At Erisco, we develop and manufacture battery-less smart padlocks. Our locks utilize NFC (near field communication) to harvest power from user’s phones as well as authenticating the user. What does this mean? • Our locks don’t have a battery! The Achillies heal of smart locks are their batteries! We never have problems with dead batteries. We are also able to operate in lower temperatures than battery powered locks (down to minus 40). • Our locks are always offline. In fact, even users don’t need to be online to open or close our locks. Access to the lock is managed through our app. You can deploy our lock in a remote location where there is no network coverage and then add and remove access rights from users. • Our locks are secure. We use modern cryptography to authenticate users and distribute users’ rights via X501 certificates. • We have all of the normal smart lock stuff, such as keeping a record of who has opened and closed the lock, being able to quickly and remotely add and remove access, being able to configure access for a particular time period and so on.

For the past 13 years, we have operated exclusively in the mining industry. We set ourselves apart from our competition by the quality of our installations, the appropriateness of the solution which we offer and the high level of service which we give our customers. Although we are a technology company, we have built our business in the production areas of our mining customers.Through our partnership with ASI, Sedna is able to deliver retrofit autonomous haul trucks in turnkey projects. Through our understanding of and relationships with Flanders and Epiroc we are able to assist with surface blast hole drill automation.

Sedna is involved in IT outsourcing, wired and wireless data networking and fleet management in the mining industry. Since 2005 we have built our business through putting ourselves in our customer’s shoes and providing the most appropriate IT solution.

Skipper of new sailing yachts from Cape Town to destinations in the Caribbean, USA, South Pacific and Mediterranean Sea. Gap few years!

Cash flow management, management of large debtors book, management of staff, financial and management accounting function.