WEST LAFAYETTE — A company that has licensed a Purdue University tracking software innovation has been awarded funding from the Emerging Innovations Fund, an evergreen fund created to accelerate the commercialization of Purdue's early-stage discoveries.

SensorHound Inc., a company that focuses on technology that improves reliability and reduces the operations cost of networked embedded systems, also called the Internet of Things (IoT), received $75,000 with a potential to receive an additional $75,000 if certain performance milestones are met. The company is based on research from Purdue University's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science.