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Package pickup, without the search
Ned Hill on computer vision, finding a market for an invention, and the decisions behind Position Imaging.
Ned Hill
Founder & CEO · Position Imaging
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MarketScale Retail
With Tyler Kern
Track each parcel after it reaches the building.
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Ned and Tyler Kern discuss using computer vision and guided retrieval to reduce the search for packages in residential buildings and stores.
Published articleTyler Kern · Host
Original on MarketScale ↗Intelligent Logistics
With Daniel Litwin & David Byrne
Ned describes the company’s intellectual property and financing context.
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Ned joins Daniel Litwin and Ghost Tree Partners’ David Byrne to discuss Position Imaging’s 2023 venture-debt financing, the role of intellectual property and investor fit.
Published articleDaniel Litwin · Host / David Byrne · Guest
Original on MarketScale ↗Multifamily Innovation Awards
The award recognizes Position Imaging.
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Accepting Position Imaging’s 2023 company award, Ned recalls early adoption challenges and thanks the team behind Smart Package Room.
Published articleOriginal on MarketScale ↗NED / FROM THE CONVERSATIONS
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With the onslaught of online sales, people needed to change, and they needed to do it with new technology, because the old ways weren’t working
A customer doesn't care what technology is. It just needs to be simple and intuitive.
The delivery still has a final handoff
Ned Hill with Tyler Kern · MarketScale Retail
Ned describes the friction after a parcel reaches a building: someone still has to locate it and get it to the recipient. Smart Package Room and iPickup use computer vision with light, laser and audio guidance to support collection. In retail, the aim includes freeing an associate to help another customer.
Discussion prompt
How long does collection take after the parcel has already arrived?
Make the funding case specific to the business
Ned Hill and David Byrne on Intelligent Logistics
Discussing Position Imaging’s $30 million venture-debt financing, Ned points to intellectual property and prospective cash flow. David Byrne adds the need for a specific business plan. Their conversation explains the circumstances behind one company’s decision and the importance of choosing partners suited to it.
Discussion prompt
Which assets and business assumptions explain why this financing route fits the company?
Find a recurring problem that the technology can solve
Ned Hill · 2023 Multifamily Innovation Awards
In his award acceptance, Ned describes early difficulty winning adoption for tracking technology and the subsequent focus on multifamily package management. An everyday collection problem gave the technology a clear application. He credits the team that turned that focus into Smart Package Room.
Discussion prompt
Where is the problem frequent enough that people will change how they work?
A faster pickup can give customers time to browse
Ned Hill with Hilary Kennedy · Intelligent Logistics, 2021
Ned expected a pickup point at the back of a store to encourage extra shopping. In a Tractor Supply pilot, the retailer placed it at the front. He reports that customers appreciated the easy collection and some chose to use the time saved to browse. The example challenges the assumption that making people walk farther creates the better shopping experience.
Discussion prompt
Does the layout save the customer time, or mainly try to hold their attention?
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AWAY FROM THE JOB TITLE
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First, a dog that would not stay put.
Before package rooms, Ned was trying to keep his dog from escaping. That problem led to an early wireless-fence venture. When his plans for growing that business diverged from his investors’, he left and founded Position Imaging in 2006. The application changed; the interest in knowing where things are stayed.
Read the source ↗Learning the engineering, too.
Early on, Ned left the technical discussions to others and thought of himself as the “idea guy.” He later called that a mistake. Becoming better versed in how the product worked became part of his approach to running the company.
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About Ned.
Founder & CEO
Position Imaging
Connect on LinkedIn ↗Ned Hill founded Position Imaging in 2006 after an earlier venture in wireless dog-fence technology. His interest in tracking began with a dog that kept escaping; it later led to Smart Package Room and iPickup, systems that help people collect deliveries in residential buildings and retail settings. An economics graduate, Ned says he had to stop leaving the technical discussions to others and learn more of how his products worked.
In his interviews, Ned connects product decisions with the realities of building a company. Discussing package collection, he explains why rising online sales required a different approach to fulfillment. In a financing conversation with David Byrne, he gets into the limits of venture debt and the role of intellectual property and future cash flow. His 2023 award appearance recognizes Position Imaging’s team and its move into multifamily package management.
Ned is willing to revisit his own assumptions. Recalling a Tractor Supply pilot, he says he expected pickup at the back of the store to prompt more shopping. The retailer chose the front; customers valued the easier collection, and some used the time they saved to browse. It is a concrete example of the customer behavior he looks for when testing a product.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Education
University of Massachusetts Amherst
B.S. in Economics.
- 2006
Founded Position Imaging
Established a company focused on precision tracking.
- 2017
Developed Smart Package Room
Applied tracking technology to package collection in multifamily buildings.
- 2023
Accepted Position Imaging’s innovation award
Represented the company at the Multifamily Innovation Awards.
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Ned Hill
Tech Innovator of the Year — Position Imaging
Multifamily Innovation Awards
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