The San Francisco startup company will display their products on Tuesday, they plan to help customers in warehouses, factories and hospitals to monitor a variety of activities and the surrounding environment. Samsara has attracted a lot of attention because the founder of the company ever founded a startup Meraki wireless communication, 2012 after selling for $ 1.2 billion to Cisco. Another unique factor is money: the company from prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has received $ 25 million in financing.
Samsara's announcement reflects a wide swath of Internet business. Early Internet businesses focused on fitness bracelets and children's consumer products such as monitors, but more and more companies are starting to use Internet technologies to solve business problems, including Building Robotics, Electric Imp, Helium and Meshify Systems. As with Samsara, these businesses through the integration of hardware, software and Internet services into this market.
"We attach great importance to this market, can be engaged in something that would have a significant impact on business. "Samsara financier Marc Andreessen (Marc Andreessen) said.
Andreessen Horowitz investment institutions isn't the only bet on the field. According to the United States venture capital research firm CB Insights November this year measured from 2010 to the end of September this year, 887 IOT related financing transactions, totalling more than $ 7.4 billion.
They are seeking a substantial high growth opportunities. United States market-research firm Gartner expects Internet professional services spending this year alone will reach $ 17.8 billion in 2014, representing a growth of 22%.
Established companies in the Internet field and entrepreneurial companies to maintain the same activity. Includes Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Cisco, General Electric and IBM.
The sensor and surveillance systems is not new, many companies in mining, utilities and oil exploration industries have deployed similar technology.
However, Samsara and co-founder sajite·bisiwosi (Sanjit Biswas) said the deployment of such systems cost very high, could reach 50,000 to millions of dollars. In addition to the costs of purchasing hardware and sensors (hardware that often need wiring), companies also need to hire engineers to design and operate these networks.
Samsara products contain can track temperature, humidity, vibration and position sensors, over a wireless network connected to the gateway device, sensor data transmitted through the Internet. Gateway can access Wi-Fi or cellular network--Samsara has been with 150 countries or operators in the area of cooperation. Sensor data can be transferred to the Samsara's cloud, allowing users to monitor and manage their networks.
Voss said, these data can be used to track the convoy, monitoring shipping in the product if there are any abnormal vibration, and keep an eye on energy consumption.
Samsara hardware fee: US $ 99-499, per device using software and services every year to pay some of the costs. The company said, to build a monitor pump system needs about $ 43,000, use 50 gateway devices and 50 sensors. Voss, estimated that cost of using traditional methods of building this type of system is probably a figure of 5 times to 10 times.
Another San Francisco startup Rival Helium Systems product plans were also announced in October of this year. Similar to the Samsara, the company also developed their own wireless technologies, and provides sensors and cloud-computing services, specialized monitoring hospitals and commercial refrigeration equipment – the latter needs to ensure that the temperature does not drop to an unsafe level.
Founded by Shawn Fanning (Shawn Fanning) co-founder, who had also founded the music-sharing service Napster. President and COO of the company Luobu·qiandehuoke (Rob Chandhok) former Qualcomm Executive. Helium has been by Khosla Ventures and Salesforce.com CEO make·benniaofu (Marc Benioff) and other investors to raise $ 16 million.
Voss was not worried about the competition. While the market is crowded, but he and other Internet entrepreneurs are considered, the capacity of the market to support the common development of multiple vendors.
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