Fluidmesh

Fluidmesh Networks
Industry Computer networking
Headquarters Buffalo Grove, IL and Milan
Key people
 Umberto Malesci, CEO, Cosimo Malesci, EVP Sales, Alessandro Erta, CTO, Andrea Orioli, VP Operations
Website http://www.fluidmesh.com

Fluidmesh Networks is an manufacturer of wireless networking products founded by four Italian engineers, Umberto Malesci, Cosimo Malesci, Andrea Orioli and Torquato Bertani in 2005 as a spin-off out of MIT, where Umberto Malesci and Cosimo Malesci were graduate students in the Department of Engineering. In 2005 Umberto Malesci was a graduate student working at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with Prof. Samuel Madden and Fluidmesh initial software was based on the Roofnet open-source project leveraging Click Modular Router.[1] The Company was initially incubated in the incubator of the Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy. Over the years, Fluidmesh Networks grew its sales globally in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.[2] The Company obtained significant exposure on the Italian national press and television as a successful example of innovation-driven entrepreneurship in the high tech space.[3][4]

Corporate history

The Company was started in 2005 in Cambridge, MA and in Milan, Italy. The Fluidmesh HQ moved from Boston to the Chicago area in 2011 after the acquisition by Waveland Investments and Generation 3 Capital.[5]

The company and its products

Fluidmesh is a manufacturer of hardware and software for wireless point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and wireless mesh networks. Fluidmesh wireless products are used in video-surveillance, industrial, railway and military projects.[6]

Communication Protocol

Fluidmesh use their own, proprietary Prodigy communication protocol for its point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and mesh products.[7]

WiFi and Mobile Connectivity for Trains and Railroads

Fluidmesh developed a wireless communication protocol based on MPLS with a 0 ms handoff time that Fluidmesh claims it is capable to deliver more than 100 Mbit/sec to trains travelling at 350 km/h .[8]

The Internet of Things for Vessels and Maritime Applications

Fluidmesh wireless products have been used to enable one of the largest-scale Internet of Things (IOT) system for the maritime industry, connecting more than 30 vessels operated by NY Waterway, a ferry company that travels on the Hudson River and East River in New York City. The Fluidmesh wireless networks provide continuous broadband connectivity to all the ferries for on-board video-surveillance, passenger entertainment, rail-time engines monitoring, voice (VOIP) communication and passengers WiFi.[9]

Partnership

Fluidmesh has a partnership with the leading CCTV camera manufacturer Pelco, since 2010.[10]

Acquisition

Fluidmesh Networks announced it has been acquired by Generation 3 Capital and Waveland Investments, two private equity firms based in Chicago in April 2011. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "The American Start-up with the brain in Milan". Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  2. ↑ "Grow at all costs". Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  3. ↑ "The new Italy that move forward: Fluidmesh". Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  4. ↑ "Milan Start-up Gub". Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  5. ↑ "Fluidmesh Acquisition by Private Equity Firms". Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  6. ↑ "A Mesh that is good". Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  7. ↑ "Fluidmesh Prodigy Communication Protocol". Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  8. ↑ "Fluidity technology for WiFi for Trains and Railways". Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  9. ↑ "STE Security Innovation Awards Honorable Mention: The End of the Disconnect". Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  10. ↑ "Fluidmesh Pelco Partnership". Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  11. ↑ "Fluidmesh Acquisition by Private Equity Firms". Retrieved 2015-08-12.

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