DarkPulse, Inc. (OTC: DPLS) (“DarkPulse”, “DPLS", or "the Company")
today issued a letter to shareholders from CEO Dennis O’Leary.
A Letter to Shareholders from the Founder
& CEO of DarkPulse, Inc.
Dear fellow shareholders,
As we enter the fourth quarter and ultimately
into a new year and first quarter of 2024, I find myself optimistic
about what lies ahead for DarkPulse. Despite 2023 being one of the
harder macroeconomic years in recent history, and with some of our
own operating challenges, we find ourselves positioned on a
positive growth trajectory.
While there were challenges this year, all
companies operating in large, global markets often find conditions
highly dynamic. However, these environments offer many benefits by
design while simultaneously can also lead to rapidly changing
market conditions in which many companies find themselves facing
headwinds.
Over the last several months, we took a
hard look across the company, business by business, and asked
ourselves about each entity’s initiative’s, long-term potential to
drive revenues, and return on investment. In some cases, it led to
us shuttering certain businesses. Optilan while beginning a
turn in the right direction, continued to struggle due to legacy
debts related to the COVID 19 and operational inefficiencies. We
decided it was in the best interests of shareholders to allow the
company to enter the insolvency process. While we have
deconsolidated the assets of Optilan, DarkPulse retained the wealth
of knowledge and industry contacts it required to continue its
growth plan. DarkPulse has retained two of the most “assets” of
Optilan, the first is Optilan’s customers. Optilan had built strong
relationships with its customers over the many years of operating
and we feel we are positioned to continue those relationships. The
second “asset” is Optilan’s engineering and system installation
knowledge, which DarkPulse required in order to successfully sell
and install our own product and services. In addition, we are
working to acquire certain assets of Optilan we feel serve our
business plans for the future.
We will continue focus on company growth and
increasing shareholder equity with an emphasis on long-term
profitability and cash management. We chose to prioritize growth
over profits because we believed that scaling into a dominant
market position is essential to achieving the full potential of our
business plans. We continue to look globally and have established a
UK-based subsidiary named DarkPulse Ltd. We have also begun the
process of incorporating subsidiaries in India, Oman and Turkey as
part of our plan to shift away from near-term acquisitions and
focus on organic growth of the Company. We will continue to build
our global expansion into key markets well into 2024 as we focus on
full scale manufacturing of our sensor hardware and building market
share into critical infrastructure markets.
Updates Through Q3
During 2023 we have accomplished the following
milestones:
- We signed a Master Services
Agreement (MSA) with Sanmina Corp (NASDAQ:SANM) for the manufacture
and global delivery logistics of our patented hardware as well as
the creation of software for the system’s user interface. We
anticipate the issuance of a purchase order to Sanmina for the
manufacturing of 200 Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analyser
(“BOTDA”) Units in Q4.
- Deconsolidation of Optilan UK Ltd
completed.
- We have successfully registered the
entity “DarkPulse Ltd” in the UK and we anticipate full operations
to begin in Q4. All future DarkPulse global subsidiaries are slated
to be operated under DarkPulse Ltd (UK).
- We are in process of registering
additional DarkPulse entities in India, Oman, and Turkey
- We have begun interviewing
individuals for key positions based in the UK including Chief
Global Operations Officer, Chief Technology Offer, and Chief
Commercial Officer.
- We have been invited by the German
government to establish a presence in the country and we are
interested in areas near Hanover. The German Economic Development
team has offered financial support and assisting us with
establishing an operations facility.
- We appointed Craig Atkin to our
Board of Directors
- We have created a digital twin of
the Honcut Bridge in Marysville, CA and created a
(“VR”) capable user interface utilizing a game
engine offering customers a full AR/VR experience of their
infrastructure, such as bridges, roadways, buildings, with future
integration into supervisory control and data acquisition systems
as an added value.
- We have made advancements related
to EV Dynamic Vehicle Charging offerings and we anticipate
launching “Smart Road” product/services in late Q4/ early Q1
2024.
