Why?

Connectivity is infrastructure

IoT solutions consists of 3 parts; the application, the connectivity and the sensors & actuators. Like many other technologies, such as electrical appliances or plumbing fixtures, they are connected using a shared infrastructure technology, like EU-230V / US-110V or plumbing pipes with 1/2″ or 3/4″ thread. In IoT-solutions, the connectivity is the infrastructure that allows you to scale and expand your IoT-solution. It must be chosen carefully, as it will be the platform on which you build on and it will be there for many years.

IoT Connectivity is infrastructure, like plumbing, electricity and GSM/LTE.

Do not choose a patented infrastructure technology

What would happen if the GSM/LTE mobile phone chips was patented by a company called SignalTech? This would cause the worlds connectivity infrastructure to be controlled by a single company (SignalTech). Every company in the world that makes mobile phones or sensors as well as all mobile operators, would have to purchase SignalTech chips in order to make products for the infrastructure! Sourcing security would also be a problem; What if political tensions were to deny the SignalTech to export it’s technology to China or EU? Or what if SignalTech stopped stopped making it’s chip?

The reason standards and free markets exists

The connectivity part of IoT is infrastructure, just like plumbing, electricity, roads and the Internet; Any vendor must be able make applications, connectivity equipment or sensors and applications without paying royalties to anyone. This is what enables the free market and ultimately will benefit the customers.

Just look at the Internet TCP/IP protocol, the GSM/LTE standard, HTML and C programming languages; They have been successful exactly because they are free and open infrastructure technologies that any vendor or customer to use for any purpose whether commercial or otherwise.

Aer Networks

Aer Networks was founded on a simple idea: To address the challenges of interoperability and scalability in the Internet of Things (IoT) industry. The founders of Aer Networks recognized that the IoT market was fragmented, with many different devices, protocols, and systems that were not able to communicate with each other seamlessly.

Creating a unified platform that can bring together different IoT devices, apps, and systems, and enable them to communicate with each other in a scalable and secure way, would simplify the development and deployment of IoT solutions, and unlock the full potential of the IoT market.

In particular, the founders of Aer Networks were motivated by the following challenges:

  • The lack of interoperability between different IoT devices and systems
  • The complexity and cost of integrating multiple IoT devices and systems
  • The limited scalability of existing IoT solutions
  • The need for a more secure and reliable IoT infrastructure
  • The need for an truly open IoT eco-system

By addressing these challenges, we created a platform that enables businesses and organizations to build and deploy IoT solutions quickly and efficiently, and to unlock new opportunities for innovation and growth.

The platform is based on the Z-Mesh protocol, which is Royalty Free and Open Source. That means, any manufacturer can create sensors, networking equipment, and applications on equal terms. No licenses, no patents – just the freedom to innovate.

Z-Mesh – The Free & Open IoT Networking protocol

Z-Mesh is a free, open, royalty-free IoT Networking protocol that anyone can use for any purpose. It is a real networking protocol that allows everything to communicate with everything (the network effect), not just for collecting data like sensor-to-cloud protocols.

End-user

Purchase standard sensors, actuators, networking equipment or applications from any vendor or choose to have your local Systems Integrator create a solution, that you can expand as you go.

Systems Integrator

Z-Mesh is “WordPress for IoT”; A platform that allows you to build IoT solutions faster. Re-Sell value-adds or custom solutions without having to pay qualification or certification fees.

The Network effect

The value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected compatible communicating devices
— Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet

2 telephones can make 1 connection, 5 telephones can make 10 connections, and 12 telephones can make 66 connections!

The value of your IoT solution
can only be unlocked
if any sensor or app can communicate
with any other sensor or app.