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Kontakt.io and Mist Systems Partner to Simplify Deployments and Management of End-to-end IoT Solutions
Kontakt.io,
a leading BLE (Bluetooth® Low Energy) infrastructure and
solution provider, announced today a partnership with Mist
Systems, a pioneer in self-learning networks powered by Artificial
Intelligence, to simplify the design, deployment, and management of IoT
solutions. By combining Kontakt.io's IoT platform (launching at
Mobile World Congress (News - Alert), 2019) with Mist's AI-driven Wireless LAN
(WLAN), joint customers have a seamless solution for accurate IoT device
location that leverages standards-based Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
technology. This maximizes the ROI of strategic digitization projects
while ensuring widespread applicability across various industries,
including the industrial manufacturing, healthcare, and enterprises.
Deploying an IoT solution is a complex and resource-consuming project,
requiring the orchestration of tags, gateways or access points, and
management platforms that receive data, locate devices, store data, and
provide analytics. These deployments often involve custom development,
integration, manual calibration and testing, which significantly delays
the rollout and increases the cost of IoT projects. What is more, the
traditional way to scale a deployment or increase tracking accuracy is
to add more gateways or access points, which brings further cost and
complexity.
The joint Mist and Kontakt.io solution addresses these challenges in
numerous ways. Kontakt.io's next generation IoT Platform combines
complex RTLS, IoT, and Workflow Management technologies to deliver
user-centric, data-driven end-to-end solutions. Using accurate location
positioning and sensor data, the platform analyzes and turns data into
actionable reports and workflows that facilitate decision-making and
drive business outcomes.
The Mist
Learning WLAN is a single, converged cloud-based microservices
platform for Wi-Fi and BLE indoor location services, that eliminates the
need for expensive overlay platforms and battery powered gateways for
asset location and user engagement. Mist's patented virtual BLE (vBLE)
technology leverages unsupervised machine learning along with a
16-element vBLE antenna array to deliver high accuracy location for any
BLE device with very low latency, such as Kontakt.io tags or IoT devices
with embedded BLE capabilities. Mist provides location and telemetry
information, such as dwell times and visits, for assets and IoT devies
via standards-based protocols.
The partnership brings integration of both solutions, enabling seamless
location and sensor data flow from BLE tags to Mist gateways, to the
Kontakt.io IoT Platform. This enables Kontakt.io's customers to leverage
Mist's flagship BLE coverage and low latency to significantly reduce the
number of required access points while achieving outstanding accuracy.
Additionally, Mist's customers can use their existing wireless
infrastructures to connect to the Kontakt.io's IoT platform and rapidly
roll out an IoT solution.
"With the advancing consumerization of enterprise technologies,
companies expect end-to-end solutions that are easy to deploy, use, and
scale," says Philipp von Gilsa, CEO at Kontakt.io. "Bringing the missing
convergence of various proprietary infrastructures is one of the steps
Kontakt.io is taking to simplify enterprise IoT. We are excited to have
Mist as our partner on that mission."
"Mist is committed to working with market leaders like Kontakt.io to
facilitate the mass market adoption of indoor location services using
standards-based BLE technology," said Bob Friday, CTO and co-founder of
Mist. "Through alliances like this one, Mist makes indoor location
services easy to adopt and scale and is paving the way for mass market
adoption across a wide range of industries."
Availability
The technical integration of Kontakt.io and Mist Systems is currently in
progress. To further expedite time-to-market, both companies are
preparing joint out-of-the-box product bundles.
To learn more about the integration or end applications join Kontakt.io
and Mist webinar
on March 7th at 10 am PST or contact Kontakt.io at kontakt@kontakt.io
and Mist at info@mist.com
Supporting Resources:
About Kontakt.io
Kontakt.io simplifies enterprise IoT from device to end solution. Our
best-in-class Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) hardware, gateways, and cloud
middleware together form the "Infrastructure" - the cornerstone for
thousands of location-based applications found today in every major
industry vertical. In February, at the Mobile World Congress 2019,
Kontakt.io will be releasing its next generation IoT Platform. As an
end-to-end and hardware-agnostic IoT solution built on top of our robust
Infrastructure, it will vastly reduce the complexity of current
enterprise technologies and drive business outcomes.
By combining IoT, RTLS, and workflow management, the Platform will
enable businesses to digitize their physical workflows and make them
data-driven and transparent, thereby improving efficiency, reducing
operating costs, and creating safer working environments. Since 2013,
Kontakt.io has led the BLE market of IoT deploying over 1.5 million
devices and supporting a loyal partner and customer base of over 20,000
globally. To learn more, visit www.kontakt.io.
About Mist Systems
Mist is a leader in AI for IT with the first and only AI-driven wireless
platform with virtual IT assistant. The Mist Learning Wireless LAN makes
Wi-Fi predictable, reliable and measurable by providing unprecedented
visibility into the user experience and by replacing time consuming
manual IT tasks with proactive automation. In addition, Mist brings
enterprise-grade Wi-Fi, BLE and IoT together to deliver personalized,
location-based wireless services without requiring battery-powered
beacons. All operations are managed via Mist's modern cloud architecture
for maximum scalability, agility and performance.
The Mist team consists of leading experts in wireless, data science and
cloud, who are responsible for building the largest and most advanced
networks in the world. Founded in 2014, the company is based in
Cupertino, CA and funded by top investors, including Lightspeed Venture
Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, GV (formerly Google (News - Alert) Ventures), and
Kleiner Perkins. For more information, visit www.mist.com.
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