Industry Computer networking Headquarters New York City, Milan | Founded 2005 | |
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Key people Umberto Malesci, CEO, Cosimo Malesci, EVP Sales, Alessandro Erta, CTO, Andrea Orioli, VP Operations Parent organization Avrio Group Surveillance Solutions, LLC | ||
Fluidmesh and cisco interviews innotrans 2016
Fluidmesh Networks is a manufacturer of wireless networking products founded by four Italian engineers, Umberto Malesci, Cosimo Malesci, Andrea Orioli and Torquato Bertani in 2005 as a spin-off out of MIT, where Umberto Malesci and Cosimo Malesci were graduate students in the Department of Engineering. In 2005 Umberto Malesci was a graduate student working at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with Prof. Samuel Madden (MIT) and Fluidmesh initial software was based on the Roofnet open-source project leveraging Click Modular Router. The Company was initially incubated in the incubator of the Politecnico di Milano, in Milan, Italy. Over the years, Fluidmesh Networks grew its sales globally in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. The company obtained significant exposure on the Italian national press and television as a successful example of innovation-driven entrepreneurship in the high tech space. In ten years, Fluidmesh has sold and installed approximately 24,000 miles of wireless links
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Corporate History
The company was founded in 2005 in Cambridge, MA and in Milan, Italy. The Fluidmesh HQ moved from Boston to the Chicago area in 2011 after the acquisition by Waveland Investments and Generation 3 Capital.
Fluidmesh was a manufacturer of hardware and software for wireless point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and wireless mesh networks. Fluidmesh wireless products have been used in video-surveillance, industrial, railway and military projects. Fluidmesh used their own, proprietary Prodigy communication protocol for its point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and mesh networking products.
In 2010, Fluidmesh became partners with a leading CCTV camera manufacturer, Pelco.
In April 2011, Fluidmesh Networks announced it had been acquired by Generation 3 Capital and Waveland Investments, two private equity firms based in Chicago. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Cisco-Fluidmesh Partnership for Rail Connectivity
In 2016, Fluidmesh Networks and Cisco announced a partnership to combine Cisco Connected Rail Solutions and Fluidmesh train-to-ground wireless technology in a sole certified and validated network architecture and global offering. The goal of the Cisco-Fluidmesh partnership is supporting the rail industry in providing seamless and broadband on-board and in-station connectivity for passengers, security and rail operations. As a consequence of the collaboration with Cisco, Fluidmesh wireless products are also available also through Cisco global sales channels
WiFi and Mobile Connectivity for Trains and Railroads
Fluidmesh developed a wireless communication protocol based on MPLS with a 0 ms handoff time that Fluidmesh claims it is capable to deliver more than 100 Mbit/sec to trains travelling at 350 km/h .
Fluidmesh train-to-ground wireless technology was successfully deployed along a high speed train line between Milan and Turin in Italy with trains travelling at 300 Km/h. The goal of the wireless deployment along the Italian rail track was to provide reliable WiFi connectivity to Trenitalia high-speed rail passengers. The results of Fluidmesh high-speed train deployment has been published in the proceedings of the World Congress of Railway Research (WCRR) in 2016.
The Internet of Things for Vessels and Maritime Applications
Fluidmesh wireless products have been used to enable one of the largest-scale Internet of Things (IOT) system for the maritime industry, connecting more than 30 vessels operated by NY Waterway, a ferry company that travels on the Hudson River and East River in New York City. The Fluidmesh wireless networks provide continuous broadband connectivity to all the ferries for on-board video-surveillance, passenger entertainment, rail-time engines monitoring, voice (VOIP) communication and passengers WiFi.