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About Us
SynapSense Corporation provides complete wireless instrumentation solutions that offer energy efficiency and carbon footprint reduction for the world’s leading data centers and enterprises.
The company was founded in May 2006 by Peter Van Deventer and Dr. Raju Pandey, and is venture-backed by American River Ventures, Emerald Technology Ventures, Sequoia Capital, DFJ Frontier, and Nth Power.
The SynapSense Solution is comprised of a complete hardware and software set that enables a robust sensor net platform and extensive customer applications. It provides data center operators up granular visibility and monitoring, and real-time data, which can enable energy savings of up to 20%. It provides new data intelligence, triangulation and tools to monitor and react to actual data center conditions.
SynapSense leverages existing sensor net industry investments, utilizing best-in-class hardware from identified partners, and building upon that with internally developed sensing platforms and software applications.
Our History
SynapSense Corporation was founded by Peter Van Deventer and Dr. Raju Pandey in March of 2006. Starting in 2003, Dr. Pandey evaluated different wireless sensor networking software architecture solutions, while looking for a platform to develop an extensible, scalable applications environment. The result of this evaluation was that none of these solutions offered the features desired. Subsequently, Dr. Pandey developed a new, next generation wireless sensor network architecture over the next 2-1/2 years at the University of California Davis. The platform development is in part funded by the National Science Foundation. The core software technology for the platform has been transferred into the SynapSense Corporation.
Peter Van Deventer was a leading global sales and marketing executive with Intel Corporation, and was intimately involved in the market ramps of servers, processors, datacenters, wi-fi and cellular markets on a global scale. While at Intel, he had expansive insights into the emerging wireless technologies being developed by the world’s leading research groups, ranging from UWB to Wimax to Wireless Sensor Networks. Both Pete and Raju saw the coming ramp of the wireless sensor networking market and established early positions of expertise, and subsequently, have created a company that is providing next-generation solutions for customers around the world.
Market
The market for wireless sensor networks and solutions is the result of a new convergence of the instrumentation and information technology markets, as they both are enabling a new "edge" made possible by the introduction of low-power, low-data-rate battery powered radio devices. These devices, which contain a battery, microcontroller, standardized radio and often a MEMS-based sensor, are capable of sensing, computing, and communicating the resulting information, in an extremely efficient fashion. Environments range from data centers to warehouses and literally anywhere there is a gap in instrumentation, metrology and response.
Utility Partners
SynapSense has established strategic partnerships to support the development of a data center energy audit protocol. This protocol would enable and incentivize energy conservation programs. We are proactively engaged with PG&E, SMUD and other energy utilities to earn approval for energy conservation subsidies. SynapSense is also collaborating with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group in support of their initiative to develop ‘best methods and practices’ to save energy and support other green or cleantech programs. See Our Partners to learn more.
Contact Us
SynapSense Corporation
2365 Iron Point Road, Suite 100
Folsom, CA 95630
Main Phone: (916) 294-0110
Email: info@synapsense.com