STARTUP STORIES

We meet Technocomm, the UK startup behind EnviroSense, an IoT solution uses a network of connected terminals that continuously monitor the air in real time

Tell us about your start up
We have developed a common platform ‘CommonSense’ for connecting a visualising data from Sensors for the IoT. Our first product EnviroSense is a fully integrated sensor to end customer graphical interface for Air Quality monitoring. Our target customers are city councils seeking to better understand where they have pollution related problems.

What is your USP?
Our system is small, portable, connected to the 4G network with CAT-M1 and can be mounted on vehicles travelling and sensing air quality all over urban areas instead of single stationary locations

What is your relationship with the telecom sector?
We use the 4G Cat-M1 networks with 2G fallback, and this allow us to have efficient cost effective data transmission to our cloud platform.

How have you got to your current stage of development?
We received an investment grant from West Berkshire council to allow us to fund the manufacturing of our first products. Following this funding a local private company became an investor in our company

Why did you establish the business?
We realised that much of the information collected by government bodies is not suitable for making decisions and policies on air quality improvement, and most had very little or useless data to make qualified decisions. We are three entrepreneurs with technology backgrounds in hardware software and networks and we consider we have a leading performance solution

What was your motivation for the business?
“Only the paranoid survive” (Any Grove – Intel ex CEO) is a good motivation. Our company only recruits driven people who always have “10 reasons why something can be done”

What does the future hold for your business?

We need investors, partners, and support from influential motivated people or companies who are connected and can help us scale our company to an international leader in air quality measurement.

COMPANY CV
HEADQUARTERS: Newbury Berkshire UK

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 3

LAST FUNDING TYPE: Local Council + Local private investor
URL: www.technocomm-iot.com
FOUNDERS:
Bijan Mohandes
David Wallace
Steve Levitt

Meet Technocomm in the Startup Village at Total Telecom Congress on the 1-2 November 2022. CSP’s and public sector attend for free: www.totaltele.com/congress 

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INTERVIEW

HOW CAN YOU UPGRADE YOUR NETWORK WHILE ALSO CONTAINING COSTS, MAXIMIZING EFFICIENCY, AND UNLOCKING FUTURE REVENUE STREAMS? THE ANSWER IS TO USE A SINGLE, HIGHLY EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE THAT CAN DELIVER MULTIPLE SERVICES SIMULTANEOUSLY.

Ciena customers are using our Universal Aggregation (UA) and XGS-PON (10G) solutions to dramatically increase their network efficiency and create new revenue potential. Specifically, our customers are creating networks that support a variety of home, work, and remote (including mobile), and edge connectivity scenarios. Ciena’s UA solution introduces a new PON architecture by aggregating and delivering traffic across residential broadband, business Ethernet, and mobile networks (4G/5G) on a single platform. This single access architecture, in effect, enables you to build once and sell services three times.

We caught up with Vimal Pindoria, Director, Routing & Switching Business Development, EMEA, Ciena at #Connected Britain 2022 to get his views.

Read more at https://www.ciena.com/own-the-edge-spotlight

 

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NEWS

The most recent survey of American internet usage by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has shown almost 20 percent of US households remain offline – and most do not see why this should change.

The NTIA conduct the Internet Use Survey every two years, and whilst the latest results have shown that over 108 million households now have access to the Internet at home, there are still over 24 million households that do not use the internet at home.

Of these households, 58 percent say they aren’t interested or don’t need internet access at home. This figure has barely changed since 2016, and less than 30 percent of these household access the internet elsewhere.

Other reasons given for not having internet access at home are cost, which has fallen steadily since 2013 from 29 percent to 18 percent, and availability which has fallen drastically since 2010. This has gone from over 20 percent of household to just 4 percent but this still equates to more than 1.1 million households.

A blog post on the NTIA website concludes “These results suggest that multiple strategies are necessary to stimulate greater adoption of the Internet, including subsidy programs such as the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), the Digital Equity Act, and other initiatives to increase digital skills, equip people with suitable devices, and ensure important online services are accessible to all.”

The benefits of and challenges to providing inclusive connectivity for the USA will be addressed by Connected America, coming to Dallas on the 28-29 March 2023. Find out more about this at www.totaltele.com/connectedamerica 

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