Sridhar Iyengar: In 2011, my business partner and I started our second venture together. It was a wearable tech company called Misfit Wearables. We were heavily inspired by the digital health area that we were exposed to. We wanted to do something in digital health. Back in 2010, the only way to do that was
We observed the movement of system administrators becoming DevOps engineers. Sridhar is leading an effort of moving lab administrators becoming LabOps engineers with the help of cutting edge technology like IoT.
Sramana Mitra: I was trying to understand your specific use case that you talked about. Are you saying that your customers who are doing remote patient servicing and providing all of those functionalities are building on top of your hardware? Jim Xiao: We allow them to just focus on the software. Even if you raise
Sramana Mitra: What is the differentiator? Comparable to the Apple iWatch, would it not make sense for your customer to build an app on iWatch? What is the case for using your technology? Jim Xiao: It’s really down to control. Apple is known for having it’s wall guarded and keeping its user data to themselves.
Jim is building an AWS or Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service company for rapid deployment of IOT products and use cases. Startups can also leverage the platform to quickly build IoT products. Fascinating discussion. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Mason.
Sramana Mitra: Do you see the safety concerns being top of mind for the next decade or more? Guillermo Diaz: I think it will be. It won’t be like it was last year. Safety is at the top of the mind for most customers that I talk to. There is a safety aspect to it.
Sramana Mitra: When I look at the current landscape and the foreseeable future, this is going to be an issue. I would like to know if there are non-vaccinated people around me if I am in a public setting. Vaccinated people are not at risk from non-vaccinated people. That might not be entirely true because
Sramana Mitra: You haven’t talked about healthcare vertical use cases. Are you in healthcare and clinical studies? Guillermo Diaz: Yes. We are working closely with a healthcare organization in Colorado. They are trying to do similar things, but we are also working with them on the connectivity into image readers. This means being able to