Wirepas launches a dedicated connectivity product for beacons

Wirepas Connectivity for Beacons enables wireless connectivity for any beacon device and provides a remote fleet management solution, without extra hardware. In addition, it enables enhanced beacon security, providing protection against beacon spoofing and piggybacking attacks.

The product is ready for any beacon protocol, such as iBeacon or Eddystone. With Wirepas Connectivity for Beacons, the status of the beacons is available 24/7 and the beacons can be remotely configured, without compromising the battery lifetime.

"Wirepas Connectivity for Beacons is a good example of our value proposition. The ability to flexibly optimise the connectivity solution to the needs of the customer’s business case and application is crucial to the development and growth of IoT based business. With our focus on the software we are able to optimise the network according to the actual application requirements", Teppo Hemiä, CEO, Wirepas, summarises.

With Wirepas Connectivity beacons can be inter-connected via a wireless mesh network at any scale. All necessary device-side functionality is included in the Wirepas Connectivity firmware, including the low energy mesh operation, concurrent beacon advertisements and remote beacon management API (Application Programming Interface). The functionalities include status monitoring and remote configuration for the beacons. Wirepas Connectivity for Beacons runs on the same physical layer as Bluetooth thus enabling mesh and beacon functionality to run on the same chipset hardware, concurrently.

"The unique features of Wirepas Connectivity for Beacons provide a perfect fit for efficiently managing beacons. Fully automatic network operation provides easy installation and requires no maintenance for the network. It also enables remote firmware updates that can otherwise be a costly operation for large-scale beacon networks", Ville Kaseva, CTO, Wirepas, highlights.

Wirepas will be showcasing its Wirepas Connectivity and Wirepas Connectivity for Beacons at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona 22^nd-25^th February. Wirepas can be found at Team Finland stand at 1E04 in hall 1. Teppo Hemiä will be available at the stand for media on 24^th February 11am to 1pm.