Wi-NEXT is an Italian networking technology company who, after growing in Turin for the last eight years, is now setting up an office in Silicon Valley to bolster its Italian-made engineering with Silicon Valley marketing and commercialization strategies. Their propriety technology is called WiseMESH and is described in company materials as “a patented Network Operating System (NOS) combining WiFi and low-power WiFi communications with distributed processing for the Internet Of Things (IoT) and Fog Computing applications – aggregating, distributing and virtualizing the underlying computing power, resources, sensors and protocols.”. Wi-Next is establishing the smart networks of the future through which hyper-connected industrial and manufacturing processes – the so called Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) – will come to fruition.
(Wi-NEXT Founder and CEO Nicola De Carne)
“We were born in 2007 from the incubator of the Politecnico di Torino I3P, in 2010 we were acquired by the Group Carpaneto Sati that deals with industrial electrical installations and in 2013 we started to develop a new technology that allows companies to keep monitored in near real time the performance of their machines, “says Founder and CEO Nicola De Carne. “After a great deal of research and development we tested the device in various fields, from the steel industry to pharma to agricultural and now we are ready to go on the market. We will keep the technology and production in Turin, but we decided to open an office in Silicon Valley to manage beyond marketing and commercial aspects.”
Imagine a machine on an assembly line that feeds data into a network whose operators can predict when maintenance will be necessary, lowering the risk of breakdown and increasing machine uptime. Or think of applications that allow one to monitor and control environmental conditions, industrial processes and machinery all in concert, processing real-time sensitive data such as overheating, vibration, energy loss and minute abnormalities in operation.
Wi-NEXT does this kind of work and more through wireless mesh networks of sensors and actuators that are built for the sophisticated monitoring that is required by Industrial IoT. The company was featured in the latest ABI Research Report: Hot Tech Innovators. To learn more about the company click here.