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Florida, March 31, 2015. Energy Control Technologies, Inc. (ECT) is
announcing today that it has officially formed a new company called
sensorFact Services, Inc. (sensorFact) in an effort to allow their
newly formed cloud-based services group to better focus on
its targeted market, the emerging Internet of Things (IoT).
“sensorFact is a significantly different business and marketing model
from the core business we started in 1983.” said Richard Combs
P.E., who is President and founder of ECT. “We want to ensure that
sensorFact is able to succeed by allowing it to purely focus on its subscription based services and engage in marketing of its
brand outside the box of a traditional facility automation engineering
firm.”
The company will be led by its new President, Matt Horton, a 27 year
technology veteran holding extensive experience in Internet start-ups;
with the most recent 12 years held in the Building and Automation
Controls segment. The company also names Rena Hafer to the position of
Vice President of Operations. “These two have a unique blend of
technology experience and business acumen that makes for a winning
dynamic.” Combs explained. “The choice of these appointments was not
difficult.”
During a two-year incubation period, the sensorFact team worked to
solve many problems around data acquisition, monitoring, and analysis
faced by ECT’s existing customer base. Horton says “After succeeding in
developing a cloud-based solution that seems to satisfy the current
customer demand, and offers so much opportunity for future growth, we
felt the timing was appropriate to spin-off now in order to establish
the dedicated operations necessary to grow the business. Cultivating
this business with a live captive customer base has been a truly unique
opportunity. In the last two years, we prototyped the solution with
several different languages and architectures, using a few different
cloud service platforms. There was one particular combination
that excelled completely, and we built on that one. Based on this
testing, what we built distinctively will keep us competitive, even as
the entire IoT market expands its reach. We’re excited by the
realization this opportunity brings, of being at the right place at the
right time.”
sensorFact Services, Inc. will now begin working to open its platform’s
API, which will allow anyone to stream in sensor data. At the moment,
sensorFact offers its subscription services through negotiated
contracts, but is developing a self-service web
application for direct use of its trademarked “pointCollex” data
acquisition technology. “Once users are able to sign themselves up and
utilize the service on their own, we will issue another announcement
and with corresponding pricing at that time”, said Hafer. “We expect
the pricing for basic services to be something around ten dollars per
month.”
[an error occurred while processing this directive]The sensorFact stated mission: “Our mission is to solve the problems
that create the barriers around storing and sharing sensor data, and to
provide these solutions at a reasonable cost while advocating for the
data owner. We will accomplish this mission by means of secure and
robust technology. We will maintain relevance through exceptional
customer service and ubiquitous integration opportunities. Our strength
comes from employing the most talented workers, and fostering their
personal growth and innovation.”
To learn more about sensorFact Services, Inc., please visit www.sensorFact.com
To learn more about Energy Control Technologies, visit www.energycontrol.com
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