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Nurses can spend an inordinate amount of time looking for equipment or medical devices such as ventilators. Asset tracking systems can help. (Photo credit: Image by Heszter via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or non-commercial purposes.)

Mesh networking tracks ventilators and other vital gear at London hospitals, but not an IoT light in sight

This time, Wirepas supplies an IT company rather than a smart lighting outfit. Once again, as lighting vendors try to morph into tech outfits, they are reminded that IT companies...

Evrythng helps retailers such as Ralph Lauren track products from manufacture through to customer sale. It’s the sort of thing that former smart technology specialist Gooee had been dabbling in. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Ralph Lauren.)

Connected SSL & Controls

Ex-Gooee boss resurfaces at a cloud computing company

Mark Halper

Gooee had morphed into a would-be IT company anyway. Now, Neil Salt can plunge right into the bits and bytes at London-based Evrythng, no lighting required.

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LEDs & SSL Design

Business moves bulk up the connected SSL and controls hit list

Carrie Meadows

We continue our analysis of top LEDs Magazine content of 2021 with four picks concentrated on connected lighting and controls business activity.

Now that smart lighting firm Gooee has pulled the plug, it’s going to have sort out its creditors. (Image credit: Graphic by ColiN00B via Pixabay; used under free license for commercial or non-commercial purposes.)

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Gooee’s creditors line up, and Aurora tops the list

Mark Halper

The now defunct IoT lighting pioneer also owes employees, the taxman, Amazon Web Services, lawyers, and technology and patent specialists, among others.

Neil Salt drove the smart lighting message harder than anyone, as he’s doing here at London’s LuxLive exhibition in November 2017. Along with Andrew Johnson and Ran Oren, he is still listed as a director at Gooee, which is in administration. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Mark Halper.)

Connected SSL & Controls

Smart lighting pioneer Gooee goes bust

Mark Halper

Once the leading voice of ‘beyond illumination,’ it could not survive several changes of direction and a dearth of deployments. The pandemic did not help. Nor did the collapse...

Jon Couch in his Gooee days before he left for enModus. He's now back in the Gooee fold, as head of product and engineering for Aurora, which is working more closely than ever with Gooee. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Mark Halper.)

Connected SSL & Controls

With powerline company enModus in protection, a key engineer rejoins the Aurora/Gooee wireless fold

Mark Halper

Smart lighting data was traveling over standard electricity cables using enModus' Wattwave, but the company's bills caught up with it. In a knock-on effect, Aurora and Gooee look...

Gooee managing director Neil Salt (right) has long been a tireless advocate of the IoT. Here he is handing out Gooee development kits back in 2016 at London’s LuxLive exhibition, before Gooee’s focus changed. With him is Jan Kemeling, Gooee’s former chief commercial officer, who left the company in January. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Mark Halper.)

Connected SSL & Controls

Gooee and Aurora are starting to look one and the same (UPDATED)

Mark Halper

In a news analysis, MARK HALPER follows the bumpy IoT road on which pioneer Gooee has lost a couple of key executives, and the two always-related companies now have identical ...