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Wirepas Open 2025

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A technology I haven’t had the chance to talk about until now, mostly because I hadn’t really gotten hands-on with it yet—but one with enormous potential: Wirepas is a managed mesh radio solution, or rather, a radio-agnostic mesh solution. While its most common current use is over BLE at 2.4GHz, it’s far from limited to that.

This week was Open, Wirepas’ annual event, which I had the chance to attend for Rtone, an official Wirepas partner that develops many client solutions using this technology, I work for. So, this is the perfect occasion to share with you the latest updates and my impressions of the event.

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Lots of activity around radio embedded systems (Internet of things)

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We all know that Internet of things is going to be the next revolution and it’s on the way, we also know that this revolution will not come from some main existing IT leaders as IBM, Microsoft, Amazon … ( I won’t say Google, because they are good player here) but from a lot of non existent companies/startups. It’s really interesting to see what is happening on crowd founding place like kickstarter (Ok, Amazon is part of it) these days : for sure we can see Internet of things in creation with a lots of connected gadget founded. But you can also found all the raw material used by the future companies to make this revolution real.

A year ago we had a lot of buzz around Raspberry PI ( and it continue to grow even if I think the reality of this environment is under its promise ) which is an interesting platform like BeagleBoard Black coming this month is. In my opinion these platforms are good to do geeky stuff but suffer of two issues : not natively wireless and consuming too much power. I assume Internet of thinks is mostly mobile and wireless : because I won’t put many cables in my house to connect these objects : I want wifi/battery stuff!

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