The story of Infogrid, a smart building solutions company founded in 2018, is a story of noticing a single task being done inefficiently, and extrapolating it to solve a global issue.
The founder, Will Cowell de Gruchy, worked at a private equity business and was involved in conducting due diligence on businesses the firm planned to invest in or acquire. On one visit to a dairy farm targeted for investment, he noticed a sheet of paper with temperature readings recorded at the same level and weeks in advance. He wondered why capturing and tracking temperature in the facility couldn’t be automated using sensors, which would save time while also building accuracy into the process. Upon investigating, he found that, while there were commercially available sensors that could record temperature in a building, they were expensive and pushed out an endless stream of data that could not be used effectively to make intelligent decisions. That led to the vision of building sensors that were cost-effective, smart enough to provide useful data, and connected in order to allow smart management of an environment. And thus Infogrid was born.