US/UK/Canada

Share

Pick a time period -
Tags ( Active)

Altran collaborates with Wirepas to develop Location Based Services solutions

Altran, the global leader in engineering and R&D services, has signed a partnership with Wirepas to extend its range of localization solutions services. As a part of its portfolio, Altran provides solutions to solve asset tracking issues thanks to location-based services leveraging an end-to-end, modular and technology-agnostic architecture, from physical devices to backend platform and applications. This new location-based service (LBS) solution now incorporates Wirepas Mesh and positioning technology to offer a scalable and easy-to-deploy indoor localization solution. Wirepas Mesh

Building massive IoT – Wirepas and Nordic Semiconductor create the world’s densest IoT sensor network

Power efficiency, scalability, reliability and ease of use are some of the most obvious requirements for wireless IoT networks, but as more and more devices are being connected also the requirements for density and interference tolerance are becoming more and more important for end customers. Wirepas Mesh on Nordic SoCs delivers an industry-leading Key Performance Indicator when it comes to density. Wirepas has been able to run a mesh network of 1500 battery-operated nRF52832 radios in a cubic meter without a single packet collision. The capability to run extremely dense networks is a

Wirepas and Silicon Labs Team to Deliver Multiprotocol Mesh Networking Solutions for the IoT

Silicon Labs EFR32 Wireless Gecko with Wirepas Mesh Unleashes Unprecedented Scale, Density and Reliability for Smart Lighting, Asset Management and Smart EnergyCHICAGO (Lightfair International) – May 8, 2018 – Wirepas , a leading provider of mesh software solutions, and Silicon Labs  (NASDAQ: SLAB) today announced they have joined forces to deliver a combined hardware and software solution that unleashes the potential of multiprotocol connectivity for mesh networks. Building on their growing relationship and success in the smart metering

Tieto Empathic Building relies on Wirepas Mesh connectivity

Tieto has licensed Wirepas Mesh for Empathic Building service. Tieto Empathic Building is using Nordic Semiconductor nRF52 radio hardware with Wirepas Mesh network in customer buildings. Tieto Empathic Building service is solving end-user problems in modern working and learning environments like activity-based offices. Relevant data in right location drops unwanted administration and increases user wellbeing and performance. Wirepas Mesh is a de-centralized radio communications protocol for large scale Industrial IoT applications such as smart metering, lighting, asset tracking,

ABI Research: Lindström Group re-inventing workflow optimization with Haltian Thingsee and Wirepas Mesh

ABI Research has published a research article on an innovative new IoT deployment in the area of facility and workflow management. As part of its FlowAbility service, Lindström Group, a leading Finnish multinational B2B textile services provider has implemented an IoT solution to improve customer experience and improve personnel workflow. According to ABI Research Location Technologies analyst Sam McLaughlin - “The FlowAbility Washroom solution will enable the Lindström Group to achieve its strategic goal of improving customer experience, by implementing a low-cost custom sensor design

Antti Koponen appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer at Wirepas

Wirepas, a global device connectivity provider, has appointed Antti Koponen as the new CFO as of Feb 1. Antti is an experienced finance professional with an impressive track record in corporate finance and accounting. He has been leading finance in sales, R&D and sourcing operations - building and re-structuring local, regional and global finance organizations. Before joining Wirepas Antti was the Chief Financial Officer at TNS Group, Espoo, Finland. Before TNS Group he has held various demanding finance positions at Nokia and Microsoft including Head of Finance for Microsoft Global

Wirepas Receives Frost & Sullivan’s 2017 Product Leadership Award

Wirepas was named the recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s 2017 Product Leadership Award in the European Internet of Things market. In its decision to choose Wirepas for the award, Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, highlights the strength and fit-for-purpose of Wirepas Connectivity as a product for Massive IoT, versatility regarding different applications, and the business need-driven approach of the company. “Wirepas focuses on a mutually beneficial partnership with customers, understanding the importance of good relationships with both parties to ensure best-in-class quality

Wirepas Connectivity now available on Telit multifrequency radio module RE866

Wirepas and Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), are launching a new, Wirepas enabled, multifrequency connectivity module to the market. Wirepas Connectivity enables a scalable Wide Area Mesh on the multifrequency Telit RE866 module. The RE866 module contains two radios, allowing customers to use this module either as a Sub-gigahertz (Sub-GHz) or 2.4GHz module. This multifrequency approach is exceptionally fitting for large-scale IoT applications where selecting the correct physical layer is a pre-requisite to achieve the correct balance between density, scale and

