About
THE COMPANY
We give you freedom. Through innovation and technology our products provide you freedom. Freedom to travel, to find you way through complex buildings and enhance your art and cultural experiences. Using your own smartphone, we provide systems making society more accessible for everyone – next signal is your signal.
PROJECT SUPPORT
Next Signal is very grateful for receiving financial support to develop and commercialize the universally designed beacon based systems. Next Signal is receiver of Innovation Norway Premarket Evaluation and Commercialization start-up grants.
TravelCompanion has been granted project funding for beacons based Universal Design through The Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs, Deltasenteret and from VRI Vestfold. This makes it possible for us to continue developing and pushing innovation.
OUR PARTNERS
We value the close collaboration we have with our high competence partners, who are leading experts in their field.
SINTEF · LabWerk · CoreTrek · SuperVisuell · Norges Blindeforbund · Norges Døveforbund
THE FOUNDERS
Einar Myreng (CEO) is experienced in developing and helping customers making available information and tools which can be used in the interaction with their customers and general public. He has experience with and knowledge about beacons technology connected with related apps on mobile devices. He is educated as a teacher with a focus on technology from the start in 1991, and has experience from working with teaching/administration and several years in business. He has a passion to find new and easier ways of living and working by using technology.
Dr. Lars-Cyril Blystad (CTO) holds a Ph.D. in Applied Micro- and Nanosystems and a M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Oslo. He has more than 10 years experience as a research scientist at SINTEF within the areas of microelectronics, Internet of Things (IoT), Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), analog and mixed signal electronics, including communications systems like Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).