Integration: Meraki Access Points

Integration with Cisco Meraki Wi-Fi infrastructure to use to detect Sensolus BLE tags or trackers with BLE beaconing enabled.

Meraki, a division of Cisco builds enterprise WIFI infrastructure solutions. Some of their access points also support Bluetooth tag detection. This opens interesting opportunities where the access point infrastructure is used to detect BLE tags or trackers where the BLE beaconing is enabled. One of the interesting qualities of the Meraki solution is that it comes with a location resolution engine which can do a more precise location resolution than snap to nearest access point. So, Meraki has access points and a controller. The controller does the location resolution, it will send the tags seen by the system as a whole periodically. If it can do triangulation it will give a detailed location, otherwise the name of the nearest access point

This solution is very similar to the Aruba solution with the big difference that instead of using the access point location the Meraki controller will report a location directly.

Enter/exit handling system with Meraki

The enter/exit handling is done for the Meraki system as a whole, so not for separate access points.

• Enter: the first time the tag is seen by the Meraki system
• When the tag is seen again a new location is shown if the new location is more than 1 meter away from the previous location.
• When the system sees the tag again and it is scanned by the same access point, the Meraki system will not be triggered.
• Exit: if none of the access points sees the tag for 3 times the interval.

The Meraki integration has not been fully finalized yet and is available as a prototype. If there is a customer case contact Sensolus to get this configured and setup. It will probably still require a bit of development.