Galooli is pioneering the green energy revolution using remote monitoring and management software. It provides the wireless infrastructure industry with the information it needs to maximize energy efficiency and minimize wasteful energy use at cell tower sites, data centers, central offices, and any remote requiring resiliency.
Along with providing tower companies with monitoring of entry doors, obstruction lighting, and security cameras, Galooli takes the mystery out of remote site energy management, providing real time oversight for generators, renewable energy sources, backup batteries, and AC grid usage.
The Origin Story
Galooli was co-founded in 2009 in Tel Aviv by Ronen Barel and Itamar Molchadsky, who currently lead the company as CEO and CTO, respectively. Molchadsky is a software designer and IoT expert that brought his technology wisdom to the team, while Barel brought his business and marketing knowledge.
Galooli originally provided fleet management solutions, analyzing data concerning driver behavior, fuel management, and fuel theft. Barel and Molchadsky then realized that their expertise in collecting and analyzing data could be used to provide solutions in other industries managing remote assets.
The company expanded into parts of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In Africa, for example, they saw a big need for managing diesel fuel, which led to a contract managing fuel for a multinational tower company in Africa in 2012. That in turn lead to an expansion into monitoring and analyzing all energy assets at tower sites. In June, 2020, Galooli Inc. was established as a wholly owned subsidiary with headquarters in Richardson, TX, covering the North and South American markets.
“Diesel fuel management morphed into several different applications, and became energy management, energy efficiency, and operational efficiency,” David Leclaire, Senior Vice President, North America told Inside Towers. “That’s the core of what we do.”
The Differentiator
In terms of cell towers, Galooli takes a holistic view of monitoring the energy touchpoints, whether it is backup batteries, inverters, generators, the AC grid, or possibly a solar array. “At each of those energy touchpoints you can collect data,” LeClaire said. “There are power equipment vendors and rectifier vendors that provide monitoring equipment, but nobody is looking at it from 30,000 feet like we are.”
Key to their monitoring capabilities, Galooli takes a technology agnostic approach to monitor different components in cell sites. By design, they can monitor any asset. This allows customers to make whatever choices they want to make in terms of equipment without missing a beat. Additionally, if a tower site already has monitoring equipment, the resulting data can be incorporated with other inputs in the dashboards reporting on the site. “We really just want the data,” LeClaire said.
And Galooli gets a lot of data. The company collects and monitors energy data from three billion endpoints on a daily basis from tower sites, data centers, oil and gas drilling derricks, and micro grids. The company pulls the data up to the AWS cloud and uses patent-pending artificial intelligence (AI) technology to analyze it for efficiency.
“Since we know what efficiency looks like, and we know when it is lacking,” Leclaire said, “We are focused on collecting energy data, running it through analytics, and then providing actionable information our customers need by way of dashboards and reports.” To keep that data safe, Galooli is certified ISO 27001, an internationally recognized specification for Information Security Management Systems.
Sustainability
Increased efficiency not only cuts costs, but it also translates into carbon footprint reduction. This can help carriers meet their sustainability goals. “If you talk to any CEO today, they want to learn what their carbon footprint is today and how they can reduce their carbon footprint tomorrow,” LeClaire said.
From a control perspective, Galooli can automate power systems to guarantee the lowest amount of greenhouse gas emissions. For example, the system can be automated to go back and forth between a generator and a solar array of panels, depending on the time of day, cost of energy or weather patterns.
In the Future
LeClaire envisions a future where U.S. tower companies offer power as a service to their tenants. “Tower companies are in a unique position to drive energy efficiency forward for the carriers,” LeClaire said. “Tower companies are already looking at adding micro grids in their geographical footprint with an alternative energy solution, which could easily be extended to provide power to multiple carriers.”
In the future, 1 watt to 5 megawatt microgrids will power a growing percentage of the infrastructure, from homes and electric vehicles to remote industrial sites, using alternative energy. Galooli will provide the remote monitoring and analytics that help all enterprises, as well as telecom, drive operational and energy efficiency.
Galooli will attend MWC Barcelona February 27 – March 2. You can book a meeting with them or visit them at Hall 5, Stand 5E61.
You can also arrange to speak to a Galooli team member here: https://galooli.com/contact-us/.
By J. Sharpe Smith, Inside Towers Technology Editor
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