A network with no middle.
Most wireless networks have a centre that every device must reach. A mesh has none, and that one difference explains nearly everything about how this hardware is installed.
Star and mesh.
Think of the Wi-Fi at home. Every phone and laptop talks to the router, and a room the router cannot reach has no signal. Cover a big building that way and you need a router, with power and a cable, every few rooms.
In a mesh, each device talks to the devices near it, and a message travels from one to the next until it reaches a gateway. A device at the far end of a warehouse does not need to reach the gateway. It needs to reach a neighbour.
Wirepas Mesh is a mesh of this kind made for large numbers of small battery devices. It is what Teltonika's mesh range uses, and what InSight Mesh on the Trackerserver platform is built on.
What that means on site.
Anchors without cables
Since an anchor only has to reach its neighbours, it can run on batteries and be fixed wherever it is needed.
One connection to arrange
The site provides Wi-Fi and power for the gateway. Nothing else on the mesh touches the client's network.
Coverage where you put it
A dead corner is solved by adding an anchor there, not by redesigning the network.
Growth without rework
A second hall or another floor is more anchors on the same mesh.
A mesh locates. It does not explain.
The mesh knows which anchors heard which tag, and how strongly. Turning that into a place on a plan, a zone with a name and a rule that sends a message is the work of the software above it.
Next
Enquire about mesh hardware for a first site.
Send us the floor plans, or the size of each floor and what stands on it. We reply with the tags, anchors and gateway it takes, and the platform they report to.