The podcast starts with an introduction to Matt and Vutility before going into use cases of the company and the current issues with data collection. Matt then talks about how to capture data and the process of building the HotDrop product. Ryan and Matt wrap up the podcast with a high-level overview of challenges in the industry and where Vutility’s customers come from. Matt has been an entrepreneur, business owner, and investor for the past 20 years. After completing his MBA at BYU, he spent several years as an executive consultant leading global organizations and innovative startups, providing financial and operational guidance. After initially joining Vutility in 2017 as COO, Matt has served as CEO since 2020, overseeing the global commercial expansion of the company, including technology development, market strategy, business growth, capital financing, and operations. Vutility powers insights that change how businesses work through cost-effective, scalable access to real-time energy data down to the circuit level. We deliver the data that sparks change. As the leading provider of high-resolution energy monitoring, Vutility enables businesses across all industries to optimize their energy consumption and improve operational efficiencies. Vutility has created innovative and cost-effective IoT-based monitoring sensors paired with our leading-edge graph databse cloud technologies, so companies across a range of commercial and industrial settings can gain relevant and timely insight into their energy usage and monitor critical infrastructure and equipment. The HotDrop family of devices provides minute-by-minute data behind the meter down to the circuit level, transmitting over half a million data points per year.