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Connectify inc1/17/2024 ![]() ![]() “Our strategic partnership with Connectify will provide our U.S. In-Q-Tel declined to participate in an interview for this story, but an announcement statement came from William Strecker, Executive Vice President of Architecture & Engineering and CTO of IQT, in a press release. Gizis told Technically Philly earlier this month that with the investment from In-Q-Tel, technology will be developed to reinvent the Virtual Private Network. A user can easily allow other laptops, phones and portable devices-any device with WiFi connectivity-to share a single connection without a wireless router. Now we want to do commercial software,” Gizis says.Ī video of the Bombot technology can be seen below.Ĭonnectify, the company’s first commercial success, is able to turn any Windows 7 PC into wireless hotspots to be shared across devices. That was the just the beginning of the company’s work with defense and intelligence projects. They created an early consumer vision of augmented reality, which got the attention of the Air Force, though the work was ahead of its time, Gizis says. He left the company in 2002 to start Nomadio with co-founder and CEO Bhana Grover. Gizis, who is 38, has been working in technology since the 90s, when he was CEO of Group Cortex, an early website development consulting firm that was sold to AnswerThink in 1999. ![]() By 2006, some 3,000 Bombots were sent to Iraq and Afganistan. The vehicles, which can travel as fast as 35 miles per hour and which are equipped with video surveillance technology, can approach an IED, dispatch a small amount of explosives, move away from its target and detonate the IED without causing damage to itself. The company created software for reliably driving robots for miles even in the face of terrible radio interference. In 2005, Nomadio developed the technology used to control the EOD Bombot, a small, remote-controlled, unmanned vehicle used in the Middle East to disable improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. Much of its work over the last decade was in creating technology to solve “super hard” networking problems in the defense field, Gizis says. military organizations outside of Philadelphia. “I believe we saved some lives.” – Alex Gizisįor nearly 10 years, the company has been known as Nomadio, Inc., based at the Marketplace Design Center, not far from 30th Street Station, where it has had transit access to U.S. ![]()
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