Ruckus Wireless, a part of Brocade, last week announced a joint solution with TrackR, a leader in personal item management innovations, that leverages Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology combined with Ruckus ZoneFlex access points (APs) to enhance the indoor and outdoor location services of TrackR’s Crowd GPS network.
Founded in 2009, TrackR via its app software, cloud databases and wireless devices revolutionize how consumers keep track of their items.
Leveraging existing wireless infrastructure, the new integration provides customers and end users with enhanced asset movement detection in real time and provides more robust security features for enterprise, education, hospitality and large public venues.
This new integration showcases how a Ruckus AP can now operate as an Internet of Things (IoT) gateway by supporting additional radio connectivity protocols like BLE for data acquisition from tags and sensors. Ruckus ZoneFlex APs serve as two-way distributed management and asset and security monitoring for TrackR. Ruckus also provides TrackR with the ability to acquire, contextualize and act on the sensor data being collected. As a result, TrackR can monitor devices such as laptops, tablets and mobile phones as well as higher value in-building infrastructure assets like TVs, projectors and other equipment.
According to Ruckus, the installation of this solution enhances security and asset protection by triggering an alarm when devices cross defined geo-fences. This enables an in-building or campus-wide asset tracking solution that leverages the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure, reducing cost and complexity.
In addition to enhancing TrackR’s offering for its end users, the integration will also benefit Ruckus’s partner ecosystem by offering new managed services that take advantage of Wi-Fi beyond basic connectivity. Key ecosystem partners can leverage the new solution to improve operational efficiency and engage customers like never before.
Chris Herbert, CEO & Co-founder of TrackR
Partnering with the experts at Ruckus Wireless will provide our customers with a stronger, more robust Crowd GPS network than ever before, so finding things outside the home will be even faster and easier.
Bart Giordano, VP of Business Deveopment, Ruckus Business Unit, Brocade
With the addition of the new BLE radio option and the BLE Tag tracking solutions from TrackR, we are able to bring new levels of physical security to a wide range of vertical markets that were traditionally the exclusive domain of large infrastructure owners or premium network providers.
