What I'm Building
Blu Technologies Inc
I'm building the operating ecosystem the self-storage industry hasn't had.
The Origin
In 2020, I built Canada's first fully automated, unmanned self-storage facility. The whole system ran on a smart entry platform: electronic locks, a call center, property management software, all pieced together because nothing cohesive existed on the market.
Thirteen percent hardware failure rates. Batteries dying in six to eighteen months instead of the promised four years. Every failure meant a tenant stranded at the gate and me issuing concessions.
I spent years trying to get the manufacturer to fix the problems. Worked my way up to the president of the company by name. Other operators across the industry were having the same issues. Nothing changed.
So I decided to build a better one.
The Engineering
I partnered with industrial automation specialists from oil and gas. Their team had built frack pump controllers designed to survive on the side of a 2,500-horsepower vibrating engine for decades of continuous uptime.
During testing, we cycle-tested the lock past 1.2 million operations without a single fault. That's roughly 500 years of daily use. We live-streamed the entire thing.
1.2M
cycle tests without
a single fault
500
years of daily use
equivalent
99.999%
uptime engineering
standard
The Vision
BluLok is the foundation, not the finish line. On top of the hardware, we're building BluAI, an intelligence layer that takes operational data from the locks and turns it into actionable insights for operators. Beyond that, a full software control layer.
The vision is a vertically integrated operating ecosystem for the self-storage industry. Hardware, intelligence, and software, designed to work together from the ground up.
From 3D-printed prototype to production-ready hardware.
BluLok is currently approaching commercial deployment.
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