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Our mission

To empower the world to act at the speed of information.

Defense-grade foundations, commercial-ready. Illum stands on 43 granted patents in 33 countries, from filings that began in 2013, and a team with three decades across defense, intelligence and enterprise technology.

01 / Origin

Since 2013.

The first patent application was filed in October 2013, on one premise: everyone should get real-time safety information based on where they are, not a list.

02 / The core

One idea at the centre.

A place is a model you can read in four dimensions: X, Y, floor and time.

03 / Preemptive

Preemptive, not reactive.

The future of operations belongs to those who see an incident forming, not those who report it. The same intelligence that prevents risk also drives efficiency and revenue.

04 / Portfolio

43 patents, 33 countries.

Defense-grade foundations, commercial-ready: granted in the United States and 32 other countries, from filings that began in 2013.

05 / Foundation

A foundation to license.

Illum’s core technology can be licensed, embedded and customized across industries through partnership and joint development.

“Most platforms simulate the world. We mirror it, live, so people can act at the speed of information, not the speed of reports.”

John South

Founder, Chairman and CEO, Tezzeract

Our ethos

Technology for a safer today, with people making the call.

As more decisions move to machines, we build so people stay in them. Illum puts clear information in front of the people responsible for others, and they make the call.

Intellectual property

A patented foundation, built since 2013.

Granted patents, 2 more pending

Geofencing and location-based alerts

Two-way safety messaging

BLE beacon location sensing

Multi-floor 3D mapping

First filed October 2013

US and 32 other countries

PATENT NUMBERS

United States: 9,247,408; 9,572,002; 9,794,755; 9,980,137; 10,097,980; 10,257,663; 10,382,936; 10,582,385; 10,863,317; 11,778,443. European patent EP 3 061 274, validated in Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Sweden and Turkey. National grants: United Arab Emirates 6349; Canada 2,927,122; China ZL 201480058226.5; India 476870; Mexico 363468; Singapore 11201603128Y. Additional applications are pending.

Leadership

Leadership and advisors.

John South

Founder, Chairman & CEO

Defense and intelligence executive with a 30-year career managing $10B+ programs and multi-billion-dollar contracts across DoD, DoS and the intelligence community, including roles as Senior VP at DynCorp and CEO of Aegis. More than a decade of R&D behind the company’s patent portfolio.

John Oswald

Board Director

Vice-Chairman and co-founder of SecuraCapital Partners, and President and CEO of Capital Trust Group. Has advised on private equity, mezzanine financing and cross-border transactions from $10M to $1B, following earlier roles as a CPA at Arthur Andersen and partner at Day & Lord.

Ankit Mehra

Board Director

Founder and CEO of TechRBM and UnityIQ.ai, and co-founder of GooruAI, building enterprise platforms in artificial intelligence, cloud engineering and advanced analytics. Since founding TechRBM in 2012, he has grown it into a trusted enterprise technology partner for global clients.

Manoj Kumar

CTO, TechRBM

Enterprise architect and AI platform leader with 20+ years designing large-scale systems across government, healthcare and finance. Leads global engineering at TechRBM and supports Tezzeract’s spatial AI platform architecture and overseas delivery roadmap.

Job Tucker

Strategic Advisor

Telecom and distribution strategist who scaled national retail channel networks exceeding 100,000 locations for Boost Mobile, TracFone Wireless and Simple Mobile, generating billions in revenue and millions of subscriber activations.

Mike Woster

Strategic Advisor

Chief Revenue Officer and founding executive of the Linux Foundation, where he built key business units and helped launch the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, PyTorch Foundation and LF Networking. MBA, Northwestern Kellogg; B.S. Computer Science, Texas A&M.