The CEO of Sidewalk Labs, Dan Doctoroff, has announced in a post on the company’s blog that leaves his post due to illness. This leads not to the company having a new CEO, but to starting next year, all your projects will become part of Google again, from which Sidewalk Labs became independent three years ago.
Thus, according to Doctoroff, «Starting next year, Sidewalk Pebble, Mesa, Delve and Affordable Electrification products will join Google and form the core of Google’s product efforts on urban sustainability.«. These products will continue to be under the direction of current Sidewalk Labs President of Urban Products, Prem Ramaswami, and by his CTO, Craig Nevill-Manning. They are both former Google workers. In addition, the teams will continue to work normally on the product they were in, and provide service to customers.
According to the company, Pebble it is a parking and braking management sensor, Delve a real estate development program based on Artificial Intelligence, Desk offers energy saving kits to businesses, and Affordable Electrification is a home energy management program. As for another of his projects, Canopy Buildings, designs and manufactures buildings for commercial development.
But what Sidewalk Labs is probably best known for is its plans for developing a smart neighborhood in Toronto: Quayside. The roughly $ 1 million project could have developed a community built with the latest technology and the latest in sustainable methods and materials, but local residents didn’t like the project, which came to a halt in 2020. So Doctoroff He assured that the economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic made Quayside financially unviable.
Doctoroff assures that he leaves Sidewalk «with complete confidence that our impact will increase exponentially. While I will greatly miss working with the unparalleled team at Sidewalk Labs, I couldn’t be more excited to see Google accelerate the development of our products and technology to achieve its sustainability mission in good time.«.
