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Andrus Nomm
Chief Automations Officer & OWI Platform Architect. Chief Automations Officer and architect of the Optimal Waste Intelligence (OWI) platform. Builds the machine-learning models, computer-vision sorting, industrial IoT sensor networks, and closed-loop process control that run modern waste-to-energy operations in real time. CTO of FueledBy.Net and co-founder of The Waste Agency. Published by Renewable Waste Energy.
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