Confidex introduces a new asset management tag family with Wirepas Wide Area Mesh Connectivity

Confidex is introducing a new asset management tag family that takes advantage of the benefits of Wirepas Connectivity. It is designed to satisfy the increasing customer need for cost effective logistics solutions operating with unprecedented density and reliability. Based on Nordic Semiconductor’s ultra-low power standard nRF52-series chipset, the all-new upcoming Confidex Viking™ tags track the location of assets and people and can sense the surrounding environment. Founded on over a decade’s experience in industrial wireless identification, Confidex, together with its customers

Norway’s largest DSO, Hafslund Nett reinvents smart metering with a Wide Area Mesh network

Hafslund Nett is currently deploying a smart metering system which will cover 700.000 electricity connections in Oslo area by the end of 2018. IDC (International Data Corporation), the global provider of market intelligence has produced a case study of the unique smart metering deployment. The core of the new smart metering solution consists of Aidon’s energy service devices (smart meters), Aidon’s head-end-system for the collection and management of the data from the smart meters, as well as a communication solution for data delivery powered by Wirepas. “Our new smart metering solution

Wirepas and Rigado offer a unique, configurable IoT gateway solution for wide area mesh

Wirepas has partnered with US-based Rigado, who offers a ready-to-run Gateway for Wirepas Connectivity. Rigado’s configurable IoT Gateway allows customers to customize a gateway solution with the exact wireless protocols, edge compute and connectivity options their use case requires. The Rigado gateway options include low power wireless routing and packet forwarding to the cloud as well as onboard processing capabilities.  Utilizing the local storage and Linux-based edge applications - with built-in support for many popular cloud services - customers can quickly adapt the software on the

Capelon relies on Wirepas Connectivity in Smart Lighting and Smart City infrastructure

Capelon, a leading Nordic street lighting provider, has licenced Wirepas Connectivity for smart streetlight and smart city applications. Smart, connected lighting provides energy and maintenance savings while increasing the quality of light provided to users. At the same time the smart lighting infrastructure can extend the Internet of Things (IoT) to deliver a wide range of applications such as environmental sensing, advertising and indoor position locating. · The reason for Capelon’s decision to choose Wirepas is that the Finland-based company’s business strategy perfectly fits into

Wirepas White Paper: Managing assets through de-centralized IoT networks

Wirepas has today disclosed a white paper on the benefits and new opportunities of using decentralized, or mesh, networks for asset management. The white paper introduces the business and technical requirements for data in various asset management application areas, such as warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, construction and mining. The collected data can be serialized ID based count, location and sensor data. The basic customer needs for the system have been matched with Wirepas Connectivity features. The covered use cases for the application areas, goods-in and goods-out, inventory,

Fujitsu sensor beacons with Wirepas Connectivity offer an easy-to-use IoT module

Fujitsu and Wirepas partner to enable secure, scalable and flexible IoT solutions. The high-quality Fujitsu sensor beacons with Wirepas Connectivity offer an easy-to-use, connected module for various IoT application areas, such as healthcare, industrial automation and smart building. With the Wirepas Connectivity protocol, Fujitsu is now able to offer ready-to-go solutions for various IoT applications – for example a connected sensor beacon with an embedded high-accuracy accelerometer/temperature sensor. The Fujitsu sensor beacon is a small (40 x 31 x 12mm) CR2450 battery cell powered

Andrew Gilbert appointed as new Chairman for Wirepas

Wirepas, a global device connectivity provider, has appointed Andrew Gilbert as the new chairman and Jörgen Lantto as a new member of its Board of Directors. Vesa Laisi has been appointed as a new advisor to the board. Sami Lampinen (managing partner, Inventure), Carl-Erik Mattila (partner, Topnet), Teppo Hemiä (CEO, Wirepas) and Patrick Sheehan (managing partner, ETF Partners) have been reappointed as members of the board. Benedikt Herles (managing partner, Vito Ventures) has been reappointed as a board observer. “Wirepas has uniquely solved, what I believe to be, one of the biggest