- We are building a Channel Partner
program whereby companies will be trained and certified for the
installation of our BOTDA systems. Our distributor will assist
these companies with the sale of our patented hardware and
establish a sales support team for these companies while also
allowing for direct purchase our systems to certified
partners.
- We, through our subsidiary,
Neurologistics, filed a provisional patent related to the use of
fiber optics as a power source for Brain Machine Interface
(“BMI”) devices.
- We are in the final development
stages of an implantable laser-based infraclavicular battery for
BMI. We are also investigating the feasibility for this device to
power pacemakers.
- We are in the process of signing an
agreement with a major national institute for the manufacturing
designs of our BMI hardware.
- We are currently pursuing licensing
of new intellectual property we have deemed complementary to our
BOTDA technology including the addition of plasma laser
technologies that create additional sensing capabilities and new
applications for our BOTDA sensor systems.
- We continue working toward
additional system interrogator “black box” designs with integrated
components, including PC capabilities, that will eliminate the need
for our customers to purchase hardware from our competitors while
offering a more complete and robust system application for use
within the aerospace industry.
Company Strategy on
Technology
We will continue to push the limits on our
technology products and services with “first to market” offerings
such our very high resolution BOTDA systems with fully integrated
VR capable graphical user interface (“GUI”) as a
key component to implementation of our structural health monitoring
systems as the world moves towards smart cities. This is in line
with our future desire to be a major player in both structural
health monitoring and Big Data as a service
(BdaaS) markets.
We continue to believe we have a window of
opportunity as the competitive landscape continues to evolve at a
rapid pace. Many large players continue to move towards green
energy, smart cities and an AR/VR industrial metaverse and we are
devoting substantial resources toward becoming a global leader in
the space. Our goal is to remain nimble by moving quickly to
solidify and extend our current market position while we evaluate
and execute opportunities in related areas. We see substantial
revenue opportunity in these larger markets we are targeting and
are concentrating on building our capabilities and market presence
with an eye toward long term revenues.
To maintain a level of competitiveness we have
expanded our Scope of Work with Sanmina to build the software
required for our GUI. The Sanmina a team has successfully built our
system’s functionality software allowing our hardware to function
efficiently. We’ve now called upon Sanmina to complete our customer
GUI capability allowing utilization anywhere in the world on any
device in near real-time. The design also includes cloud-based data
storage which will enable customers to view their systems and
receive critical alerts while also viewing historical data offering
a full view of their systems over longer time periods which will
offer a more comprehensive view of their systems health.
Pursuing an Up list to a Senior
Exchange
We have signed a Business Combination Agreement
(“BCA”) with a special purpose acquisition
company, “Global System Dynamics, Inc.” (NASDAQ: GSD) who has
reserved Stock Symbol “DARK” to facilitate and up list onto NASDAQ.
We are currently discussing opportunities with banking groups to
assist with the initial listing requirements of the exchange.
Additionally, subject to the approval of any banking partners
associated with any up list, as part of any up list we may create a
rights offering whereby existing shareholders would be eligible to
purchase shares of the Company at discount.
We believe the OTC Markets platform is not
conducive to the successful execution of our business plan
including the necessity to meet certain capital requirements for
successful tender (bid) opportunities. These opportunities are
ranked on a point system with a major portion of scoring linked to
the financial capacity of the company. We believe, as an OTC “penny
stock,” we are disadvantaged in the bidding process due to the
often very large contract values associated with our industry focus
on critical infrastructure monitoring.
Dynamic EV Charging with Integrated
Smart Road Technology
We continue our relationship with Utah State
University as a partner of The National Science Foundation “ASPIRE”
Program created to further the implementation of Dynamic Electric
Vehicle (in road) Charging. As part of our desire to be a leader in
advanced technologies, we are in negotiations for the licensing of
certain intellectual property related to in-road charging
capabilities for wireless dynamic EV charging. We believe the
integration of our sensor systems and dynamic vehicle charging will
offer an advancing industry the necessary capabilities to support
the growth of EV vehicle adoption, reduction is size and cost of EV
batteries, reduction in environmental impact, driver anxiety
related to EV driving ranges, relieve pressure on inadequate
electrification infrastructure as more EV’s hit the road. As part
of this initiative, we are in process of joining several EV dynamic
charging deployments in the United States. We anticipate closing
the agreements before the end of Q4 and will announce details
shortly.
