Infrax Systems Inc. $IFXY
Infrax Secure Intelligent Energy Platform (SIEP) ™.
Over the last several quarters, Infrax has been developing the company's flagship product - Secure Network Interface Card (SNIC) for electric meters.
1,950,000,000 shares authorized
1,170,535,262 and 925,518,595 shares issued and outstanding, respectively
no convertibles. clean L2
Our Business
INFRAX is a pioneer designer, developer, systems integrator and manufacturer of turnkey secure solutions for the utility industry. We are a provider of unique secure, cost-efficient solutions that provide everything required to bring the utility's technological platform into the 21st. century. Our SIEP™ platform provides: 1) Network Transport and Management (secure 2 way communications), 2) Secure Smart Devices (Smart Meters), and 3) Asset management, Grid Optimization and Security, all in an integrated state-of-the-art Smart Grid solution that truly provides our customers with end to end grid management capability.
We believe our Secure Integrated Platform will facilitate and hasten the deployment of Smart Grid technology among resource constrained small and mid-sized utilities. INFRAX' advantage comes from our advanced patented technologies, which provide a highly secure, reliable platform that allows two-way communication with our Secure Intelligent Endpoint Devices for Advanced Metering Infrastructure and Substations applications.
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Based on our review of the Smart Grid related products against which the Secure Intelligent Energy Platform now competes, we believe that none of them provide the required encryption and threat detection capabilities required to secure the energy grid.
The Utility industry's aggressive deployment of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and data management devices has led to the accelerated reliance on fiber optic communications to many of the key substations. However, the existing utility networks cannot provide the security, reliability and connectivity to extend the reach to the consumer locations.
Today's evolution of Smart Grid design and implementations actually began several years prior to the current initiatives. The same applies to the products designed by most of the major players including Itron, Silver Spring and GridPoint. Although the current security initiatives and elected officials have good intentions, they have missed the window of opportunity to truly integrate security from the beginning by several years. Similar to the credit card industry, banking, health care, and most other industries that conduct business online, the next electrical infrastructure will need to feature security as an add-on that is applied after the Smart Grid is implemented.
Recently discovered vulnerabilities in smart meters have been identified that could allow an attacker to obtain complete control of the meters. Specifically, an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to turn off electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes. Thus, an attacker could execute a wide-scale Denial of Service ("DoS"
attack against homes and businesses.
The Advantage of Our Technology
By entering the market without the burden of legacy products and technology, Infrax is able to focus on future technologies and will be poised to provide advanced solutions for companies that are yet to deploy AMI and harden previously installed networks and devices.
While the current use of RF technology is inherently less reliable, Infrax is focused on using highly encrypted data over secure tunnels using a variety of communications medium including WiFi, Cellular or other public communication media. Infrax's secure smart grid platform incorporates a communications transport known as GridMesh™ , and a device and data security management tool known as GRiM . Secure management of the "last mile" backhaul is necessary for utilities to implement Smart Grid applications such as AMI, and substation and distribution automation.
We believe that our Secure Intelligent Energy Platform will give us a competitive advantage in the emerging and evolving Smart Grid environment. By utilizing our solution, Utilities can secure their networks and prolong the lifecycle of previously deployed components by eliminating the security concerns that would necessitate replacement.
Infrax Strategy
We intend to generate revenues from the design, sales, installation, and support of the hardware, software and technology, associated with our integrated solution, Infrax Secure Intelligent Energy Platform (SIEP) ™. Additionally, revenues may be generated from licensing our Security, GRiM and, Infrax Networks wireless communications and future products.
Our Product Portfolio
(a) SNIC
Over the last several quarters, Infrax has been developing the company's flagship product - Secure Network Interface Card (SNIC) for electric meters. While the initial focus will be to develop the card for one of the largest meter manufactures in the world, the final objective is to have a universal card that can be used in any meter in the world. The wireless part of the first prototype has been completed and successfully tested . With the development and improvements continuing, we will have a complete working prototype by the end of this summer. Although details of the card cannot be disclosed for obvious reasons, our emphasis has been to address the security of the data to and from a meter as well as to provide a robust communication platform that can be used not only for meter data but also in Distribution Automation projects such as capacitor bank and volt/var controllers. The Company believes that the SNIC along with newly created Professional Services division will hasten the deployment of all Smart Grid technology for resource constrained small and mid-sized utilities.
