Company Research Report: reelyActive

Company Overview

• Name: reelyActive

• Mission: To put ambient data to work in order to enrich the human experience.

• Founded: 2012 by Jeffrey Dungen, Pier-Olivier Genest, and Traian Antonescu

• Key People:

• Jeffrey Dungen - Co-founder and CEO

• Benoît - Chief Operating Officer

• James - Developer

• Bill - Advisor

• JP - Advisor

• Headquarters: Montréal, Canada

• Number of Employees: No information is available

• Revenue: No information is available

• Known For: Developing open source technologies for making any physical space context-aware through the capture of ambient data using interoperable IoT solutions.

Products

Pareto Anywhere

• Description: An open source IoT middleware that transforms the ambient data from devices and infrastructure already present in any physical space into a real-time stream of who/what is where/how.

• Key Features:

• Privacy-preserving data processing

• Compatibility with any radio-identifiable thing/device

• Integration with existing infrastructures

• Highly modular and written in Node.js

DirAct

• Description: Open source embedded software designed for detecting real-time proximity interactions.

• Key Features:

• Device-agnostic, operates on various Bluetooth devices

• Represents location as meaningful interactions

Ambient Data Gateways

• Components:

• Reelceiver: Modular, daisy-chainable gateways that support Bluetooth Low Energy and sub-GHz active RFID.

• Owl-in-One: Adds WiFi and Ethernet connectivity to reelceiver modules.

• Purpose: To capture and relay ambient data effectively over long distances.

Showcase Kit

• Description: Includes Pareto Anywhere, DirAct, ambient data gateways, and provides 10 hours of expertise to evaluate use cases in a plug-and-play format.

Recent Developments

• New Products:

• Pareto Anywhere for Azure, created in collaboration with HPE Aruba Networking and Microsoft to enhance IoT data handling into Azure cloud solutions.

• New Features: No information is available

• New Partnerships: Collaboration with HPE Aruba Networking and Microsoft to facilitate IoT workload migrations to Microsoft Azure.

• Recognition: Received Entergy Supplier Award in 2024 for innovation in wireless sensing for nuclear power plants.

This report presents a comprehensive overview of reelyActive, focusing on its innovative contributions to the IoT space through its open source platforms which allow for extensive interoperability of technologies within context-aware physical spaces. The company maintains a strong emphasis on privacy-preserving practices while enabling dynamic interactions between physical and digital environments.