Starting today
In Germany we now start the HotSpot Beta Version. The airfy HotSpot Beta offers free and secure Wi-Fi to customers.
Owner protection
All friends and customers who use your airfy WiFi can surf from the airfy HotSpot via a VPN tunnel to our servers before they access the internet. This gives you the additional peace of mind of not being liable for the activities of other airfy users. airfy allows you to provide WiFi with a two-fold safeguard.
Security for every guest
Every Wi-Fi Guest gets his own personal WPA2 Wi-Fi password.
WHY iBEACON IS USELESS WITHOUT ADDITIONAL WIFI HOTSPOTS
Today the iBeacon's make big news again. We are happy about this because it shows that there is a big interest in this topic.
We at airfy offer WiFi HotSpot's and Bluetooth Beacons. Two different products but why are they important to each other?
Why does my phone need a fast internet connection when playing with beacons?
Beacons just send out a unique ID and the app on your phone requests data from the internet "what's behind that ID". That can be just text, images or a video.
Whats the Problem?
When you are inside a store your mobile data network trough 3/4G is working badly because you are covered with walls made of steel and stone from the house you are inside. For the smartphone app that is talking with the beacon it's important to have a fast data connection.
How to solve that?
The solution is easy: offer free secure WiFi to your friends and customers. We at airfy think that this combination is the key to really offer a good service to your customers. The smartphones have fast internet and the apps talking with the beacons can get data fastly to offer a perfect user experience.
Right now we are on indiegogo with our product family and our goal is to offer free secure WiFi in every city - starting in your home and at all places you like. You can buy beacon's and HotSpots from airfy.
Thanks for the great time at TechCrunch and Pioneers
It was quite a crazy week coming to a end today. From Monday to Tuesday we visited TechCrunch Disrupt in Berlin. Wednesday and Thursday we had a very good time at Pioneers Festival in Vienna.
PS: Because most startups came across with a rollup, we decided for heavy metal and 1 or 2 displays
Find out what you can do with Bluetooth Low Energy
This post will show you new opportunities provided on the basis of airfy Beacon using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology. They are ideas enabled by BLE. Consider it a source of inspiration for your own ideas. You also can download this blog post as a PDF.
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The New Buzzword: Proximity
BLE now provides a cheap and technologically simple means to determine where you are. The Beacon is cheap and battery-powered. Never before was it so easy to trigger location-dependent actions.
Open API
You have access to all airfy Beacons throughout the world. Develop your own apps and use the airfy Beacons through the open API. You can detect airfy Beacons and read from our database which action is behind them.
How does a beacon work?
A Beacon transmits a unique number to the smartphone via Bluetooth. Pairing is not necessary. The device will then access the information stored on this ID from the airfy server and can process it through an app (e.g. the airfy app). What makes this unique is that it is not necessary to pair with a Beacon; instead, each Beacon can be detected.
Let's go:
1) IFTTT Trigger
Use the Beacon to trigger an IFTTT event.
2) Customers can buy something in your shop, even if it’s closed.
Let’s say someone is standing in front of your shop window and has fallen in love with an item. Using airfy Beacon technology, you can make it possible for your customers to buy the item over their smartphone. The product will then be sent conveniently to them at home.
3) A beacon near your door
So, you leave your apartment – you set up the alarm, all the lights go off, the heating adjusts itself – all of this happens automatically via an app and connected systems.
4) Automatically switching the light on and off
The Philips HUE LED lamp with integrated wi-fi support enables the light to be switched on and off wirelessly. It even includes IFTTT support. Create a formula using airfy Beacon quite simply over IFTTT to switch on the light automatically when you enter a room. Of course, it also goes off automatically as soon as you leave the room. All you need to do is position a few Beacons in the right places and there’ll be no need for a light switch any more. PS: Combine this with a light sensor on the window, and already you have yourself an automated house.
5) Indoor Navigation
Whether its a leisure park, a major event, or a shopping mall – you can use a Beacon anywhere your guests are likely to get lost to provide them with a means of navigation. The app on the smartphone recognizes where it is and can display important tips and even show precisely where you are on a map – all without using GPS. This enables it to also be used in enclosed spaces.
6) Point of sale – offers at the right time.
Let's say you have a shop with different sections. Place a Beacon in each section and your customers can receive suitable offers directly on their smartphone. A customer stays for ten minutes in the sports section – how about a
7) Save something easily, simply by holding the smartphone near it.
Imagine you're in Ikea. Imagine that you no longer had to note down each item, but that you could simply hold your smartphone up to the item and it would be saved on your phone right away. This is possible with BLE. You can connect actions with different distances.
8) Automatically set all smartphones to silent in the movie theater.
There's nothing more annoying than a smartphone going off when you're watching a great movie. With airfy Beacon, you can automatically set all smartphones to silent. A short notification is displayed, you confirm it, and that's the end of that annoying ringing.
9) Push Messages
Provided that the user wants it, the Beacon can send them a certain message as soon as they are nearby. A note when you get house, a comment on a certain place like in a museum – the opportunities are limitless.
Free for All
The best thing about airfy Beacon is that it is cheap and there is an open API that you can access through your app. You have access to every airfy Beacon throughout the world.
Visit airfy at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin on 28th & 29th October
Find out how to use wireless technology in a new way.
airfy is a technology which allows you to supply secure WiFi for free to your friends and customers. Imagine having the feeling of home WiFi anywhere in the world. airfy is a new HotSpot concept for WiFi - visit us at the Startup- and Hardware alley to learn more about airfy.
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