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Redpoint Positioning gives the forklift a sixth sense
A warehouse can know where everything is and still have a collision. Redpoint Positioning closes the gap between locating a worker and making a machine react.
Merico removes the hazard. The paperwork stays for decades.
The Texas industrial contractor pairs asbestos and lead abatement with a less photogenic skill: keeping the evidence long after the crew has gone home.
Rob Palfreyman Keeps Building for the Places Technology Cannot Quite Reach
First he helped software find people when GPS disappeared indoors. Then he took on a more tactile problem: helping powered clothing understand how a body moves at work.
Relay Tried to Replace the Kids’ Phone. Frontline Workers Found the Bigger Job.
A $99 screen-free gadget for children found its real market in hotel corridors, stadium kitchens and factory floors. Relay’s second act is a useful lesson in letting an unexpected customer rewrite the pitch.
The Company That Put a Sensor on the Mousetrap
Everyone chasing smart-building glory wanted to control the thermostat. Microshare went after the mousetrap, the toilet paper roll, and the mop - and built a business on the parts of a building nobody wants to think about.
WakeCap
WakeCap is a construction-technology company that puts a small IoT sensor into standard safety helmets to give project owners live, site-wide visibility into workforce, safety, productivity and progress. Founded in 2017 by Dr. Hassan Albalawi and Ishita Sood, the company runs a wireless mesh network that works without GPS, cellular or Wi-Fi and feeds field data into a single owner's dashboard. Its technology has been deployed across roughly $80 billion of active projects - including Aramco, NEOM, Qiddiya and King Salman Park - and has tracked more than 150 million labor hours. WakeCap raised a $28M Series A in 2025 and operates from Riyadh, Dubai and San Francisco.