(b) SPIDer – Secure Perimeter Intrusion Detection
Building on our expertise in network and physical security platforms, the company has introduced the first active and secure intrusion detection network. The SPIDer Network initial offering is directed to the electrical energy company concerns with copper and material theft and its related impact to safety and homeland security. Infrax Systems is committed to change the present paradigm in the electric utility industry as to how physical and data security processes are deployed to protect electrical substations , remote critical infrastructure facilities, communications networks, advanced distributed controls and intelligent meter networks. Copper theft and its potential threat to safety and homeland security has been estimated by the Department of Energy and other sources as approaching a Billion dollar cost annually in the US alone. Attacks on critical infrastructure such as electric and water resources can cause wide scale economic devastation which would greatly amplify these costs. Most of these assets have little to no security or intrusion detection and what little exists is forensic in nature as it helps to identify what happens but does not detect the threat at the moment it occurs. Infrax Systems' vision is based on a trusted network of intelligent devices which detect intrusion at any level and quickly determines friend or foe thus taking action when necessary to secure critical infrastructure and intelligent property.
Infrax Systems has recently started a marketing campaign for the SPIDer product line . Currently we have demonstrated the basic SPIDer system to three utilities and are scheduled for another two demonstrations. Five additional utilities have expressed interest in the product. Most are for the image based level although one has shown initial interest in the first level coaxial based system. One customer utility has requested a proposal for a complete network linking 12 facilities. Initial projections indicate a strong market and revenue. Revenues are expected to grow logarithmically as utilities finish their pilot stages and budget for next year.
(c) Professional Services
Infrax Systems has introduced a new division which provides engineering and professional services to its energy customers. This division is charged with packaging Infrax Systems products into engineered solutions that are marketed to their customers. Professional services provides engineering, construction and project managements services to the smaller utilities such as local municipalities, Rural Electric Cooperatives and Investor Owned Utilities who may not have the manpower or expertise to accomplish their goals. By leveraging our over 100 years of combined experience in the electric utility and telecommunications industries, Infrax Systems is well placed in an industry which is becoming the newest high tech phenomenon. The Smart Grid vision relies on vast networks of intelligent devices which sources in the Data and Enterprise Network industry indicate will surpass by several orders of magnitude of any know data network of today. Even a relatively small utility will have upwards of a million devices operating on thousands of individual domains. These networks not only will control instant and real time power flow but will also be the cash register for the Utility industry. Security, scalability and authenticity as well as day to day maintainability are the utmost concerns in providing an intelligent power grid that is safe and secure. Infrax Systems will be a leader in designing, building and securing these networks and solutions.
Initial marketing campaigns have been targeting the municipalities and Electrical Cooperatives . Currently we have responded to one major RFP for Capacitor Bank networks and Smart Grid infrastructure worth in excess of 1.5 million dollars. We are also working on a pilot project for our AMI product with the availability of the SNIC, with a major utility. If the pilot project is accepted and successful, we may be asked to provide AMI to all their customers. The revenue from such project, for only one utility, will be overwhelmingly substantial. We are also in the process of negotiations for a contract to provide customer engineer expertise for a fiber optic construction project and we have installed several radios for one of our initial customers. We have started to communicate with few utilities in Florida to become qualified bidders for the coming projects. We will continue this process with utilities all along the east coast of USA.
Our Market
INFRAX market opportunity exists in one of the largest industries in the world. Globally, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), this industry is expected to spend close to $10 trillion dollars by 2030 to upgrade electrical infrastructure . Technology innovations in power delivery have been fermenting for years, but only now is the confluence of physical need and social expectations creating an environment in which real and sustained monetary commitments are being made to create a "Smart Grid" built on information-based devices, digital communication and advanced analytics. Networking giant Cisco has estimated that the market for smart grid communications will grow into a $20 billion-a-year opportunity as the infrastructure is built out over the next five years. Researchers at Specialists in Business Information (SBI) forecast the market will grow to $17 billion-per-year by 2014 from today's $6 billion. Globally, SBI expects the market for smart grid technologies to grow to about $171 by 2014 up from approximately $70 billion in 2009.
