Blogs
Automatic provisioning with Meraki is now live within the Purple Portal
We work with a number of enterprise-sized businesses across the world, many of which have thousands of access points across multiple locations. Manually configuring that many access points is a daunting task for any engineer. So, to help our customers tackle this issue, we have introduced automatic provisioning for Meraki…
Australia fighting for free WiFi to increase tourism
The top Australian tourist body, Tourism Australia is campaigning for all Australian hotels to offer free WiFi and end expensive in room internet access. They are not lobbying to cut costs for tourists though, their main aim is to encourage tourist to share their stories and photos with friends on…
August Purple Updates
August is proving to be a very busy and productive month at Purple, and we have a large number of exciting new features going live. These include: Access Media Insertion Introduce a new revenue stream by monetizing your guest WiFi login experience through Access Media Insertion. So what is Access…
Attend Intrinsic and Cisco workshop at CityLabs Manchester to prepare for IoE
Your WiFi network has never been so important. Most organisations are getting ready to implement a WiFi network ready for the Internet of Everything with many asking how they can be fully prepared. Intrinsic and Cisco are hosting a free workshop on Thursday 2nd July at CityLabs, Manchester. Register for…
Atea join the Purple partner network
Purple has formed a new technology partnership with Atea, Northern Europe’s market leader in IT infrastructure. Atea are a large IT integrator and transformation specialist with 7,400 employees and 4,000 consultants located in 87 offices. Located in seven countries —Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, Atea offers a…
Asset Tracking: What is it, how does it work, and what are the benefits?
The world of digital healthcare is quickly becoming vital to the survival of healthcare facilities. See how asset tracking works and the possible benefits.
What is Asset Tracking?
Asset tracking can help prevent your equipment from getting misplaced. If you want to learn how to keep tabs on your business equipment, this101 is for you.
Ask the experts: just how close is the Internet of Everything?
Last month Gavin gave us an overview of the “Internet of Things” (also known as the “Internet of Everything”) and what it could mean for everyday life. But how far from the revolution are we? We spoke to some experts to find out. You’ve probably heard it being mentioned a few…
Artificial intelligence, is it good or bad? Discuss.
Artificial intelligence; friend or foe? Imagine technology that could train a webcam on users while they are watching a political debate in the audience. Tracking their smiles, frowns and angry gesticulating, in order to measure their levels of agreement, confusion, horror or amusement and comparing their reactions to others. This…
Armature Works enhances its guest WiFi experience with Purple
Today Purple announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with mixed-use event space Armature Works.
Arena WiFi: Understand your fans and drive superior engagement
Easily managing online experiences has never been easier than with arena guest WiFi solutions - Boost incremental revenue and capture highly valuable feedback
Are you WiFi Aware?
The Wi-Fi Alliance recently launched a certification program for a new technology and standard called Wi-Fi Aware. But what does this mean? What is Wi-Fi Aware? Wi-Fi Aware is an always-on technology that enables devices to discover other nearby devices, applications and information. We think this short video from the…
Appsbroker and Purple Join Forces to Drive Tangible Business Growth for Customers with insightNOW
Appsbroker and Purple have joined forces to drive tangible business value and growth for their customers through real-time business intelligence solutions.
Apple shows how Wi-Fi is becoming the new age of Proximity Marketing
Over the weekend Apple splashed out a $20m acquisition of the start-up company WiFiSLAM, in a great effort to increase its location and mapping capabilities after Google Maps put Apple Maps to shame earlier on this year. The Android mobile phone application includes indoor navigation for some shopping centres and…
Apple randomise MAC addresses with iOS 8 … or did they?
Some big news from Apple recently was the announcement that with iOS 8 they would be randomizing MAC addresses of devices when scanning for WiFi. We were all expecting this change as part of the iOS 8 release. HOWEVER Early testing by Purple WiFi and others has revealed that random…