http://www.arubanetworks.com/pdf/technology/whitepapers/WP_TheMineWithin.pdf
Recently got an email about Meraki’s product, specifically highlighting their analytics capabilities. I’m not much of a Meraki fan myself, too “cloudy” for my tastes; I’m still very much a believer in controlling your own infrastructure. I didn’t dig into the analytics functionality as I don’t have a need at this point, and I’d be very surprised to hear any wireless infrastructure vendor in business today say that they couldn’t do behavior/spatial analytics. I did a quick search on Aruba’s capabilities in that regard just as a quick confirmation and ran across the linked whitepaper.
It did get me thinking/wondering about whether there’s any cohesive effort for similar analytics in the open source space. I’m sure it would be quite do-able given the time and resources. I guess that’s probably the key difference between sales/marketing and tech – the money is where somebody “needs it now”, but the depth of understanding and capability come in when you have the opportunity to build it yourself and really get familiar with the details.