an IT partner who already knows the answer.
North Star is headquartered in Prince George, BC, at the economic centre of the northern interior. The industries we serve are not chosen from a marketing template. They are the industries our clients work in: forestry, mining, construction, oilfield services, agriculture, and the professional services that support them.
Forestry, sawmills, and logging, Remote site connectivity, FortiClient VPN, GIS platform support, ruggedised field devices, and FSC/SFI documentation systems. We operate out of Prince George, in the middle of BC's interior forestry economy.
Mining and resource extraction, Remote site connectivity, OT/IT network segmentation for SCADA systems, safety communications infrastructure, equipment telemetry, and the compliance documentation regulators and insurers expect across BC, Alberta, and Yukon.
Agriculture and agribusiness, Rural connectivity via Starlink, farm management software support, remote monitoring for grain storage and irrigation, and the IT controls that regulated agricultural operations need documented.
Oil and gas / oilfield services, SCADA segmentation, remote well site internet, rugged device procurement and MDM, and compliance documentation for BC and Alberta energy sector operators.
Construction and trades, Project site Wi-Fi, field device management, cloud-based project management integration, and IT for offices that double in size during busy season.
Not every industry requires the same depth of specialisation, but every industry has specific software, compliance obligations, and uptime requirements. We also work extensively in:
For each sector we serve, we maintain documented runbooks that reflect sector-specific software, compliance frameworks, and common failure modes. When we onboard a new forestry client, we are not starting from scratch, we have a baseline that already accounts for the tools and risks common in that environment.
Browse the full industry list below, or call 672-983-1174 to talk through your sector's requirements directly.
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