VoltServer adds a data layer to electricity distribution in a move that could help smart grid rollout

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Stephen Eaves, the chief executive of a new startup that promises to overlay data on electricity distribution, has spent years developing
devices to install in central offices and cell towers and conducted early work on electric vehicle development.His goal, Eaves says, was to
Eaves makes transmission safer by breaking electrical distribution into packets; those packets are sent down transmission lines to ensure
that there are not faults
transmitter breaks the electricity into packets and the receiver takes the packets and puts them back together and distributes it as regular
And the traction was enough to attract the attention of Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs, which led a recent $7.4 million financing into
the company
To date, the company has raised $18 million from a clutch of investors, including: Marker Hill Capital, Slater Technology Fund, Natural
agriculture, according to Eaves
cost for power transmission in a stadium
Traditional power transmission can cost roughly $36 per linear foot, while VoltServer can cut that cost to less than $10 per foot, according
distribution
chairman and chief executive, Dan Doctoroff in a statement
buildings more affordable and flexible
these kinds of distribution and transmission technologies are a critical component of the next generation of grid technologies needed to