 So we had the ID Tech Act show and who are you? I'm Rodja Erchert. I'm Munching director of Flick UK. We're a subsidiary of Flick from Silicon Valley So what is Flick? Okay, and it's felt like with a C and a Q. Yeah The founder is a keen cricketer and he originally had the idea of putting monitoring into sports equipment, but he rapidly concluded that Industrial IoT would be a more interesting area to concentrate on so we focus on Industrial IoT specifically condition monitoring in different industries. So where are you in these pictures? Okay We can be in different areas. The three main things we focus on are smart wireless sensors with edge intelligence Also algorithms and analytics so we can be involved in monitoring things like vibration Acoustics current so our sensors can be more be used to monitor assets generally large mechanical assets our Wireless sensors are Operate off batteries. Is that what it looks like? That's that's how one of our models looks like. Yes, you have them working now. Yes I've got it. I've got a demo version here. This is a vibration sensor So what do you have in this box? There are there are some MEMS based sensors which are used for undertaking the measurements There's a micro powerful microcontroller memory and firmware on the system and there is in this case a Wi-Fi link So you could do Wi-Fi or Laura or what would you do? We try to be agnostic as far as wireless interfaces are concerned We we we offer today Wi-Fi Laura and we will shortly offer narrow band IOT And that's using the 5g or it could eventually use 5g We there's nothing to stop 5g being used in the future at the moment What we're we do focused on is 4g cellular Wi-Fi Laura one So is this a right kind of product for this kind of market? They like having this kind of because it's It cannot go in any weather It's it's going to work for a long time or the enclosures have to work And to be protected against moisture and against dust So in this for example, this is a monitor being installed on a wastewater pump And it's been used to get insights into the health of the pump This can allow you to detect when perhaps a potential failure is about to happen or Alternatively, you can use it to introduce condition-based maintenance plans Does it have a battery inside or where does it get a power? These are battery operated. Yes, so inside this box. There's like a battery This is a demo model and there isn't it could be a battery in there and it could be a battery how long It depends on the settings you have The battery life will depend on a number of things like the duty cycle the sampling rates You're using that generally speaking our clients are wanting things to run for years rather than days So like five years maybe or ten years. It'll depend on the setting. I think I think since some of the Applications we have have a fairly high sampling rate for things like vibration or acoustics It'd be more likely to be two two years But if you're doing environmental monitoring you could have a much lower sampling rate and your batteries could last a lot longer So 10 years it's possible if we install it like on a huge ship on a train or in a bridge or something You might want to have solar or no, so you don't have to go and change the batteries There are a number of possibilities clearly if you've got a constant source of power like a solar panel or Or even if you have access to mains power, there's no reason why you shouldn't use these other sources So What's the latest and what are you showing here? Is this a part of your solution? That is showing the mic. Yeah, that is showing vibration monitoring So this part of your solution where people have like a back-end or guess we we transmit data to the cloud so we have Back-end analysis and we also have visualization for for our clients, which is customizable And it's so it's industrial IOT solutions. Where are you based and and what's the status of the company? Okay, the the the company is based in Silicon Valley in San Jose We have two subsidiary operations one is in Western Australia And we're based in Aberdeen in Scotland covering the Europe Middle East market Are you a startup or yes? We start up. We start up. We started in 2015 We opened our office in Australia two years ago, and we opened our office in Scotland in December. Are you shipping these? Is it we have clients? So so we have we have a number of projects running in different industries. The industries include I've mentioned waste water pump monitoring. We've had cases monitoring transport systems including Ground power units at airports and also we've had Monitoring in the maritime environment monitoring the impacts of ships when they're docking and also providing data analysis to shipyards All right, and what's next? What's next? Well, we're anticipating further use cases. We've got some interest in the electrical utility market monitoring distribution networks But basically any Mechanical or electrical resource In industry is potentially going to make gains from understanding the condition and Introducing appropriate maintenance This is definitely the future of the industrial IOT right but what makes you different from the other solutions? Maybe out there for the last 10 years most people talking about IOT have been talking about Having relatively simple computations on the sensor node and transmitting a lot of data to the cloud Now in the industrial context if you're wanting to use a narrow band network such as Laura one or narrow band IOT You can't transmit vast amounts of data which might be Generated by monitoring vibrations for example because you just don't have a big enough data pipe So what we've done is what differentiates us is we've put Intelligence on the sensor nodes themselves, so we have a powerful microcontroller and firmware to process the raw data Then this means that we can send More meaningful information at a high level over a communications link things like data features Alarms and alerts and this means we need to transmit far less data than traditional IOT solutions So you have a it's not just compression is it's like you have it's extracting features from the data You have kind of AI on the edge or something we have we have We process the data and extract features from it. Yes, and then we have the higher The more complex algorithms of course run in the cloud All right, so looking forward to a more efficient world right hopefully that's that's our goal with with Mechanical assets being better looked after and better utilized