establish low-power, low-data networking connections with devices across long distances, even if the devices are underground or in other hard-to-reach places.
Last year, On-Ramp’s technology was selected as one of 10 winners in the $200 million GE ecoimagination Challenge. The company also was among 30 named as “technology pioneers” by the World Economic Forum, which convenes the prominent conference of world business and economic leaders annually in Davos, Switzerland.
The company is moving to challenge some larger competitors in smart grid technology, including Silver Spring Networks and SmartSynch, now part of Itron.
“Having demonstrated the superiority of its wireless solutions in operational deployments with major utilities, On-Ramp is now positioned to scale its offering and diversify its markets,” said Don Telage, chairman of On-Ramp’s board. “Kevin’s experience, energy and demonstrated record of success make him the ideal CEO candidate to achieve these goals.”
Before joining DivX, Hell oversaw Palm branded products and wireless services as a senior vice president at Palm’s Solutions Group. Before that he was responsible for digital home products and services beyond the PC at Gateway computer.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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