Long-range Bluetooth IoT Edge Router

San Jose, Calif. November 22, 2017 – Today, Cassia Networks announces its ‘E1000 Bluetooth IoT Edge Router,’ which reduces the cost and complexity of outdated IoT connectivity and drives IoT innovation for industrial, healthcare and wellness, smart city, beaconing and retail, connected senior care and telemedicine, smart schools, and other enterprise IoT applications. Also, the Cassia E1000 Bluetooth IoT Edge Router increases bi-directional, real-time pairing to up to 40 devices, doubles bandwidth capacity, and delivers edge-processing for third-party applications.

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Long-range Bluetooth Router

The E1000 is the premier long-range Bluetooth IoT edge processing router for the IoT enterprise market. It extends Bluetooth low energy (LE) connectivity to over 300 meters (with field testing currently at much longer ranges) without requiring changes to the end devices. Combining the power of Cassia’s patented long-range Bluetooth antenna with Nordic’s Bluetooth 5-certified nRF52832 System-on-Chip (SoC), the router reduces the cost and complexity of enterprise IoT deployments, especially when compared to using costly smartphones or tablets as IoT gateways. In bi-directional mode, the E1000 controls up to 40 Bluetooth LE devices, while in ‘listening’ mode it can listen to many hundreds of devices. “Innovative developers of Bluetooth LE applications are looking for long-range, edge-processing, and IoT management capabilities,” noted Cassia Networks CEO Felix Zhao, “The E1000 router delivers these needed enterprise IoT capabilities.”

Bluetooth IoT for the Enterprise

The E1000 is a wall or ceiling mountable router, designed for the enterprise environment. Also, in an enterprise IoT applications, which may use hundreds of E1000 Cassia routers, seamless configuration, and data is managed using a local server, or the Cassia IoT Access Controller (AC). The Cassia AC displays the status of thousands of connected devices from a single centralized interface. The Cassia AC also provides a network data display, single-click firmware upgrades, device location management, and encrypted end-to-end security.

Bluetooth IoT Edge

The Cassia E1000’s edge processing delivers additional IoT enterprise application performance, security, and IoT capabilities while using the Cassia AC, or in alignment with any cloud computing architecture. For example, the E1000 Bluetooth IoT edge processing relieves the data burden on networks and backhauling to the Internet, delivers linked intelligence between devices, speeds up data analysis and decision-making, and makes real-time device feedback possible in IoT enterprise deployments. “The E1000’s edge routing capabilities solves existing connectivity challenges, especially around IoT data, said Zhao. “Unlocking data at the Bluetooth IoT edge really unlocks innovation.”

Further, Bluetooth LE is a worldwide standard with billions of new sensors and devices deployed every year. The Cassia E1000 edge processing, long-range, and multiple bi-directional connections further liberates Bluetooth LE data. Coupled with Bluetooth’s ease of use, low power, ultralight weight, and extremely low price point the Bluetooth 5-certified Cassia E1000 deepens the “connection density” of Bluetooth IoT into existing infrastructure reducing installation costs, and is positioned for additional features and application innovations into the future.

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About Cassia NetworksCassia Networks is revolutionizing Bluetooth IoT connectivity with its edge-processing, multi-connection, long-range Bluetooth routers (1000-feet+). Also, in 2017 Cassia first to market with a Bluetooth access controller (AC) aggregating IoT Bluetooth data. Cassia Networks Bluetooth IoT platform is “Transforming Bluetooth into the World’s IoT Solutions™ with proven solutions in connected healthcare, smart buildings, industrial IoT (IIoT), smart schools, IoT sports, and other marketplaces reinventing the way organizations create, operate, and service IoT applications. With Cassia Networks, global manufacturers and an ecosystem of partners and developers are delivering on the promise of the IoT today and driving the future of innovation.

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