FlatTurtle looks after the technology in office buildings: the WiFi from the lobby to the car park, the screens in reception and by the lifts, and the IT that tenants and building teams rely on every day. We install it, keep an eye on it and fix it, so a facility manager has one number to call instead of a list of suppliers.
The people who answer when you call are the same people who build and run it.
Yeri Tiete co-founded FlatTurtle after his time at Google. His background is in networks and system administration, so he’s usually the one who knows why a building’s WiFi is misbehaving. He’s the link between our clients and our developers, and the reason FlatTurtle grew from screens into WiFi and IT.
Nik Torfs, co-founder and tech lead, holds a master’s in applied informatics and runs the infrastructure everything else stands on, from our cloud servers to the one-click deployments that update every screen without anyone going on site.
FlatTurtle started in iRail.be, a Belgian open data community that pushed to get SNCB/NMBS train data into the open. That’s where Yeri Tiete and Pieter Colpaert laid the groundwork, and it’s why live departures on a screen still feel like home to us.
Most of our clients look after several office buildings, not just one.
Deployed in hundreds of locations and growing.
We grew up in open data, which is why live transit, weather and traffic on a screen come naturally to us.
TurtleSonar keeps an eye on the network and screens in every building we look after, so we usually hear about a problem before a tenant does.
We install it, monitor it and fix it, so nobody is chasing three suppliers when something stops working.
Life’s too short not to enjoy what you do. We picked a turtle as our mascot, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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