Cloud Managed Sensor

Real-time visibility into IT environments made simple

Protect your critical IT infrastructure through the power of the Cisco Meraki platform and simple-to-deploy Meraki MT sensors

Maximize network uptime and equipment lifespan

Real-time visibility and alerts give you control over your environment. Ensure optimal conditions and minimize risk with remote monitoring and flexible alerting.
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Gain value in less time

Quickly provision and manage thousands of sensors to monitor temperature, humidity, leaks, and intrusion. Simply insert the batteries and add to the dashboard. MT sensors automatically connect to existing MR and MV devices. Say good-bye to on-premise servers, dedicated gateways, and management software.

Drive smarter decisions through data

Understand trends about your physical environment. Improve safety, security, and operational decision-making through a data-driven approach. Build on top of the Meraki platform using APIs or the vast ecosystem partner community and further enhance operations.
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Secure IoT devices seamlessly

Each Meraki MT sensor features a Trust Anchor module (TAm), which securely authenticates the device and encrypts all communication with the sensor gateways. Combined with automated firmware updates, Meraki MT sensors pack a powerful security punch in a smart package.

Features

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Centralized cloud management

The Meraki dashboard provides secure monitoring and management of all your Meraki products—from MRs to MVs to MT sensors—from anywhere in the world.
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Flexible alerts

Set customized thresholds for devices and receive alerts via SMS, push notifications, email, or use webhooks to connect to your platform of choice.
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Automatic Bluetooth connectivity

Using 2.4 GHz Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), sensors automatically connect to MV and MR devices in the same network.
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Seamless setup and installation at scale

Wire-free installation, flexible mounting options, and automatic pairing makes it easy to provision thousands of sensors in a short amount of time.
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Onboard storage

Five days of onboard storage keeps data safe in the event of an outage.
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Long battery life

Field-replaceable AA batteries, with up to five years of battery life, provide one less thing to worry about.
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Open API

Automate analysis outside of the dashboard, link to third-party services, and aggregate MT data with information from other business systems.
Secure and up to date

Secure and always up-to-date

Trusted Anchor module (TAm) enables a secure key to exchange data between the gateway and sensor. Automatic firmware updates keep things running smoothly.

Harness the power of the Meraki platform

harness the power of the meraki platform

Simple to deploy

Meraki MT sensors connect automatically to existing MR or MV devices.

Cloud-managed

The magic of Meraki comes to the IoT sensor world; the Meraki dashboard makes it easy to configure and manage multiple sites from anywhere.

Customisable to your needs

Flexible alert options, including webhooks and APIs to aggregate sensor data with other business information systems in third-party applications.

Cloud-Managed Security & SD‑WAN

A smarter WAN in seconds

100% centralised cloud management for security, networking and application control.
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Safety, fast

Cisco Meraki Security Appliances can be remotely deployed in minutes using zero-touch cloud provisioning. Security settings are simple to synchronise across thousands of sites using templates. Auto VPN technology securely connects branches in three clicks, through an intuitive, web-based dashboard.

Auto-provisioning between sites

The MX appliances elegantly create a framework for Cisco SD-WAN powered by Meraki by securely auto-provisioning IPsec VPN tunnels between sites. The Meraki dashboard automatically negotiates VPN routes, authentication and encryption protocols, and key exchange for all Meraki MX appliances in an organisation to create hub-and-spoke or mesh VPN topologies.
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The Meraki MX includes a complete, robust feature set straight out of the box. No additional purchase required.

Every Meraki Security Appliance supports several features, explore them below.
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Identity-based firewall

Automatically assigns firewall and traffic shaping rules, VLAN tags and bandwidth limits to enforce the right policies for each class of users.
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Intrusion prevention

Protects critical network resources from the latest security threats and vulnerabilities.
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Auto VPN

Securely connects branch locations using mesh or hub-and-spoke topologies. Provides simple VPN access into Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
content filtering

Content filtering

Block undesirable web content across 70+ categories and leverage cloud lookups to filter billions of URLs.
advanced malware protection

Advanced malware protection

Protect your network against malware using the latest threat intelligence, and identify previously unknown malicious files with retrospective detection.
high availability and failover

High availability & failover

Provides device and connection integrity through multiple uplinks, warm spare failover and self-healing VPN.
application visibility and control

Application visibility & control

Identify which applications are being used, and then prioritise critical apps while limiting recreational apps.
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Centralised management

Seamlessly manage campus-wide Wi-Fi deployments and distributed multi-site networks from a single pane of glass.

Built in SD-WAN

Software-defined WAN capabilities in every security appliance reduce operational costs and improve resource usage for multi-site deployment. Network administrators use available bandwidth more efficiency and ensure the highest possible level of performance for critical applications without sacrificing security or data privacy.
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Intuitive centralised management

The Meraki dashboard enables network administrators to view networked clients, bandwidth consumption and application usage across all sites – and push policies to block, shape or whitelist activity to optimise performance and user experience. Deep visibility and control provides real insight from any Internet-accessible device.

