Meshbone

A true wireless mesh backbone

Meshbone technology uses a user-friendly solution in order to create a wireless network using network software it developed itself.

Meshbone initially came into being through the idea of building a hardware device, but after extensive market analysis it seemed that it would be very difficult to add value in a market that already featured so many other hardware players. This is why the company decided to focus on software.

Meshbone recently changed its name from Wishbone. This was a purely marketing-oriented choice as Wishbone (that stands for wireless mesh backbone) is a commonly used English word and it was thought that it might lead to some confusion at a later date. A change of name was considered essential in particular if the company wanted to penetrate other markets in the future.

Even though the Meshbone solution is very widely applicable, here we would like to illustrate just two fields of application. Firstly the big events and concerts for which the provision of network cabling often presents a big problem. Thanks to its technology the company can provide wireless cover for a room without the need for connecting wires between special access points.

Secondly, Meshbone also operates within the domotica segment. Meshbone has entered into a partnership with domVision whereby they supply software so that wireless domotica can be set up anywhere in the house.



A unique aspect of the Meshbone technology is that no central controller is needed when sharing its network. All the nodes are interlinked which means that when one node disappears, it is immediately replaced by the complete network and vice-versa and when a node is added, it is incorporated. This ensures that the network will almost never fail.

Examples

Meshbone also works with Citymesh, a supplier of wireless networks that it supplies with the necessary network software. Citymesh provides total solutions into which the Meshbone network software is implemented.

One example of this type of project is Moobox (mesh out of a box) where fire engines, for instance, are supplied with a mesh node. This Moobox enables the different fire engines to communicate with each other and the fire station when there is a major catastrophe. Please note that the fire engines must be located within a certain range of each other.

 

 

Other well-known Citymesh projects offer wireless Internet to different coastal towns and provide wireless installations for the offshore oil and gas market. It was responsible for streaming the images of underwater robots for instance between ships in the shipyard and the control centre on the BP drilling platforms during the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

 

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