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/ifxy/filings 2/14 filing
$IFXY
Infrax Secure Intelligent Energy Platform (SIEP) ™.
Over the last several quarters, Infrax has been developing the company's flagship product - Secure Network Interface Card (SNIC) for electric meters.
1,950,000,000 shares authorized
1,170,535,262 and 925,518,595 shares issued and outstanding, respectively
no convertibles. clean L2
Our Business
INFRAX is a pioneer designer, developer, systems integrator and manufacturer of turnkey secure solutions for the utility industry. We are a provider of unique secure, cost-efficient solutions that provide everything required to bring the utility's technological platform into the 21st. century. Our SIEP™ platform provides: 1) Network Transport and Management (secure 2 way communications), 2) Secure Smart Devices (Smart Meters), and 3) Asset management, Grid Optimization and Security, all in an integrated state-of-the-art Smart Grid solution that truly provides our customers with end to end grid management capability.
We believe our Secure Integrated Platform will facilitate and hasten the deployment of Smart Grid technology among resource constrained small and mid-sized utilities. INFRAX' advantage comes from our advanced patented technologies, which provide a highly secure, reliable platform that allows two-way communication with our Secure Intelligent Endpoint Devices for Advanced Metering Infrastructure and Substations applications.
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Based on our review of the Smart Grid related products against which the Secure Intelligent Energy Platform now competes, we believe that none of them provide the required encryption and threat detection capabilities required to secure the energy grid.
The Utility industry's aggressive deployment of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and data management devices has led to the accelerated reliance on fiber optic communications to many of the key substations. However, the existing utility networks cannot provide the security, reliability and connectivity to extend the reach to the consumer locations.
Today's evolution of Smart Grid design and implementations actually began several years prior to the current initiatives. The same applies to the products designed by most of the major players including Itron, Silver Spring and GridPoint. Although the current security initiatives and elected officials have good intentions, they have missed the window of opportunity to truly integrate security from the beginning by several years. Similar to the credit card industry, banking, health care, and most other industries that conduct business online, the next electrical infrastructure will need to feature security as an add-on that is applied after the Smart Grid is implemented.
Recently discovered vulnerabilities in smart meters have been identified that could allow an attacker to obtain complete control of the meters. Specifically, an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to turn off electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes. Thus, an attacker could execute a wide-scale Denial of Service ("DoS"
attack against homes and businesses. The Advantage of Our Technology
By entering the market without the burden of legacy products and technology, Infrax is able to focus on future technologies and will be poised to provide advanced solutions for companies that are yet to deploy AMI and harden previously installed networks and devices.
While the current use of RF technology is inherently less reliable, Infrax is focused on using highly encrypted data over secure tunnels using a variety of communications medium including WiFi, Cellular or other public communication media. Infrax's secure smart grid platform incorporates a communications transport known as GridMesh™ , and a device and data security management tool known as GRiM . Secure management of the "last mile" backhaul is necessary for utilities to implement Smart Grid applications such as AMI, and substation and distribution automation.
We believe that our Secure Intelligent Energy Platform will give us a competitive advantage in the emerging and evolving Smart Grid environment. By utilizing our solution, Utilities can secure their networks and prolong the lifecycle of previously deployed components by eliminating the security concerns that would necessitate replacement.
Infrax Strategy
We intend to generate revenues from the design, sales, installation, and support of the hardware, software and technology, associated with our integrated solution, Infrax Secure Intelligent Energy Platform (SIEP) ™. Additionally, revenues may be generated from licensing our Security, GRiM and, Infrax Networks wireless communications and future products.
Our Product Portfolio
(a) SNIC
Over the last several quarters, Infrax has been developing the company's flagship product - Secure Network Interface Card (SNIC) for electric meters. While the initial focus will be to develop the card for one of the largest meter manufactures in the world, the final objective is to have a universal card that can be used in any meter in the world. The wireless part of the first prototype has been completed and successfully tested . With the development and improvements continuing, we will have a complete working prototype by the end of this summer. Although details of the card cannot be disclosed for obvious reasons, our emphasis has been to address the security of the data to and from a meter as well as to provide a robust communication platform that can be used not only for meter data but also in Distribution Automation projects such as capacitor bank and volt/var controllers. The Company believes that the SNIC along with newly created Professional Services division will hasten the deployment of all Smart Grid technology for resource constrained small and mid-sized utilities.
