Sramana Mitra: In the broad categorization that you just made, other than energy savings applications and then the off-shoots of energy savings, what are some of the other buckets of enterprise IoT? Danny Yu: How to think about this is look at whose problems are we solving. We can talk about technology and effectively the
Sramana Mitra: Who else besides Enlighted falls in that pool? Danny Yu: We don’t compete with some of the companies directly. There’s a company called Digital Lumens that sells fixtures and controls. We, on the other hand, don’t sell the fixtures but sell the controls and the software. They sell this bundled solution where they offer their fixtures
Sramana Mitra: If you were to look at your entire customer base, who are some of the off-the-chart leaders in adopting this kind of optimization? Danny Yu: We can look at folks like United Stationers, an office products distributor. They have an office facility and also have some warehouse distribution. We’re deployed in a project with
Sramana Mitra: It takes time to fully deploy the solution. If you have one customer with 20 to 40 facilities, it takes time to get it fully deployed, right? Danny Yu: Yes. The way this works with existing buildings is they typically want to do some type of an upgrade to the facility. You time
Sramana Mitra: You are more of a service side? Danny Yu: It was a network analysis product. By helping companies solve problems with networking, it gets us to understand the problem better because a test company has to understand the test cases. What effectively happened is we gathered all these expertise across all these different
Danny Yu: We have one application in retail. It’s a restaurant chain. They actually use a temperature sensor to detect whether or not their freezers have stayed cold. The reason why they do that is because if the power goes out and they’re not able to monitor and track the temperature of the freezer; then as
Enterprise Internet of Things is getting a lot of hype these days. I sat down with Danny Yu, CEO of DainTree, a company that is actually selling an energy management solution for controlling the energy usage at commercial facilities. Very interesting window into a segment of the industry that is likely to create a couple