TEGO ’ S FOUNDER AND CEO Tim Butler describes himself as a “ serial entrepreneur ”, inspired to set up Tego ( his third company ) following three decades in the world of tech . Butler witnessed the transition from mainframe computers to green screens and distributed computing , with systems across the globe changing the way the world was working . “ We saw a similar transition beginning to happen with ‘ things ’ in the same way it happened for people and processes ,” says Butler . “ One of the big challenges in that process was the ability to have information distributed , whether that ’ s on your phone , tablet or PC , wherever you may be . Today , that change for things is embodied by the Internet of Things ( IoT ). Our view was that for things to do that , it ’ s not enough to have a dumb green screen or a sensor throwing more information back at a cloud ; you need to actually have smart assets so things have real data and information which people and systems can interact with , both at the edge and in the cloud , to make better decisions and be more efficient .” Tego designed and built the first fully passive UHF RFID – a tagging device that can hold thousands-times more information and , asserts Butler , really enable an asset to be truly smart while continuing to grow information as people and systems read information from it and write information to it throughout its life . “ We ’ ve started the revolution to enable the asset to tell its story ,” he explains . “ Some assets travel
28 April 2018