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December 1, 2011
Queralt Inc. Receives Pre-Seed Financing
Software developer offers application for real-time monitoring of physical assets and people
Rocky Hill, CT – Connecticut Innovations (CI), the state’s quasi-public authority responsible for technology-based economic development, today announced that it has committed $150,000 in financing to Queralt Inc. of North Haven, Conn., through its Pre-Seed Fund. Queralt will use the financing to hire key employees as well as secure assistance in developing certain business and technology strategies. The company has secured required matching funds from institutional investors.
Queralt is a leading developer of cloud-based applications for real-time monitoring and management of physical assets and people. The company’s iQ3 technology also enables users to actively track and monitor the environmental conditions in which they operate and work. The system works in a multitude of settings with a wide range of asset types. iQ3 systems have been installed in healthcare and medical facilities, corporate offices, manufacturing facilities, schools and government agencies.
Queralt is currently engaged in an asset tracking project for City of New Haven Public Schools. The company will install a system to monitor and control PC assets throughout the city’s network of elementary, middle and high schools. The goal of the project is to provide school administration with up-to-the-minute information on all computer assets in the school system, assure asset security, improve asset utilization and monitor operating conditions in server and wiring closets. “The world is exploding in its use of the Internet,” said Michael Queralt, co-founder and president of Queralt Inc. “and our clients have been able to harness its power to help them better manage their assets. Whether it’s the New Haven Public Schools managing their PCs or Matheson Gas managing gas cylinders, our iQ3 system provides support to manage these assets using a unique technology that requires neither physical proximity nor scanning devices.” Queralt continued, “Our cutting-edge, cloudbased solution frees up organizations to focus on their broader business and organizational goals.”
“We are excited to support Queralt’s experienced team in developing an innovative cloud-based asset and people-tracking platform,” said Charlie Moret, CI managing director, business development. “Queralt’s iQ3 technology can receive input from any data source and take real-time actions. Its potential customers range from school districts looking to track their electronic assets, to industrial companies looking to better manage logistics, and security companies handling high-value assets.” CI’s Pre-Seed Fund supports the formation of new Connecticut technology companies. The fund provides loans of up to $150,000 to Connecticut-based startup and early-stage technology companies. Funding may be used for a wide range of startup expenses such as accounting, legal, intellectual property development, technology and prototype development, business plan development, technology assessments, market analyses, market entry strategy development and hiring of advisors and employees. CI’s team also provides mentoring and will help coordinate access to resources.
The Pre-Seed Fund is an important component of the state’s high-tech economic development engine, as it provides an avenue for initial startup funding for companies and entrepreneurs emerging from universities. The fund complements other existing technology startup resources like the CTech business incubators, the Connecticut Angel Investor Tax Credit (which stimulates private investments in early-stage companies) and private capital resources.
About Connecticut Innovations Inc.
Connecticut Innovations (CI) is a quasi-public organization dedicated to driving a vibrant, entrepreneurial, technology-based economy in Connecticut. CI stimulates high-tech growth by investing in early-stage Connecticut technology companies, university/industry research collaborations and technology transfer and collaborating with government, business, nonprofit and academic organizations to advance technology growth and promote public policies consistent with CI’s mission. For more information on CI, please visit www.ctinnovations.com.
About Queralt Inc.
Queralt Inc. is a privately held software development company located in North Haven, Conn., that has a growing list of customers in the industrial, financial, security, manufacturing and service industries, as well as in healthcare, educational and governmental organizations. For further information on Queralt Inc., please visit www.QueraltInc.com.
June 29, 2011
Queralt Inc commemorates the fourth anniversary of the iPhone by making iQ3 compatible on iOs devices
North Haven, CT – Queralt, INC., a leading developer of value-based RFID and sensor technology applications, joins the celebration of the iPhone’s fourth anniversary by announcing the release of a cloud based management, tracking, and notification application for use on iOS devices. Queralt’s iQ3 brand has expanded to support the accessing of the iQ3 system through the iPhone and iPad’s internet browsers.
