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FRESHDATA Technology

FRESHDATA was founded in 2022, as a spin-off of the METU Communication Networks Research Group (CNG).
FRESHDATA turns world-leading communications research to disruptive advanced technology for the scale-up of terrestrial and Space-based IoT.
Over the last year we filed 12 new patents that can impact 6G, LoRa/LoRaWAN, and Space communication standardization. Our first flagship product is the LPWAN Tunneling Relay, based on one of our pending patents, powered by our trademark LoRaFRESH protocol, which is the world’s first age-aware LoRa. The FRESHDATA relay will stand out in the emerging LPWAN relay market by its energy efficiency, backward compatibility, and its ability to support a larger number of IoT devices. We will make the PoC demonstration of the FRESHDATA relay on an environmental IoT system deployed on a beach, for groundwater and ecosystem monitoring. The relay will have applications wherever LPWANs are used: smart cities, agriculture, monitoring of highways, gas pipelines, electrical distribution systems, as well as satellite uplink access for land and maritime IoT. FRESHDATA brings together a team at the frontier of semantic and goal-oriented communication research as well as implementation and prototyping of wireless multiuser systems, embedded software, and business development. We also have two industry leading advisors, from whose experience we will benefit greatly.

The Team

Elif Uysal Freshdata

Elif Uysal, Ph.D. – CEO

Fellow, IEEE

Professor @ METU EE

Founding Director of CNG

Ph. D: Stanford Uni.; S.M.: MIT

Sajjad Baghaee freshdata

Sajjad Baghaee, Ph. D. CTO

Sr. IoT Engineer

PostDoc Researcher at METU

METU EE MSc ’12, Ph. D ’23

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Süleyman ÇITIR

BSEE, METU EE 
IPR Development &

Communication Engineer

Burak Aydar

Burak Aydar

Candidate Engineer, METU EE

Electronic Systems Design Engineer

Barkın Ergür

Barkın Ergür

BSEE, METU

Embedded Systems

Görkem Yıldırım

Görkem Yıldırım

Candidate Engineer, METU EE

Electronic Systems Design Engineer

HR & Administration

Ayça Osunluk

Ayça Osunluk

BS, CS Bilkent

HR and Procurement

Business Development & Marketing

Hakan Duman

Hakan Duman

BSEE, METU EE
Business Development Expert

Former CEO of a deep tech company with successful fundraising experience.
Responsible for the EU and Australian markets

High Level Advisor

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Ahmet Oral, PhD

Founder, Nanomagnetic Instruments. 

Professor Emeritus, METU