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Helping Utilities Utilize Wasted Data with Sean Murphy of PingThings

Jul 22, 2022

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Hello everyone and welcome back to CleanTechies the Podcast. This is episode 55.

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Today our episode is with Sean Murphy the CEO of PingThings. Ping things is, in technical terms, the world's fastest nanosecond-precise time series analysis and AI platform. To translate that, they are able to analyze vast amounts of data very quickly. The application they are focused on currently is for utilities and grid operators. Specifically, transmission lines have a lot of sensors that are not used because most utilities didn't have the ability to actually read and utilize the data collected. With their technology, they are now able to do this and it can have massive impacts on the grid and on climate change.

As usual, we discussed a wide range of topics including, his inspiration to become an entrepreneur, how the tech works, future trends, a misalignment of incentives among utilities, and education.

Really fun conversation today. Enjoy!

Main Talking Points:

Intro to Sean
Impetus for becoming an entrepreneur
How to navigate early career with entrepreneurial tendencies
What is PingThings
How did they decide on what industry to support
Visualizing what they do
How they achieve this
Use cases & applications
How it impacts climate
An electrical engineering lesson
Solutions for this grid problem
Any hardware required
Future trends
Regulatory landscape
Misalignment of incentives
Advice to young professionals
Hiring - what they look for
College systems
Do we need more STEM
Wrapping up

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