Relay, which develops cloud-hosted, AI-powered smart radio communicators for frontline workers, raised $36M to help businesses capture "frontline intelligence"
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AI-powered radios that turn frontline chatter into structured “frontline intelligence” are another move to wire edge workers directly into data systems. If you run distributed operations, budget for pilots that treat comms hardware as a sensor network feeding your analytics and workflow engines, not just as voice pipes.
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