This is made possible by the fact that iQ3 requires only a web browser to access its real-time dashboard, analytics and all events and notifications without the need for any third party plugins. Therefore, clients looking to access iQ3 can do so from their iOS devices’ native web application rather than through the downloading of another application, making it free and easy to use.
“With the increasing popularity of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets the move to support iOS devices is especially beneficial to our customers” commented Steven Abbagnaro, CSA. “This gives clients the ability to monitor and track their assets wirelessly as well as receive important notifications and alerts when events of interest take place, essentially taking the power of iQ3 with them on the go” added Abbagnaro.
Queralt’s iQ3 system technology can actively track and monitor physical assets and people, as well as the environmental conditions in which they operate and work through cloud-based, Real-Time Location System (RTLS) solutions using RFID and sensor technology. This system, which is already so easy to access and use through a standard web browser, is now literally at the fingertips of any customer using an iOS device user.
June 20, 2011
PAUL A. STRASSMANN JOINS QUERALT, INC. AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
North Haven, CT – Michael Queralt, CEO of Queralt, Inc., a leading developer of cloud-based RFID tracking systems, announced today that Paul A. Strassmann – former Director of Defense Information of the Department of Defense, former CIO of corporations such as Xerox and General Foods, and former Acting CIO of NASA – has joined the company as its new Chairman of the Board. “Paul Strassmann is both a leading visionary and brilliant pragmatist in the world of information technology. We are pleased to have him join our company as Chairman as we continue to rapidly expand,” said Queralt.
Strassmann has an illustrious career spanning 56 years in the information technology field. In 1997, he was named to the CIO Hall of Fame by CIO Magazine as one of the twelve most influential CIOs of the decade. “He is recognized as an influential IT developer whose ideas have been the cornerstones for successful businesses,” said Dean Lloyd Griffiths when Strassmann joined the School of Information Technology & Engineering at George Mason University where he is a distinguished professor of information sciences.
“The world is exploding in its use of the Internet,” said Strassmann.” There is a shift taking place from an Internet of people to an Internet of people and objects. Queralt is a company focused on providing support to manage these valuable assets using a unique technology that jumps over the limitations requiring physical proximity and scanning devices. Its cutting-edge design as a cloud-based solution,” he continued, “frees up organizations to focus on their top priority to profitably manage their business. With a winning program and management team, I expect Queralt to become a very successful enterprise.”
Queralt’s RFID/sensor technology uses cloud-based Internet services with a user-friendly dashboard, or graphical interface, to provide real-time tracking of high value physical assets, including personnel. It provides the needed security for large organizations to protect their investments and people, reduce costs, and increase productivity and profits.
Queralt, founded in 2006, has a growing list of customers that include corporations in the industrial, financial, security, manufacturing and service industries, as well as education and healthcare organizations, and U.S. government agencies like the Department of Defense, Homeland Security and the National Institute of Health.
June 8, 2011
Queralt, Inc. completes a time study of 250 employees in support of the Fair labor Law using RFID passive tag technology.
North Haven, CT – Queralt, Inc a leading developer of value-based RFID and sensor technology applications, announced that it has successfully conducted a time and motion study using RFID technology in accommodation of the Fair Labor and Standards Act.
The study investigated the time it took factory employees to walk to and from their workstations. Queralt Inc. conducted the study using passive RFID technology. The study was conducted in a two day period. One day to plan out the placement of RFID readers and another day to conduct the actual study, using Queralt’s IQ3 framework to gather and report on a real time basis the information recorded by the implemented the solution.
Factory workers, approximately 250 of them, were provided a unique RFID tag when they started their 8-hour shift, which was then collected at the end of their shift. By passing through key choke point locations a passive reader detected their start time and then upon reaching their work station another reader detected that time.
Queralt Inc.’s inventive RFID solution proved to be an extremely effective way to track employee movements during their work shift and provide measurements of their travel times. Queralt software used the data generated from the study to perform valuable analytics that in the future can be used to increase production and employee efficiency.
The system used in this study is good for temporary basis situations given its quick install and breakdown. The use of passive RFID tags, rather than the more costly battery powered ‘active’ tags makes Queralt’s RFID technology solutions relatively inexpensive for any client looking to conduct such a study. This easily adaptable model can be used in the investigation of virtually any situation.
