About
Built by engineers who've deployed mesh in real buildings
We are not a consumer smart-home company. Meshkindle builds mesh infrastructure for facility teams managing 1,000+ nodes across office towers, campuses, and hospital systems.
Founding story
Why Meshkindle exists
Felix Brunner spent ten years as a wireless systems engineer, commissioning mesh sensor networks in automotive assembly plants and cold-chain distribution centers across Germany and the US Midwest. The same problem surfaced in every facility: the mesh hardware worked, but the software layer between the sensors and the BMS was always a brittle custom integration that broke when someone updated the BMS firmware.
In early 2022, Felix relocated to Boston and founded Meshkindle to build a hardware-first, protocol-native mesh stack with BACnet/IP and Modbus TCP integration that ships in the box — not bolted on afterward. The company has been bootstrapped since day one. No investor timeline, no pressure to ship half-finished features to hit a funding milestone.
Every hardware decision is made for the facility engineer who will commission it at 6 AM on a Tuesday, not for a trade-show demo. Every protocol choice reflects what actually works inside concrete-and-steel buildings with 2.4 GHz interference from hundreds of Wi-Fi access points.
"A chiller room does not care what's trending in consumer IoT. It needs a mesh that holds its RSSI margins at -70 dBm through a concrete equipment slab, reports anomalies to Niagara via BACnet objects that already match the BMS point database, and survives a firmware update without dropping a single node. That is what we build."
— Felix Brunner, Founder & CEO
Team
The people behind Meshkindle
Spent a decade deploying wireless sensor networks in automotive and distribution facilities across Germany and the US before founding Meshkindle in 2022. Holds a degree in electrical engineering from TU Munich.
Former principal firmware engineer at a process-automation vendor, where she led the BT 5.x radio stack for sub-1000-node factory floor deployments. Joined Meshkindle in 2022 to build the multi-protocol co-radio architecture behind the MK-GW-1000.
Fifteen years commissioning BMS deployments for commercial real estate and institutional facilities — from hospital HVAC controls to campus energy management systems. Leads every Meshkindle site survey and pilot installation.
Built MQTT-SN and CoAP pipeline infrastructure for two earlier IoT platform startups before joining Meshkindle. Leads MeshOS firmware development and the REST API layer, with a focus on sub-200ms sensor-to-BMS latency at full mesh scale.
Independently funded. No investor timeline. Long-term product quality.
Meshkindle has been bootstrapped since founding. Every hardware decision is made for reliability, not fundraising milestones. Our product roadmap is driven by facility teams reading commissioning reports, not pitch decks. We ship hardware that holds its node count through a building automation system upgrade — not hardware optimized for a funding narrative.