Servato CEO and Chairman Chris Mangum for Battery Power's online magazine and blog

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The article in Battery Power covers important topics when it comes to thinking about better battery management for telecommunications networks. As more and more essential business processes and elements of consumers' lives rely on connectivity, backup power becomes increasingly important. Learn more about it by reading thearticle here.

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Servato offers a solution for backup battery management that extends battery life and allows for advanced remote monitoring. Servato is currently working with companies in the telecom, power, transportation and solar to protectensure backup power reliability through Active Battery Management.

Headquartered in New Orleans, LA, Servato is excited about Collision coming to New Orleans and what it means for the New Orleans startup ecosystem. We honored to be mentioned on Web Summit's blog as one of New Orleans' most well funded companies. Check out more about New Orleans and Collision on the Web Summit Blog's post New Orleans: The Startup City.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 8/26/15

Alex Rawitz
Servato Corp.
504-459-4561

arawitz@servatocorp.com

SERVATO CORP. CLOSES INVESTMENT ROUND TO FUND SALES GROWTH
Family Office Leads Louisiana Syndicate with Strategic, Institutional and Angel Investor Participation

(New Orleans, LA) Servato Corp., an “Industrial Internet of Things” technology and service provider based in New Orleans, announced today a new investment round led by ATCO Investment Company (ATCO). Investors included the Louisiana Fund, Fibrebond Corporation, other North Louisiana family offices and the NOLA Angel Network.

For the Internet of Things to reach its full potential, we're going to need 5G. Without it, the promise of efficiency and automation unlocked by the deluge of data will stall.

The “Internet of Things” (IoT) – the technological trend of connecting nearly everything to the Internet – promises to revolutionize our lives. Experts tell us that we can expect dramatic impacts in settings as broad as home automation, wearable technology, industrial automation and smart cities.

Guarding against Internet downtime is hard, and sometimes major outages can occur in vast territories over the U.S. These outages, like this Southeast Internet outage, can happen across carriers and take hours to fix.

Last week users took to social media to decry a major network outage that affected Internet and Cellphone access for a huge swath of the Southeast United States, according to USA Today. The article details reports of Internet outages that began on 3pm Tuesday, August 4, 2015 and lasted for approximately 5 hours.

The $175 million is just another example of increased funding for rural broadband development. The promise of connecting the entire country with high-speed, reliable Internet access has never been more imminent.

Windstream, a leading national telecommunications provider, announced on Wednesday, August 5 that it would accept $175 million annually for seven years beginning in 2015 to support expanded broadband. The money comes from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with aim of providing 400,000 rural locations in17 states improved Internet access.

Will Batteries Revolutionize how Power is Produced and Used? NPR Explains...

The segment above, aired on August 3, covered energy storage on NPR and was reported with Inside Energy, a public media collaboration focusing on America's energy issues. It describes the promise of energy storage as a means to unlocking new forms of energy generation.

Backup batteries ensure that the when power goes out, the Internet stays on, and there are already millions of batteries used in these settings. These batteries will support a connected future where the cost of "downtime" grows.

For most people, the word “battery” probably makes them think first of the disheartening sight of their phone battery dying coupled with the mild panic that ensues envisioning even a few moments without the ability to connect digitally to the rest of the world. Next they would probably think of other consumer devices around their homes that either use rechargeable or disposable batteries. Between our smart phones and our cadre of consumer electronics, we are all well acquainted with the inconvenience of a dead battery. Beyond our consumer electronics devices, however, batteries play a huge role in the modern world around us that is largely out of sight and out of mind.

The Internet of Things is coming and it will affect every facet of our lives. The U.S. Government is hoping tech leaders can jump in and help.

Analysts, technology companies, researchers all agree, the next big wave of the Internet is the Internet of Things (IoT). Now lawmakers and regulators in the U.S. Government are trying to get up the learning curve and out in front of the many issues that a future filled with connected devices creates. These issues include improving interoperability between competing IoT frameworks, security and privacy as personal and commercial data proliferate, cooperation between public and private institutions advancing IoT, and the infrastructure necessary to enable IoT to grow.