VivaSpot with Clover is an advanced Wi-Fi and Point of Sale (POS) solution bundle that securely drives customer traffic, intelligence, engagement, and transactions, all while lowering your acquisition and operational costs.

Ready to go out-of-the-box, this bundled Wi-Fi POS solution ensures reliable, secure, and PCI-Compliant wireless payment transactions through all methods available (cash, checks, mobile device, and cards that swipe, dip and tap). Take payments wirelessly on the move or at the counter, safely and securely, through several different POS device models which come pre-installed with essential business tools and can also be customized with more than 100 apps to help run your business better. 

With Cisco Meraki Wi-Fi, VivaSpot with Clover gives you more visibility into your existing customers, helps pull in new prospects around your local business, and engages with customers in a branded and automated way to maximize repeat business and enable speedy and secure transactions. Customers engaging with VivaSpot Wi-Fi will receive coupons and rewards that incent return visits and are easily validated and redeemed through a built-in and integrated redemption application on Clover. This seamless integration drives increased profits through additional revenue and lower operational costs.

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Splash Access allows you to automatically provision a custom splash page solution that integrates into the Meraki cloud instantly. Splash Access also collects data (name, email addresses etc.) and integrates into APIs from several major marketing tools like MailChimp, Twilio, and social networks like Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. 

Once this data is collected, you can then create, manage and implement targeted proximity marketing campaigns to wireless visitors. Proximity Marketing is the ability to provide a smartphone user with digital information based on their physical proximity to an object. For example, a person walks into a store and stands near a shoe display. The proximity marketing system will provide information to their app about the shoes on sale, or other marketing information. The user has to install our app to receive beacon signals and trigger notifications. We’ve created our Proximity App for this purpose, so you have no development cost. We provide the tool to manage notifications - what content should show when and where. 

Splash Access is suited for hotels, retail outlets, shopping Centres, outdoor wireless events, exhibitions, concerts and any other visitor based Wi-Fi hotspots. Splash Access is an Information Technology company based in the UK providing Web Development, Computer Support and Bespoke Application Development to small and large business customers. 

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API is the new CLI, and Postman is the new Putty. We’ve compiled every Dashboard API call into a single collection to save you hours of setup in your Postman. If you haven’t tried Postman, get it now.

This collection of API calls provides an easy way to interact with a Cisco Meraki network. Update your environment variables to efficiently use the collection.

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Meraki organization admins can use the Dashboard API to quickly update their networks using command line tools, scripts, or the free tool Postman. This API is used by Meraki customers to automate IT tasks. The Cisco Meraki Dashboard API is a modern, RESTful API using HTTPS for transport and JSON for object serialization. It is similar to other modern web APIs such at Github’s, Stripe’s, and Trello’s. Support for other protocols, if required, can be provided by an adaptor on the client side.

The API key is associated with your Organization administrator accounts. Once enabled, you can generate, revoke, and regenerate your API key on the my profile page of the Dashboard. Online documentation that is kept automatically up-to-date with changes in the API can be found by going to Help > API docs.

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Meraki provides an API that allows you to export the location data to your own application. This sample app shows will show you how to get started using the Cisco Meraki Location API with an app you can really build in 10 minutes. 

The API lets organizations have access to the raw data used by the Meraki dashboard. With access to the raw data there are some major benefits. The full device identities are included, facilitating lookup by other applications by MAC address or IP address. The data is provided with only a short delay between it being created and presented to the API. 

The Scanning API allows for software to be developed that are location and identity aware. User identity can be linked to devices, location awareness becomes bound only by the geographical dispersion of your access points (AP). The Scanning API providdes X,Y coordinates and latitude and longitude values. You can now track any device in Cisco Meraki’s headquarters in San Francisco with the Location demo app.

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Track Bluetooth badges around the Cisco San Francisco office

This lab exercise will get you started with the Meraki Dashboard API using a free tool, Node-RED, to make REST API calls to the Meraki dashboard. Answer all questions using Node-RED and API calls. You will need to login to dashboard to view your changes have taken effect.

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This lab exercise will get you started with the Meraki Dashboard API using a free tool, Postman, to make REST API calls to the Meraki dashboard. Answer all questions using Postman and API calls, no Dashboard use please! You can access the latest API reference docs here: https://dashboard.meraki.com/api_docs

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Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen-as-a-Service™ (MaaS) – the only fully integrated services platform that enables brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime anywhere users.  Phunware has introduced category defining experiences that challenge the outer limits of the most advanced connected devices for the world’s most respected brands.

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Phunware’s Blue Dot SDK is fully compatible with iOS and Android and pinpoints a device’s location to real-world latitude, longitude and floor. When Phunware’s Blue Dot functionality is combined with their platform Mapping, Navigation, and Wayfinding, visitors see their position on a rich map—and they get routed to their destination in real time. 

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oNomatic Consulting specializes in data integrations, whether you’re collecting customer emails, pulling from APIs, or buying and selling 3rd party data. It’s a complicated data world and onNomatic can help you navigate and optimize it.

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This document describes the protocol flow, configuration process and example use-cases for self-hosted captive portal (splash page) access, which is relevant for Wi-Fi hotspot provision by retailers, hospitality owners and service providers. The Meraki external captive portal (EXCAP) architecture allows for a user to be re-directed to an external captive portal where the hotspot provider can show a custom web page, targeted advertising, etc. The user can then click on a link to be granted web access.

Case Study: Use Meraki API to update Umbrella

Cisco Umbrella applies protection and reporting based on your public IP address. With a Cisco Cloud-managed Meraki network, if your public IP changes there is now an easy way for Meraki to update Umbrella. Cisco engineer Tim Roth used the python script from Meraki’s Developer Github to automate the updates.

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