CEO Interview with Jonathan Reeves of CSignum

For more than 30 years, Jonathan has successfully led many start-up ventures, including multiple acquisitions as well as senior operating roles in networking, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and AI businesses.

He co-founded Arvizio, a provider of enterprise AR solutions, was Chairman and co-founder of CloudLink Technologies, which today is part of Dell. He also founded and served as CEO of several networking companies including Sirocco Systems and Sahara Networks.

Tell us about your company?

CSignum’s patented wireless platform is revolutionizing underwater and underground communications by overcoming the limitations of traditional radio, acoustic, and optical systems, unlocking new possibilities for IoT connectivity below the surface.

The company’s flagship product EM-2 product line enables real-time, wireless data transmission from submerged or buried sensors to a nearby surface gateway through many challenging media, including water, ice, soil, rock, and concrete.

The solutions integrate with industry-standard sensors, enabling rapid application deployment, low-maintenance, without the need for surface buoys, pedestals or cables which can clutter natural environments.

What problems are you solving?

CSignum addresses a fundamental connectivity gap by linking data from sensors in submerged and subsurface locations in challenging conditions quickly and easily to the desktop for monitoring and analysis, eliminating the blind spots in critical infrastructure and services.

This opens transformative possibilities for smarter infrastructure, safer operations, and better environmental outcomes on a global scale.

What application areas are your strongest?

CSignum’s strongest application areas are those where reliable, real-time data is needed from environments traditionally considered too difficult or costly to monitor:

• Water Quality Monitoring: For rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and combined sewer overflows (CSOs), support compliance with evolving environmental regulations.
• Corrosion Monitoring: For buried pipelines, storage tanks, marine structures, and offshore energy platforms, where monitoring is critical for safety and asset longevity.
• Under-Vessel Monitoring: Including propeller shaft bearing wear, hull integrity, and propulsion system health for commercial and naval fleets—without dry-docking or through-hull cabling.
• Urban Infrastructure: Monitoring storm drains, culverts, and wastewater systems in confined spaces.
• Offshore Wind and Energy: Supporting environmental, structural, and subsea equipment monitoring on and around offshore wind turbines and platforms.

What keeps your customers up at night?

From public water systems and offshore platforms to shipping fleets and underground utilities, our customers are responsible for critical infrastructure. They worry about the impact of not knowing what’s happening below the surface:

• Missed or delayed detection of environmental incidents, such as sewer overflows, leaks, or pollution events that could lead to regulatory penalties, reputational damage, or public health risks.
• Undetected equipment degradation, especially corrosion or mechanical wear, that can result in costly failures, downtime, or safety hazards.
• Gaps in real-time data from buried or submerged infrastructure due to the limits of traditional wireless or cabled systems, particularly in hard-to-access locations.
• Compliance pressures, especially as governments introduce stricter real-time monitoring and reporting requirements in water, energy, and maritime sectors.
• Resource constraints: accessing reliable, high-frequency data without adding personnel, vehicles, or costly construction projects.

What does the competitive landscape look like and how do you differentiate?

CSignum is the world’s first commercially viable platform that successfully transmits data through water, ice, soil, and other signal-blocking media, simplifying real-time data collection from the most inaccessible and hazardous locations, reducing risk and cost. No other solution currently achieves this.

The innovation and differentiation lie not just in the core technology but in the range of applications it unlocks: water quality monitoring, corrosion detection in submerged pipelines, tracking structural health of marine infrastructure, and enabling communications in ice-covered or disaster-prone environments.

What new features/technology are you working on?

CSignum is scaling its platform for widespread adoption across water and other utilities, maritime, energy infrastructure, defense, and environmental monitoring, especially through partnerships.

One area of expansion includes under-vessel systems monitoring, where CSignum’s technology enables wireless measurement of propeller shaft bearing wear and propulsion system health, all without the need for through-hull cabling or dry dock access.

In parallel, we will expand our EM-2 product family, launching next-gen models with longer battery life, smaller form factor, enhanced analytics, and plug-and-play compatibility with leading sensor systems. The CSignum Cloud platform will evolve into a hub for predictive diagnostics, anomaly detection, and digital twin integration.

How do customers normally engage with your company?

We work closely with customers to understand the physical constraints, data requirements, and operational goals of their environment.

From there, we guide them through a proof-of-concept or pilot deployment, leveraging our modular EM-2 systems and integrating with their existing sensors or preferred platforms.

Customers value our deep technical support, application expertise, and the flexibility of a platform that requires no cabling, no trenching, and minimal site disruption.

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