WiTTRA Networks AB – Offering a range of technologies to cover most conceivable use cases within IoT

Wittra^® Networks AB was founded as a consequence of the team’s tireless research, insight, and ongoing development. Since that time, Wittra^® technology has gained significant traction in the IoT industry and received several prestigious awards for its ground-breaking technology in location intelligence. WiTTRA Networks AB provides a technology platform for product developers which enable fast time-to-market with a long range, secure wireless sensor network. Their hardware is developer friendly, and is also available for volume production – pre-packaged for field deployment, pre-certified, standards compliant, open source. Sensor data combined with indoor & outdoor positioning provides a unique set of features for asset monitoring applications. This technology is currently protected by 51 patents, making it possible to seamlessly track assets between the indoor and outdoor spheres, no matter what the environment. The next step has been to utilize emerging standards to create products with the right market fit. As a result, Wittra^® has launched its first applications into the market, providing a simple, practical solution for keeping track of your things. All thanks to a bicycle.

Connect - Sense - Locate: The only IoT Infrastructure you will ever need

WiTTRA IoT OUT OF THE BOX: It is a wireless IoT sensor network kit with a cloud-based API that can be deployed on a site to monitor objects and assets. The ruggedized kit enables users to connect, sense, and locate their assets in the toughest environments such as heavy industrial sites and areas of weak connectivity. The use of sub-GHz frequency bands provides long transmission range and enables the signal to penetrate dense building infrastructure. With pre-certified hardware, the kit is secure, easy to deploy and ready for field deployment.

TrakSense360: It is a small, wireless multi-function asset tracker with multiple built-in and click-on sensing capabilities. It is fully certified and ruggedized, ready to deploy into tough industrial environments where other wireless IoT technologies struggle with range and/or connectivity. The advanced functionality of combining both location and sensor data enables customers to Connect, Sense and Locate assets anywhere to create true Digital Twins covering a wide variety of assets, to help digitalise the business and drive efficiency and productivity gains on a large scale. WiTTRA’s choice of building on open source software and global standards reduces the risk for customers, by promoting interoperability and reducing vendor lock-in. The TrakSense360 is truly future-proof by design and employs a unique "Lego" concept with a variety of click-on sensors and sensor interfaces, enabling thousands of third-party industrial sensors to be seamlessly added to the system.

WiTTRA Mesh Router: It is a small, wireless “anchor point” that forms part of the 6LoWPAN mesh network on a local site. Mesh routers work together to extend and scale the network coverage to suit any shape or size of site, indoors, outdoors, underground or in 3 dimensions upwards in a multi-level building. The WiTTRA Mesh router relay both sensor data and positioning data from the TrakSense360 tags to the Gateway. Depending on where the TrakSense 360 tag is located, this data might reach the Gateway with a single “hop” through the mesh network, or several hops. This “multi-hop” capability is what makes the mesh network so powerful, because it scales seamlessly to fit the site. It also increases the reliability of data delivery to the Gateway - if a single mesh router goes offline (for example a power failure), other mesh routers automatically take over the routing of data.

WiTTRA C{x}ameleon: It extends hardware life, optimizes inventory costs and reduces waste. The WiTTRA C{x}ameleon methodology is revolutionising IoT through its unique ‘Software Defined Hardware’ approach, which drives sustainability and network flexibility for customers and vastly reduces the amount of inventory needed in any IoT deployment enhancing ROI and Time to Market. The WiTTRA C{x}ameleon is a compact, rugged and IP67 sealed and certified device. It includes several integrated sensors, location functions and a ‘Software Defined Radio’, delivering both sensor and positioning data to the cloud. The WiTTRA C{x}ameleon is produced and shipped as a “blank” WiTTRA device, with no specific “personality” included. The device personality is allocated prior to, or at the time of deployment, and is downloaded from the WiTTRA Gateway via a secure, short range wireless link.

WiTTRA C{x}ameleon can take the functionality of:

TrakSense360: The TrakSense360 is a small, wireless multi-function asset tracker with multiple built-in and click-on sensing capabilities. The device allows you to collect both positioning and sensor data.

Mesh Router: The WiTTRA Mesh Router is a small, wireless “anchor point” that forms part of the mesh network on a local site. Mesh Routers work together to extend and scale the network coverage to suit any shape or size of site, indoors, outdoors, underground even in 3 dimensions upwards in a multi-level environment.

Positioning Beacon: Positioning Beacons offer the functionality of both ToF and RSSI. ToF (Time of Flight) positioning involves measuring the distance between a TrakSense360 and several Positioning Beacons using accurate timing signals. RSSI (Relative Signal Strength Indicators) measures signal strength to work out positioning. Positioning Beacons cannot transmit sensor data, they are purely positioning devices.

The Leader Upfront

Håkan Dackefjord is the founder and Chief Commercial Officer of WiTTRA Networks AB. He previously worked at Nidatech AB as a CEO. Mr. Dackefjord is the innovator of 89 patents/patent applications, distributed on 19 patent families.

"Through the use of WiTTRA’s Network and hardware solutions we help our clients reach their sustainability objectives and reduce their carbon footprint through the use of the analytics provided."