Overview
Device recognition technology is at the core of Fing App - the network scanning and troubleshooting tool downloaded over 35 million times and scanning millions of networks around the world every day. Fing’s Device Recognition technology identifies billions of connected devices quickly and accurately and provides valuable insights about networks and connected devices. Development teams can save substantial time and resources by implementing Fing technology in applications for the connected world.
Fing’s Development Toolkit consists of a Software Development Kit (SDK) for mobile apps and embedded devices that allow developers access to Fing’s proprietary machine learning expertise and unrivaled device identification. The SDK analyses a device’s Wi-Fi network and emits details about the connected devices and Fing’s cloud service identifies specific device properties including make, model, category, operating system and version. Access a snapshot of currently connected and previously connected devices for a given network.
The key benefits for developers are:
- Improve existing user experience which relies on poorly implemented Device Identification, often developed internally.
- Accelerate time to market of products, apps and services that rely on accurate real-time connected device identification.
- Easily integrate non-invasive and light touch network discovery and device recognition capabilities without the need to create low-level networking technology and fingerprinting.
Fing’s proprietary technology leverages an ever-expanding crowdsourced knowledge to understand discovery protocols including Bonjour (Multicast-DNS) queries, UPnP queries, SNMP requests, DHCP monitoring and NetBIOS queries.
Fing’s Device Recognition technology analyses and provides the best match data for each device. Fing’s catalogue currently has more than one hundred types of device ranging from tablets to surveillance cameras. Device types are grouped into eight categories - mobile, entertainment, home & office, network, server, home automation, surveillance, engineering. In addition, Fing provides, in JSON text format, the full set of network details and analysis for each network protocol the devices comply with.