Wage and hour lawsuits under the fair labor law are on the rise and time and motion studies of employees, such as this one conducted by Queralt Inc., can help to ensure that employers are in compliance with labor laws. Studies using RFID technology solutions developed by Queralt Inc., can protect against possible wage and hour violations as well as investigate if any violations may have occurred by recording actual time worked, and using real-time reporting to let one monitor actual employee time patterns.
June 8, 2011
Queralt Inc. Joins DASH7 Alliance
Company to promote DASH7 development and integrate the technology into its value-based RFID tracking and sensor technology solutions.
North Haven, CT. – June, 2011 –, Queralt, INC., a leading developer of value-based RFID and sensor technology applications, today announced its membership in the DASH7 Alliance, a non-profit industry consortium that promotes the use of the ISO 18000-7 (DASH7) standard for wireless sensor networking. As a member of the DASH7 Alliance, Queralt, INC. will work with more than 50 member organizations around the world to advance development of the DASH7 standard as well as integrate DASH7 technology into its latest global products. DASH7 is a wireless sensor networking technology that evolved from the radio-frequency identification and sensing technologies used in the defense industry.
With Queralt’s membership in the DASH7 Alliance, the company will have access to the latest DASH7 specifications, working group activities, and opportunities to exchange ideas and insights among various member groups in similar and varying vertical markets.
“We look forward to incorporating the technology of the DASH-7 alliance into our current framework and applications,” said Michael Queralt, Queralt Inc. CEO. “Especially in our cloud-based solutions for people tracking, elder care, security, and asset management.”
DASH7 technology will be implemented into Queralt Inc’s people tracking and high value security application solutions. DASH7 compliant solutions will be deployed in manufacturing, distribution, and museums, just to mention a few. Queralt Inc’s support of the DASH7 alliance will be a crucial component of continuing their technology diagnostic approach.
“We are thrilled to add Queralt’s expertise in value-based RFID and sensor technology applications to the DASH7 Alliance,” said Patrick Burns, DASH7 Alliance President. “Queralt makes use of multiple RFID, GPS and sensor technologies in the development of their real-time tracking solutions and their involvement is a great boost to our efforts to make DASH7 the global standard for low-powered wireless sensor networking technology.”
About the DASH7 Alliance
Formed in 2009, the DASH7 Alliance is a non-profit industry consortium with more than 50 participants that promotes the use of the ISO 18000-7 standard for wireless sensor networking. Participating organizations include Agaidi Oy, Analog Devices, Aniden Interactive, Arira Design, Cambridge University, CaptureTags, Chung Nam Electronics, Confidex, Cubic, Damco, DH Technology, Dow, Evigia Systems, Guard RFID, Identec Solutions, Indigresso, Infinite Power Solutions, Lockheed Martin, Lyngsoe Systems, Melexis, MET Laboratories, Michelin, National Instruments, Nedap, North Dakota State University, Novitaz, Odette, OnAssetIntelligence, Pusan National University, Ramtron, Revere Security, Semtech, Savi Technology, Security Innovation, SkyBitz, System Planning Corporation, Syrma, Texas Instruments, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Wisconsin, and VI Service Network. Membership is open to end users, technology providers and research organizations. For more information, please visit: www.dash7.org.
April 15, 2011
Queralt introduces Cloud based RFID framework through iQ3
New software to help clients accelerate adoption and quickly realize the benefits of RFID by employing a cloud computing framework.
North Haven, CT – Queralt, Inc today introduced new software that helps companies explore and accelerate the use of RFID by employing cloud computing.
The new offering helps clients create RFID and sensor networks connected to the cloud, leveraging Queralt’s new application. Queralt’s approach is bringing smart automation and standardization to Active RFID, Passive RFID and other wireless sensors, minimizing human interaction and manual labor out of the equation. This unique approach lowers the risks of deployments’, and provides higher confidence in the desired outcome by allowing customers to consume the technology that they need, based on results and their requirements.
