 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Barb Mitchell, coming to you from ITW 2020. Joining me today is Eric Ackner, president of Mercure Europe. Eric, thanks for joining us. Hi, thanks for welcoming me. I'm happy to be here. Yeah, we're happy to have you. So for those of our viewers who may not already know, can you tell us a little bit about Mercure? Yes, of course. Mercure is actually a pretty young Canadian deep technology company creating wireless IoT products. And we have the big audacious goal of enhancing and prolonging the life of a billion people. And we do this with systems that we use every day in our homes and around us like mesh Wi-Fi systems, wireless biosensing systems, or indoor positioning systems. You know, with our company, we are slowly expanding our footprint. We're not only in Canada, we also have offices in Europe, in Berlin, for example, but also in Asia. The story of our founders is based on over 400 patents that they hold in their name. So they have a very strong photo in the industry. And with the solutions that we're building, we already received a lot of industry recognition. For example, the very prestigious Red Dot Award, the CS Innovation Award. So we really hope that we can use us as a technology provider to build the right solutions to enable and help the partners that we're working with. Well, okay, and here we are connecting virtually, ITW 2020 for the first time, virtual, and you're in Berlin. So we're happy to be able to connect in this way. But do you have any recent news that you wanted to share, you know, given that we're all together at ITW virtually this year? Yes, I mean, even in the recording, right, like this, right, we realized that a very stable home network and home Wi-Fi is becoming super crucial. So we call this the business-grade network that you have at home. And in order to create this kind of business-grade connectivity, you need, of course, very powerful hardware. So we're working right now on a great Wi-Fi 6-based mesh Wi-Fi system to make sure you don't have any dead spots or the devices great connected, but to ensure a great connection. Of course, you also need software to manage it. So we are building a platform that can help you to use those hardware and then, depending on the situation of the home, just manage the Wi-Fi. But what's the next thing, right? How does the future look like? In the homes that we are living, we're always looking at the devices that we will use in order to enable our homes to become autonomous like cars, like the cars that are driving on the streets, so that we're coming home and our home is taking care of us and not us taking care of the home. And we do this, for example, with positioning systems that can help you to automate when you work through the home, you know, light or music can follow you and wireless biosensors that are kind of like a check engine in your home, very non-invasively telling you if you're healthy or not. So with all this in mind, what are you most focused on at Mercut? Like when you start to think about the year ahead or even the years to follow, where's your focus? Yes, it's very surprising to us that, you know, despite the global crisis that everybody's experiencing right now, our future of this year can only be described with one word, and that is growth. We are launching now in new countries in Europe like Serbia, for example, in the Asian region, with New Zealand, in Latin America, Guatemala, so we're adding more and more partnerships in these countries. This is on the one hand. On the other hand, it is technologies, right? We're looking at, okay, what's the direction where these technologies have to go, and we just want to follow the roadmap of our ISPs to enable them with the right tools and solutions. And for this, of course, we are onboarding new members, new countries, new partners needs. We need the people also ensuring the right service and the quality, right? We are expanding right now our portfolios. We need the people developing it and improve our solutions. So all in all, these are very exciting times for us. It sounds like it. Yeah, it sounds like you are very well positioned and prepared, not only with your growing team, but also your focus on innovation. So we commend you for that and congratulations. And I'm sure that our viewers are going to want to hear more, learn more, potentially connect with you directly. How can they do that? Yeah, I'm glad that you're asking. We are right now at IDW. And we happen to have a virtual booth at IDW, right? So on the website where you're looking at right now, you can probably just type in Moco and you will find our virtual exhibition place over there. So feel free to lock us up, reach out to us. We also have a bi-weekly smart home industry newsletter. If you're interested in industry insights and resources, and of course, also updates of Moco, feel free to subscribe there. Or look me up on LinkedIn. There's only one Eric Ackner in the world, so it should be quite easy to find you. Very fortunate. Only one Eric Ackner in the world. So everyone can find you easily and find Moco obviously online and through your virtual booth at IDW. We look forward to it. We look forward to hearing more from you in the future, Eric. And thank you for joining us today. We appreciate your time. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts. Happy networking. Thank you very much. Goodbye. Thank you.