FreeWave and ModuSense to drive turn-key IIoT edge systems
To transform geographically disperse industrial operations, you need visibility of intelligent data at the edge — as well as the ability to proactively manipulate it and make it actionable. FreeWave Technologies and New Zealand-based ModuSense have launched a joint venture that will make turn-key industrial IOT (IIoT) edge systems a reality, quickly and cost-effectively.
Today, FreeWave delivers an ecosystem of edge intelligent radios and systems, manufactured in the U.S., to optimize the extreme edge of remote industrial operations and create a more connected enterprise. Its existing offering enables high-fidelity data capture, analysis, control, and automation via a scalable IIoT platform. ModuSense complements FreeWave’s portfolio adding proven full-stack, off-the-shelf SaaS products and more flexible, agile gateway sensing systems. The combination of these strengths stands to deliver on accelerating global hardware and software IIoT development capabilities in a meaningful and immediately measurable way.
“The ModuSense joint venture expands our portfolio and accelerates our ability to bring fully integrated, game-changing IIoT to market quickly,” says FreeWave Technologies CEO Kirk Byles. “Their entrepreneurial model will ultimately provide us access to a flexible, agile innovation center allowing us to respond to both customer and market needs faster with both off-the-shelf and fully customized IIoT.”
For the last four years, ModuSense has been focused on developing an IIoT platform that powers IoT systems from large enterprises to innovative start-ups and all companies in between. The ModuSense platforms include a modular sensor ecosystem with industry-leading communications including satellite, LTE, BLE and more. Today, they have developed infrastructure for real-time asset tracking and resource monitoring across both agriculture, water and transportation industries. Their satellite-connected sensors are helping beekeepers determine the health of hives in New Zealand as well as identifying environmental threats in real-time. These environmental sensors will be utilized in 1000’s of applications where connectivity has been a challenge but is no longer based on low-cost satellite coverage.
“Geographically dispersed, remote operations pose real challenges across a number of industries,” says ModuSense CEO Bruce Trevarthen. “Our combined portfolio delivers a super powerhouse of capabilities to customers who are hungry for integrated solutions designed to make industrial remote operations more efficient, make critical data more intelligent and help save money to make money. FreeWave brings decades of manufacturing discipline, governance and due-diligence to our agile innovation process.”
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