First thing about iRidium mobile: she's from Lower Tagil. Put down the folklore celebrity of this city, mostly known, of course, through its metallurgical productions (Uralvagonzawater, too). And this metallurgical environment played a role in the future of IRidium, but later.

Lower Tagil: tank-grade, home of principally new Danis Popov OS and iRidium mobile

2006. Internet for every school

The company's history started in 2006, when Sergey King, her founder, was still selling computers. The Uralians can remember the Quadrat trading network. There was a cable network development unit in Quadrat. For example, it was conducting an Internet site at Lower Tagil School on Internet for Every School under the Education National Project, which started in 2006. In this way, a team of people who have been able to build security systems, fire safety, video surveillance, local networks, etc. has been formed at Quadratha.

However, the King has learned that computer commerce as a business is doomed: competition with large networks will kill him. Running forward, it was when DNS, Quadrata, had arrived for a couple of years. But then the company had time. The ability to work with networks and automation systems has led the team to the theme of smart houses. The decision was made, and the company has a Quadrat unit, a smart house. Thus, one national project and anticipation of the founder of the company encouraged a computer seller to become an integrator.

Quadrat has actively pursued the new direction. Like other integrators, the Smart House started with the interior design studios. Quadrat Service representatives were so energetic and confident in the prospects of smart houses that they were able to enthusiastize even Marata Gilesetdinov, a 15-year-old programmer at the time, whose wife was working in one of these design studios. But only when she came to work, Marat found out there was still no programmer in Quadrat. So he stayed there, being the first and for the next two years the only developer for integration.

2009. Crisis and a new turn

A new turn in the company ' s history, which transformed it from a conventional integrator to a soft manufacturer, which uses thousands of integrators around the world, occurred in 2009. As in the previous case, it was predetermined by a combination of factors.

The first is the treasure of smart houses. In the middle of zero, smart houses weren't just considered luxury-- they were only for the richest. The minimum budget for Quadrat Service was $150,000. In the study of price formation, the company realized that the main projector of the budgets was the board managers, i.e. the most sensory control units with which smart houses were actually associated. Let's say AMX MVP 8400i was worth $5-6 thousand and weighed 2, 5 kg, and the function was not very different from any CPC.

AMX MVP 8400

He did not actually have an alternative, the product of another manufacturer, Creston, was worth the same, and industrial decisions were, at all times, a road of $100,000 per remote and higher.

Steve Jobs, who submitted the first iPhone in January 2007, should be thanked for the second clue where the project should move. He only travelled one year later, in February 2008, when Sergey Kingov gave him his birthday. The high-quality sensor, light management and well-designed, with many excellent decisions, the interface then gave a great impression on Quadrat and Marat staff.

It was agreed that companies needed their version of the AMX protocol, allowing the company ' s controllers to operate from other devices. And the first such device was supposed to be iPhone.