Fluidmesh Networks was a hardware and software manufacturer of wireless point-to-point networks, wireless point-to-multipoint networks, and wireless

mesh network A mesh network is a local area network topology in which the infrastructure nodes (i.e. bridges, switches, and other infrastructure devices) connect directly, dynamically and non-hierarchically to as many other nodes as possible and cooperate wit ...

s. Fluidmesh products are used in video-surveillance, enterprise, industrial, railway, maritime, and military projects.

Corporate history

Fluidmesh was founded in 2005 by four Italian engineers: Umberto Malesci, Cosimo Malesci, Andrea Orioli, and Torquato Bertani. Fluidmesh was a spin-off company from

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

where Umberto Malesci and Cosimo Malesci were graduate students in the Department of Engineering. In 2005, Umberto Malesci was a graduate student working at the

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is a research institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) and the Artificial Intelligence Lab ...

with Prof. Samuel Madden (MIT) when he developed Fluidmesh's initial software based on the

Roofnet Roofnet was an experimental 802.11b/g mesh network developed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Research included link-level measurements of 802.11, finding high-thr ...

open-source project leveraging Click Modular Router. The Company was initially incubated at the

Politecnico di Milano The Polytechnic University of Milan (, abbreviated as PoliMi) is a university in Milan, Italy. It is the largest technical university in the country, with about 40,000 enrolled students. The university offers undergraduate, graduate, and higher ...

, in

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

. Over the years, Fluidmesh Networks expanded into the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, and obtained exposure on the Italian national press and television as a successful example of innovation-driven entrepreneurship in the high tech space. Within ten years, Fluidmesh had sold and installed approximately 24,000 miles of wireless links. In 2010, Fluidmesh partnered with CCTV camera manufacturer,

Pelco Pelco Incorporated is an American security and surveillance technologies company. Founded in 1957 and headquartered in Fresno, California, Pelco is a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Solutions. The company's products include security cameras, r ...

. In April 2011, Fluidmesh Networks announced it had been acquired by Generation 3 Capital and Waveland Investments, two private equity firms based in Chicago. In 2016, Fluidmesh Networks and

Cisco Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, s ...

announced a partnership to combine

Connected Rail Solutions and Fluidmesh train-to-ground wireless technology into a single solution. On April 6, 2020,

announced its intent to acquire Fluidmesh. The acquisition was completed July 7, 2020.

Products and services

* Trackside WiFi and Mobile Connectivity for Trains and Railroads *

Internet of Things Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communication networks. The IoT encompasse ...

(IoT) for Vessels and Maritime Applications * Wireless Backhaul for fixed wireless networks

References

External links

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