For the first time, clients will be able to use a simple Web-based interface to easily track their assets, monitor their activity and receive intelligent notifications, all while enjoying the flexibility, security and the scalability of cloud services, allowing them to focus on the results of the technology and not on the requirements to support the infrastructure that RFID and sensors requires.
“Our new platform, iQ3 is an enabler for clients to use RFID technology and consume as much as they need, lowering the entry barriers that an RFID deployment requires. Our only requirement is to have an internet connection for the readers, once deployed they automatically connect into the cloud, and customers can start using the data by connecting to the application via a Web browser” said Michael Queralt, CEO of Queralt, Inc. “Our approach is unique, as we were not encumbered by an old application, therefore we build this patent pending framework from the bottom up to leverage the latest web technologies, creating an intuitive user experience, with strong analytics and complex real time decision and notification engines”
With this new offering, Queralt now provides a single platform that enables users to provision and deploy an RFID solution rapidly. The technology accepts information from multiple RFID technologies and wireless sensors, making decisions in the cloud across multiple systems in a simple and repeatable fashion. This will allow businesses to respond quickly to new requests for services from their customers, and rapidly deploy new applications that will increase revenue and deliver greater customer satisfaction.
“Currently., our customers and partners are using the technology to perform time and motion studies, track people during events, gain visibility to their many points of their supply chain, track documents and secure high value assets.”..highlighted John Vansteenburgh, COO of Queralt Inc.
April 1, 2011
Queralt, Inc. enhances executive team as it prepares for major cloud-based product launch.
John Marchese, joins Queralt, Inc. as Chief Technology Officer to accelerate its leadership in the cloud RFID solutions market.
North Haven , CT – John Marchese, a well-known and successful executive in the technology space, joins Queralt, Inc. as CTO to accelerate Queralt’s traction in the deployment of cloud based- intelligent decision engines, utilizing RFID and Wireless Sensors as acquisition points.
Over the last few years, Queralt has solidified its position as a provider of leading edge RFID based solutions, which is highlighted by the introduction of its cloud-based RFID product launch under the iQ3 brand. The new iQ3 platform complements the well-established consulting and implementation services that have helped many organizations over the past four years adopt RFID solutions for people tracking, inventory management , security and asset management. .
“Marchese’s proven track record and recognition within the industry is the boost that Queralt seeks to dominate the cloud RFID solution space”, states John VanSteenburgh, Queralt’s COO
“Queralt’s impressive growth, thanks to its risk taking, vision and customer focus is a great baseline from which to accelerate”, says John Marchese. “Customer traction and partner acceptance are the best indicators that Queralt’s value proposition is reaching a tipping point, and I am glad to join the organization at this point in its evolution, so I can help Queralt to consolidate its position as a leader in the market.”
John brings years of experience in the IT field from United Technologies Corporation, where he managed implementation projects and focused on customer relationships. John holds a degree in Business and Technology from the University of Connecticut. His passion for technology will immensely help Queralt’s offerings and bring customers to the next level with cloud based RFID solutions based on the new iQ3 platform.
June 7, 2010
Queralt LLC to Conduct Innovative Patient-Care Time & Motion Behavior Analytical Studies for Hartford Medical Group
Studies will allow HMG to identify opportunities for continued process improvement to increase patient satisfaction and value while reducing operating costs.
Queralt, LLC., a leading developer of value-based RFID technology applications announced that it has been engaged to provide analytical services to Hartford Medical Group (HMG), to assist in understanding time and motion behaviors of providers and patients during the primary care visit. The technology and respective reports allow HMG to identify opportunities for continued process improvement, to increase patient satisfaction and value and improve operational efficiency within the practice. Based on the positive results from the initial pilot, HMG decided to expand the study to the rest of the practices. Read More…
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Queralt gets DHS funds for RFID tracking tech
Queralt LLC, a Connecticut-based maker of radio frequency identification products for commercial applications, has landed its first Small Business Innovation Research grant through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The award builds on the three year-old Wallingford company’s radio frequency identification technology, as well as an integrated element of behavioral learning that allows the system to “learn” a person’s or asset’s habits over time. Read More…
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