Gorilla Mobile lets travelers convert

Gorilla Mobile lets travelers convert unused roaming data

Singapore’s telco market is highly competitive, with market players offering more data at cheaper rates.

With the internet as a regular part of everyone’s lives, more mobile data for consumers sounds like the right move for industry players; however, Singapore-based telco startup, Gorilla Mobile, seems to think differently.

Founded in 2019, Gorilla Mobile was initially a travel SIM card company that wanted to address the issue of unused travel roaming data for business travellers. Unused roaming data can be converted to Gorilla GO, a blockchainpowered digital token that users can use to purchase mobile services in a different city or country—perfect for business travellers who may have their trips cut short or those on multicity business trips.

The telco startup launched earlier this year, but their original plan was to launch across ASEAN last May 2020. Because of the pandemic, however, countries and borders closed, forcing Gorilla Mobile to postpone its plans.“We had to put our launch plans on hold despite having invested a considerable amount of resources. We also closed our Malaysian sales office because of extended lockdown periods in the country and to save overhead costs. We are targeting to expand to Malaysia and Thailand within the next 18 months once travel restrictions are lifted,” Gorilla Mobile Founder and CEO Xanne Leo said.

Gorilla Mobile offers a full suite of digital smart solutions tailored for today’s professionals, managers, executives and technicians, as well as local and global businesses. Singapore offers the perfect target audience for the launch, with many businesses serving the region and the world.

Customers can sign up for Gorilla Mobile’s Switch25 Mobile plan through the Gorilla Mobile website. In the coming months, we will unveil new services including a Global Roaming Travel Data SIM Card, Digital International Direct Dialing, and Global Office Telephony solutions.

Too much data

Gorilla Mobile runs on what it calls a Serviceon-Demand model, a first in the country.

According to Xanne, this model provides access to a full suite of services, anytime, without a contract, subscription fees, or activation charges. This allows users to pay only for what they use, when they use it, ensuring a fair and modular way of using and paying for mobile services.

Xanne Leo

WaveScan’s safer and smarter way for infrastructure maintenance

Dr. Kush Agarwal

Smarter cities deserve smarter solutions. That was the idea behind WaveScan, a Singapore-based deep-tech startup specialising in beamforming electromagnetics smart scanner technology with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

Founded in 2018 by Dr. Kush Agarwal, who also serves as the startup’s CEO, WaveScan’s mission is to revolutionise the way infrastructure and facilities are planned, built, and managed today.

According to Agarwal, today’s built environment sector generally uses conventional contact-based scanners, which involves manual labour for inspection and data processing. However, Agarwal argues that this process is not only time-consuming and tedious but also inhibits proactive inspection of infrastructure.

He believes that traditional non-destructive testing (NDT) technologies such as X-Ray NDT, ultrasonic NDT, eddy current NDT, and microwave GPR possess limited detection capabilities. That’s why the industry needs automation and AI-enabled scanner systems for data collection.

However, today’s data analysis is costly and the solution he came up with was to develop an end-to-end AI-enabled infrastructure maintenance solution by digitising the entire process which significantly minimises the work of professional engineers and assists them with classified defects tagged using AI algorithms in 3D scan images.

The company developed NDT scanner systems that integrate with robots for automated see-through structural inspections at two ultra-wideband frequency spectrums – lower GHz and millimetre-wave. The system is powered by WaveScan’s software platforms that use AI algorithms, enabling the user to visualise, analyze, and interact with the scan results. With WaveScan’s technology, they are able to identify sub-surface defects such as cracks, corrosion, and precursor pitting, as well as embedded structural defects such as tile disbonds, delamination, and loose or broken metal brackets for facade inspections.

Additionally, the same scanners can also be used for structural defects in metallic rebars embedded within concrete structures and indoor facility maintenance issues.

“Our solution also applies to the oil and gas, automotive, and aviation sectors for diverse structural inspections. Once the user knows the structural info of the asset, they can plan the repair work and safety measures as per the industry standards and protocols,” Agarwal added.

The company spent two years developing their scanning technology and is currently in the process of testing the drone version of their scanner for more focused applications. “The future of scanning systems is the multi-sensor approach, where few of these scientific techniques like microwave, millimetre-wave, and ultrasonic, amongst others, will merge to complement each other for diverse defect detection,” Agarwal added.