Meshbone news

Together with Joheco, a systems integrator from the Netherlands, Meshbone has developed a virtual fence solution to provide surveillance services. Joheco's customer is a large construction company, who is faced with occurrences of theft or vandalism on their sites. By integrating a powerful camera (both daylight and infrared) with a Meshbone-enabled wireless router, Joheco has created an easily deployable virtual fence solution. Video content is streamed across the wireless mesh to a central on-site location from which all footage may be consulted (through both local and secure remote links).

Meshbone will be providing internet access for the ITEA & ARTEMIS Co-summit 2010. To be held at the ICC in Ghent, Meshbone's solution will be used to deliver access to all attendees across different floors and break-out rooms of the conference center.Eliminating the need to run lengths of cable in the venue, blanket coverage will be provided with a minimal setup time and cost.

As last year, the Meshbone solution will be used in support of the Studio 100 K3 tour across Belgium and the Netherlands in the fall/winter of 2010. In order to provide internet connectivity to cast and crew in all the venues visited by this tour, a Meshbone network is deployed across the backstage areas. The simplicity of deploying a Meshbone network makes it easy for the organization to have an operational network up and running in no time, and tear it down once the shows are over to travel to the next venue...

A Meshbone wireless mesh network was deployed at one of Belgium's largest music festivals, the Graspop Metal Meeting (Jun 24-27 2010). The Meshbone network's primarily use was to connect the handheld scanners at the ticketing counters with the authentication back-ends. A total combined amount of 150.000 barcodes were scanned over the course of 4 days, resulting in a never-before seen absence of large crowds queueing at the entrance booths. The Meshbone network was easily deployed across the scanning posts, and required only one single wired network connection to authenticate the scanned barcodes. Thanks to the performance of the scanning application, Graspop set a new benchmark in ticket scanning for itself and any other festival!

Despite a few hiccups with our wired adsl connection to the internet, the Wishbone network provided access to all the attendees. Luckily, we used a multi-gateway solution, which provided resilience to a wired link dropping out (which was beyond our control), minimizing service interruption!

Wishbone was selected to support the upcoming K3 concerts (in their new lineup!). The wireless mesh network will be used to provide network coverage during 80 concerts in a wide variety of venues in Belgium and the Netherlands through the end of the year.