Blecon Shows Bluetooth Means Business
Summary
Blecon today announced a $4.6M seed funding round, advancing its mission to unlock the full potential of Bluetooth Low Energy for IoT Connectivity. "Bluetooth has seen unprecedented technical and commercial success as a consumer technology for personal connectivity, with adoption in billions of devices, said Simon Ford, CEO of Blecon. Now, businesses are exploiting those economies of scale and unique low-cost, low-power characteristics for cloud-connected devices, and Blecon is providing the technology to allow them to achieve it.Founded by seasoned IoT experts from ARM, AWS, and Microsoft, Blecon has developed a solution that unlocks Bluetooths potential for commercial IoT deployments. Eliminating the need for 1:1 pairing and enabling both existing smartphones and dedicated cellular hubs to act as hotspots, Blecon leverages the inherent benefits of Bluetooth combined with the deployment model of Wi-Fi and the network model of Cellular.At Wiliot, were embedding Bluetooth into our IoT Pixels, stickers that bring real-time intelligence to everyday itemsfrom supply chains to healthcarein ways that were previously impossible, said Steve Statler, CMO at Wiliot. With its flexible architecture and ease of integration, Blecon democratises access to Bluetooth IoT connectivity.