(b) SPIDer – Secure Perimeter Intrusion Detection
Building on our expertise in network and physical security platforms, the company has introduced the first active and secure intrusion detection network. The SPIDer Network initial offering is directed to the electrical energy company concerns with copper and material theft and its related impact to safety and homeland security. Infrax Systems is committed to change the present paradigm in the electric utility industry as to how physical and data security processes are deployed to protect electrical substations , remote critical infrastructure facilities, communications networks, advanced distributed controls and intelligent meter networks. Copper theft and its potential threat to safety and homeland security has been estimated by the Department of Energy and other sources as approaching a Billion dollar cost annually in the US alone. Attacks on critical infrastructure such as electric and water resources can cause wide scale economic devastation which would greatly amplify these costs. Most of these assets have little to no security or intrusion detection and what little exists is forensic in nature as it helps to identify what happens but does not detect the threat at the moment it occurs. Infrax Systems' vision is based on a trusted network of intelligent devices which detect intrusion at any level and quickly determines friend or foe thus taking action when necessary to secure critical infrastructure and intelligent property.
Infrax Systems has recently started a marketing campaign for the SPIDer product line . Currently we have demonstrated the basic SPIDer system to three utilities and are scheduled for another two demonstrations. Five additional utilities have expressed interest in the product. Most are for the image based level although one has shown initial interest in the first level coaxial based system. One customer utility has requested a proposal for a complete network linking 12 facilities. Initial projections indicate a strong market and revenue. Revenues are expected to grow logarithmically as utilities finish their pilot stages and budget for next year.
(c) Professional Services
Infrax Systems has introduced a new division which provides engineering and professional services to its energy customers. This division is charged with packaging Infrax Systems products into engineered solutions that are marketed to their customers. Professional services provides engineering, construction and project managements services to the smaller utilities such as local municipalities, Rural Electric Cooperatives and Investor Owned Utilities who may not have the manpower or expertise to accomplish their goals. By leveraging our over 100 years of combined experience in the electric utility and telecommunications industries, Infrax Systems is well placed in an industry which is becoming the newest high tech phenomenon. The Smart Grid vision relies on vast networks of intelligent devices which sources in the Data and Enterprise Network industry indicate will surpass by several orders of magnitude of any know data network of today. Even a relatively small utility will have upwards of a million devices operating on thousands of individual domains. These networks not only will control instant and real time power flow but will also be the cash register for the Utility industry. Security, scalability and authenticity as well as day to day maintainability are the utmost concerns in providing an intelligent power grid that is safe and secure. Infrax Systems will be a leader in designing, building and securing these networks and solutions.
Initial marketing campaigns have been targeting the municipalities and Electrical Cooperatives . Currently we have responded to one major RFP for Capacitor Bank networks and Smart Grid infrastructure worth in excess of 1.5 million dollars. We are also working on a pilot project for our AMI product with the availability of the SNIC, with a major utility. If the pilot project is accepted and successful, we may be asked to provide AMI to all their customers. The revenue from such project, for only one utility, will be overwhelmingly substantial. We are also in the process of negotiations for a contract to provide customer engineer expertise for a fiber optic construction project and we have installed several radios for one of our initial customers. We have started to communicate with few utilities in Florida to become qualified bidders for the coming projects. We will continue this process with utilities all along the east coast of USA.
Our Market
INFRAX market opportunity exists in one of the largest industries in the world. Globally, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), this industry is expected to spend close to $10 trillion dollars by 2030 to upgrade electrical infrastructure . Technology innovations in power delivery have been fermenting for years, but only now is the confluence of physical need and social expectations creating an environment in which real and sustained monetary commitments are being made to create a "Smart Grid" built on information-based devices, digital communication and advanced analytics. Networking giant Cisco has estimated that the market for smart grid communications will grow into a $20 billion-a-year opportunity as the infrastructure is built out over the next five years. Researchers at Specialists in Business Information (SBI) forecast the market will grow to $17 billion-per-year by 2014 from today's $6 billion. Globally, SBI expects the market for smart grid technologies to grow to about $171 by 2014 up from approximately $70 billion in 2009.
http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/ifxy/filings 2/14 filing
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