Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Triax CEO Robert Costantini (Part 1)

Triax has seen tremendous acceleration due to Covid for its wearables-based IoT technology. Interesting perspective.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Triax.

Robert Constantini: I’m the CEO of Triax Technologies for 18 months since the fall of 2019, right before COVID. My background is in Finance and Law. I’ve got 30 years of broad executive experience in public and private companies, mostly in high-growth technology and industrial companies. Early on, I developed a passion for technology. That goes way back.

I saw a powerful way to democratize the ability to generate and manipulate data on different platforms away from legacy mainframe environments that were prevalent at that time. With that background, I’ve also worked in IoT-focused tech companies for about two decades. My experience in Finance has taken me to industries from banking, to video streaming and satellite communications.

Generally, I like to be part of enterprises that are scaling with creative solutions that address challenges and problems. I find it highly-motivating from a career and personal engagement perspective. Over that tenure, one realization that most people don’t understand is that there is no one-size-fits-all and the success hinges on bringing many connectivity options considering that many tradeoffs that the technology requires in terms of robustness, power management, form factor, ease-of-use, and ruggedness.

That brings me full circle to what attracted me to Triax. It’s the unique way that the company navigated those tradeoffs by building robust, localized networks that focus on solving problems that required hard-to-reach data. It was hard to reach either because of the difficult environments or because of the type of sensors required to gather that data. In our case, it’s the industrial wearable worker sensor. It’s the key frontier for IoT to fully live up to the promise of safety and productivity optimization capabilities across all types of job sites.

With respect to Triax, we’re a leading IoT company of wearable technologies for industrial work sites. Our mission is to transform the most challenging environments. We use innovative and practical technology automatically collecting data to keep workers safe and to optimize worker efficiency and productivity. To round out the picture a bit more, we’ve been providing this technology for three and a half years.

We have over 40 employees at this point and 200 clients. We have deployed our technology on over 440 worksites. A really powerful metric for us is that we’ve connected over 120,000 workers with our wearables allowing us to collect over 14 million man-hours of logged activity. We’ve recorded over 20 million close contact tracing interactions from workers in just the last year.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on what kind of worker data are you collecting through the wearables.

Robert Constantini: The technology provides full visibility on the work site. This allows management, in real-time and historically, to see things like safety incidences and help with other safety requirements like real-time safety alerts like pushing a button on the wearable device to calling for help. In that case, response times improve by 91%.

This segment is part 1 in the series : Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Triax CEO Robert Costantini
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