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Tendril Networks, Inc.
Tendril Service Broker
- Conference
- DEMOfall 05
- Market Segment
- Enabling technology
- Funding Details
- Venture capital and privately funded with a Series A round of $1.5 million. Funding round led by Appian Venture Partners and joined by Access Venture Partners.
- Competitors
- SensorLogic, emWare
- Product Description
- The Tendril Service Broker is a runtime software engine that bridges the gap between difficult-to-program low-power wireless mesh/sensor networks and the PC/PDA developers who wish to orchestrate the information and activity of those networks. In the market’s transition from mostly firmware tinkering to full solution deployment, the Tendril Service Broker enables dramatically reduced deployment times while saving the developing organization man-years of software development expense and providing an extensible platform.
- Market Opportunity
- OnWorld projects 4.5 million low-power wireless sensor network installations by 2010, averaging 100 nodes per network. At an average of $100 to $1,000 system software dollars per network, market size is between $450 million and $4.5 billion. According to Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, “Middleware... it’s a big opportunity.”
- DEMO Says
- The emerging field of wireless sensor networks enables an exciting range of possibilities. Tendril is the enabler technology that turns possibilities into reality. The Tendril application development environment is the critical link in moving wireless sensor networks from experimentation to mass adoption.
- Contact
- Tim Enwall
- tenwall@tendrilinc.com
- Company Address
-
1380 Forest Park Circle, Suite 130
Lafayette, CO 80026 - Primary Phone
- 303-951-4360
- Primary Fax
- 303-951-4370
- URL
- www.tendrilinc.com
- Corporate Officers
- Tim Enwall, CEO & Founder; Matthew O’Kelley, COO & Founder; Randy Willig, CTO & Founder
