7. Rmoni startup story 2005: RMONI bvba Mark Kestens, ir (SW) Bart Meekers, ir (HW) Innovation: Zigbee based sensor network Sensor2Web technology 2006: RMONI nv Investors & customers: Allegro InvestmentFund LRM: InvestmentFund of Limburg Today: 12 persons, 65% engineering Sales via VAR’s 3 iMinds testimonial - 13 oct 2011
8. “Sensor2webtm” outline Wireless Sensors: Temperature, Humidity, CO2,… Coordinator/Gateway Internet: via public IP/GPRS network Sensor2Web: Data Storage and User Applications 4 iMinds testimonial - 13 oct 2011
10. iMinds testimonial - 13 oct 2011 Challenges: Monitoring of Containers IBBT PROJECT “MoCo” Technical challenges metal, sea, rental, … Economicalchallenges low to high end products 6
11. iMinds testimonial - 13 oct 2011 Work in progress @ RUG/IBBT WiCA, IBCN Develop new protocols for the 3 hierarchical types of communication Prototyping of antenna design and validation of the network solutions in a test-bed and in a real-life environment 7
13. Conclusion iMinds testimonial - 13 oct 2011 9 RMONI wants to developsolutionsforharsh environments (stacked and stored Containers) Needforexperimental research at the Wireless Sensor Network & Antenna level No expertise and equipment in house Funded project MoCo (IBBT) with RUG and industrial partners Field measurements to build a model for intra/inter-container monitoring Testbed iLab.t offers playground to scale to harbors/trains/shipsetups New radio extendspossibilities and Rmoni compatible