Update on Honcut Bridge
We have completed our installation into the
Honcut Bridge located in West Sacramento, California. We have
collected structural data of the bridge’s infrastructure and shared
a portion of the data collected with the use of a remote power
generator while on site. Utilizing this data we performed a remote
demonstration of the User Interface (UI) with
certain members of the California Department of Transportation
(“CALTRANS”) team. The operations of the bridge
have been transferred to the maintenance department which brought a
new team from CALTRANS to the project. While we have shared what we
believe to be a fair portion of the data collected, we are
currently negotiating the parameters necessary for us to release
the balance of data including reconfirmation that we maintain
ownership of the data and certain data tables and methodologies
deployed that we deem proprietary. We are working through
safeguards to ensure this proprietary information will not be
publicly released by the State of California. Additionally, the
project requires CALTRANS to provide and secure a power cabinet in
the vicinity of the bridge so the system hardware can be
permanently installed on location in order to operate as designed.
We have reserved the hardware for the project and await
confirmation that the cabinet is ready to accept the hardware. We
will update as we move towards an agreement.
In Closing
Optics & BMI
I understand our technological focus on BMI and
artificial intelligence (“AI”) may seem
disconnected. This is related to a shorter-term perspective whereas
a more comprehensive view of the larger plan with respect to the
design and implementation of our systems utilizing AI and having
the capability for future integration with BMI.
In early 2009, I was introduced to the science
of global system dynamics – which is essentially implementation of
multiple systems into one larger system or a “system of
everything.” I began futurizing on binding multiple systems
including integration of humans into infrastructure/ smart cities
utilizing BMI and distributed fiber optic sensors. For “smart”
cities to in fact be smart most if not all elements of a city need
to be part of the network fabric including its citizens. Currently
this is achieved through smart devices such as cellular phones,
however, this connection has multiple limiting factors and
ultimately must utilize other methods such as BMI as this
technology becomes more widely adopted.
Further to this effort we have validated the
connection between fiber optics and BMI through our recent
provisional patent filing for an infraclavicular laser-based power
source for BMI devices. In fact, current BMI technologies utilize
eternal power sources giving the technology limited viability
within research environments. An internal power source is required
to fully implement the benefits of BMI in real world scenarios.
Utilizing A.I. in DFOS
The use of AI by organizations to improve
systems and operations within competitive landscapes has taken hold
across the globe. We have utilized various technological
innovations from inception, most notably our patented dark-pulsing
technique, but we have also used the power of machine learning for
data handling and recently the power of AI as we continue to build
our interactive user interface. I can’t help but imagine a sewing
together of all technological capabilities we have created as part
of the future humanity. Thank you for allowing me to futurize.
As always, I thank all of our shareholders for
your continuing support as we build the company with an eye towards
becoming the world’s leading infrastructure technology company.
Sincerely,
Dennis M O’Leary
Founder, Chairman, CEO, Entrepreneur
About DarkPulse, Inc.
DarkPulse, Inc. uses advanced laser-based monitoring systems to
provide rapid and accurate monitoring of temperatures, strains, and
stresses. The Company’s technology excels when applied to live,
dynamic critical infrastructure and structural monitoring,
including pipeline monitoring, perimeter and structural
surveillance, aircraft structural components and mining safety. The
Company's fiber-based monitoring systems can assist markets that
are not currently served, and its unique technology covers extended
areas and any event that is translated into the detection of a
change in strain or temperature. In addition to the Company’s
ongoing efforts with respect to the marketing and sales of its
technology products and services to its customers, the Company also
continues to explore potential strategic alliances through joint
venture and licensing opportunities to further expand its global
market position. For more information, visit www.DarkPulse.com
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amount and nature of competition from other security and telecom
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