ZettaScale

It often takes a complex problem to realise that the available solutions are inadequate. While some companies are comfortable with quick fixes and precarious workarounds, others cannot abide. ZettaScale was founded on the idea that technological challenges are meant to be identified, assessed and successfully overcome. 

When our team saw a persistent problem with the communication protocols on the market—an issue that many recognised but few were keen to change—we put together a talented group of rebels to develop a powerful solution that would rule them all.

Our story began in 2008 with Connected Boulevard, a project in Nice, France, to build one of the world’s first smart cities. We worked with other partners to develop the overall system. This happened again over the course of the Smart Nation Singapore project and the Fog Platform project in Barcelona. 

In each one of these cases, teams were tasked with connecting a wide range of dissimilar technologies to allow the data to flow end-to-end. Sometimes this required communication from the data center all the way down to the microcontroller. The process was lengthy and laborious. 

Certain protocols operated efficiently in high-power networks but not low-power counterparts. Others required broken semantics to communicate over the internet. Scalability and devices on duty cycles posed additional problems. Without a technology capable of spanning across the spectrum of networks and systems, building a solution required a jigsaw puzzle approach with a lot of stitching and duct taping to make it all work.

Each project partner experienced the challenges of building smart, connected cities. A small but mighty group decided to do something about it. In May 2022, ZettaScale was born with a mission to bring the unconstrained freedom to communicate, compute and store—anywhere, at any scale, efficiently and securely—to every connected human and machine.