How VTNZ leverages SD-WAN

Learn how New Zealand’s largest vehicle inspection company leverages Cisco Meraki solutions including wireless, switching, SD-WAN, security, cameras and endpoint management for digital transformation and cloud-first strategy.
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Cloud-Managed Smart Cameras

The MV family brings Meraki magic to the enterprise video security world

Impossibly simple to deploy, configure and manage, MV provides reliable security and valuable business insights to organisations of any scale.

Key benefits

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Centralised cloud management

Secure monitoring and management of all your cameras from anywhere in the world, no extra software required.
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Everything’s in the box

With video storage and powerful hardware, there’s no need for an NVR or extra analytics packages.
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Super secure

Cameras automatically purchase publicly signed SSL certificates and all Meraki management data is always encrypted by default.
Bandwidth-conscious

Bandwidth-conscious

Novel architecture places video storage on the camera, not cloud, ensuring critical network activities get the bandwidth they need.

A family of cameras for every deployment

  • Successful deployment in the box
  • Adjust optical and software settings remotely
  • Integrated, high-grade solid-state storage
  • High-definition recording
  • Advanced, mobile-grade processor on each camera*
  • Range of models for multipurpose deployments
  • *On all second generation cameras (with model number ending in 2)
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Cutting-edge architecture

By utilising solid-state storage on each camera, the MV family has removed the network video recorder (NVR) and its complexity from the equation.
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Bandwidth conscious

Use WAN bandwidth only when needed. Less than 50 kbps of metadata streams to the cloud per camera when footage is not being viewed, eliminating excessive WAN usage.

Never stop recording

Since video is stored on the edge, cameras will continue to record even if the network connection fails. Solid-state storage and intelligent software allow for customisable video retention.

Cloud archive options

Make sure every box is ticked with backup cloud archive. 30, 90, 180 and 365 day options are available to suit a variety of sensitive areas and can be purchased and applied to individual cameras in a fleet.

Whenever, wherever

Stream local or remote with automatic network detection. Local streaming video never goes to the cloud, saving bandwidth, while remote streaming video is proxied through the cloud allowing it to be viewed from anywhere.

Secure by default

Our pedigree in networking security ensures that the Meraki MV is built to be secure from the ground up. By default, data is encrypted through every step.
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At rest

Video is encrypted while on the camera, meaning you’ll never have to ask another ‘what if’ again, knowing your video is safe and sound straight out of the box.

In transport

Both local and remote video streams are secured using TLS with AES encryption, and publicly signed certificates. View video natively in your web browser: no plug-ins or additional configuration required.

During management

MV benefits from encrypted management and strong authentication. Say goodbye to flimsy hard-coded passwords and self-signed certificates. Say hello to two-factor authentication and peace of mind.

Beyond just security

MV utilises a powerful onboard processor to analyse video and provide valuable insights without the need to send those video files to the cloud or a local server.
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Motion heat maps

Quickly assess foot traffic in a shop, or monitor where hotel guests are congregating in the lobby. Motion heat maps only require a small amount of metadata, rather than bulky video files, to provide results with big impact.

Object detection

Learn which displays are attracting the most attention, or how many people came into the office last Thursday. Detect people and vehicles using computer vision, and increase accuracy over time through machine learning.

Privacy

All MV analytics functionalities are anonymised to ensure privacy while still providing intelligence. You’ll know that a customer entered your shop at 3:38, but not that her name is Sarah.

Smart at mobility

Power new and improved user experiences with our Wi-Fi 6 Certified technology – offering faster speeds for enhanced application experience, and more capacity for high-density indoor and outdoor environments.
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High-density Wi-Fi, both indoors and out

Our latest Wi-Fi technology provides higher performance and greater efficiency than ever before – even in environments with high client density, like schools.
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Sophisticated performance monitoring and protection

With automated Wi-Fi channels, simple multi-site management and wireless intrusion prevention, our wireless technology is easy to manage and secure at scale.
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Rich analytics for a better experience

Our smart access points provide valuable insights about client devices – helping to identify bottlenecks or build custom location-aware software solutions.

Unmatched visibility

Our cloud-based dashboard provides total visibility into a network’s users, their devices and their applications. This provides the ability to quickly create access control and application usage policies that optimise both the end-user experience and network security.
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Smarter analytics

Our location analytics and reporting features provide real-time statistics to help you better understand foot traffic, and improve customer engagement and loyalty across sites.

Next-generation Wi-Fi products

A complete range of Wi-Fi 6 models – with multigigabit technology – to allow you to optimise wireless access points for a seamless user experience, with faster connections, greater user capacity and more coverage.

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Bandwidth conscious

Use WAN bandwidth only when needed. Less than 50 kbps of metadata streams to the cloud per camera when footage is not being viewed, eliminating excessive WAN usage.

Never stop recording

Since video is stored on the edge, cameras will continue to record even if the network connection fails. Solid-state storage and intelligent software allow for customisable video retention.

Cloud archive options

Make sure every box is ticked with backup cloud archive. 30, 90, 180 and 365 day options are available to suit a variety of sensitive areas and can be purchased and applied to individual cameras in a fleet.