Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to you as well as to your company. John Horn: I’m the CEO of Ingenu. We are a major player globally in the Internet of Things. When you look at the Internet of Things, all of the things need to be connected in order for there to
Sramana Mitra: Tell us a little bit about the specifics of Greenwave. Where are you doing this company from? Where are you based? What are the specifics of the company? Martin Manniche: We started the company up front. We saw that there was a need for us to innovate in a different way and build
Martin Manniche: I also think that the most intuitive way of controlling things is not with having a Swiss Army knife of applications. How many of you don’t have a smartphone with way too many applications where 85% of them are most likely never used? The most intuitive way of controlling things is using your
Martin Manniche: Another example is how we are using our platform for smart grid. We are using it for optimization on the power network in, what we call, the communications hub that takes data from the electrical meter and gas meter. In the past, you had readings everyday. Now you can have readings every hour.
Sramana Mitra: What would be the most comfortable for us to understand what you do is if you step us through a customer use case. Martin Manniche: I can go into a few customer use cases. One is how are we bringing value to a bigger telco? So an operator who is offering consumers home
IoT is moving right along, here is a comprehensive discussion on some use cases and solutions from Greenwave Systems that are real and active. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Greenwave. Martin Manniche: I’m the Chairman and CEO of Greenwave Systems. We’re a managed services platform company.
Sramana Mitra: This is very risky business though – trying to act venture capitalist in startups and building their products against sweat equity. That’s, business-wise, quite a risky move. Bob Witter: It’s a lot of fun. We have never had any investment dollars, so the risk is our own. We’ve taken a different approach than,
Sramana Mitra: What does it mean when you say they distribute? Do they distribute your component or do they distribute the fully-integrated solution of these gas cylinders that have self-monitoring and self-updating capacity? Bob Witter: When we started, we were only a device provider. We helped them find the resources to build out the solution