Wirepas and m2ocity partner for Smart City IoT applications

Wirepas and m2ocity, the leading French IoT operator, have partnered to provide scalable and reliable connectivity for Smart City applications, such as Smart Street Lighting. m2ocity is constantly looking for and testing new leading edge technologies. They have been satisfied with the results obtained with Wirepas Connectivity. -          We conducted a joint proof of concept project where we were impressed by the results. We were able to send and receive data with 99.9% Service Level Agreement (SLA) for multiple applications without the need for a complex infrastructure setup, Elise

Wirepas Network Tool enables real-time monitoring of device networks at any scale

Ixonos and Wirepas partner for future-proof IoTWirepas has launched the Wirepas Network Tool that enables easy monitoring and visualization of Wirepas enabled device networks. With the Network Tool, the connected devices can be mapped, the structure of the network analyzed and diagnostic parameters visualized over time. As all the Wirepas Connectivity intelligence is in the network, the devices decide the best actions by themselves locally - no central network management is needed. There are, however clear benefits in being able to monitor and gain information about the operations of the

ETF Partners, Inventure and Vito Ventures invest in IoT connectivity company Wirepas

ETF Partners, Inventure and Vito Ventures have invested €4.5 million in Wirepas, a Finnish software company that has solved a major Internet of Things connectivity challenge. In total, Wirepas has raised €10 million in 2016 including loan agreements and an earlier series A investment from Inventure and Vito Ventures. The Internet of Things requires very low-cost, large-scale networks that allow millions of devices to be connected. De-centralized networks, in which each node relays data for the network, fit the bill perfectly, except that developing scalability and reliability have proven

Wirepas and Telit co-operate to provide a unique solution for large scale IOT applications

Wirepas and Telit, an industry leader in end-to end IoT have partnered to bring new, Wirepas enabled, ultra-low power connectivity modules to the market. Together, the two companies are targeting large-scale IoT applications such as asset tracking, smart lighting and logistics. Wirepas technology software with Telit Bluemod+S42 platform at 2.4GHz is a great example of what our new business unit will add to the Telit total IoT solution portfolio,” said Felix Marchal, Executive Vice President of GNSS and Short Range Wireless. “Telit now offers the most scalable sensor-to-gateway-to-cloud

All-new Haltian small sensors utilize Wirepas Connectivity

Haltian expands its Internet of Things (IoT) platform with small sensors. The platform consists of the Thingsee gateway plus the Thingsee POD and TAG sensors. The sensors can be used for tracking and monitoring assets, goods and people in a completely new, and a far more cost-effective manner. The Thingsee router delivers the data collected from the sensors directly to the client’s back-end systems via a mobile connection. "Thanks to its data acquisition capabilities and cost efficiency, we believe that our IoT platform will revolutionize the asset tracking and logistic operations of

Wirepas and u-blox partner for scalable and easy-to-use industrial Internet of Things solutions

Wirepas and u-blox, a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, have partnered to offer an advanced decentralized radio communications solution (comparable with advanced mesh technology) for demanding industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The IoT industry is still quite young and fragmented, making deployment of industrial IoT applications slow and complex for the end customers. The goal of u-blox and Wirepas is to make large scale, decentralized industrial IoT networks easy to deploy for their customers. NINA-B1 

The rise of autonomous device networks – a white paper by Wirepas and Frost & Sullivan

The Internet of Things (IoT) for Industries is transforming both the consumer and the business landscape, offering tremendous opportunities for agile suppliers. However, businesses founded on connectivity across devices, geographies, applications and services require diversity in business models. Each industry and company will need a customized approach to connectivity based on its unique requirement. As a result, the existing “massive IoT” approach of having a common monolithic connectivity solution must be relooked to accommodate the diverse possibilities of connectivity requirements in

Vito Ventures and Inventure invest in Wirepas to close Series A funding

Wirepas, a global device connectivity provider has raised an additional 1.5 million euros in Series A funding from Vito Ventures and Inventure, adding to the initial 1.5 million it raised in August 2015 from Inventure. Wirepas will use the funding to accelerate growth by extending its global presence further, strengthening R&D and building brand awareness. -  We are very excited to back Wirepas’ outstanding team. We are convinced, that the company’s singular technology has the potential to be one of the key enablers in a world of smart and connected things. Being the industrial

There are no items matching the current filter
There are no more items matching the current filter
Back to top

Twitter