WiFi-Basic is a high-level programming language based on the Basic family of languages with added support for networking and control of hardware interfaces. It runs directly on the application processor in the WiFi-IT! family of 802.11 wireless modules. WiFi-Basic allows for rapid application development with a minimum of up-front learning and engineering costs. While designed for simplicity in structure, WiFi-Basic still allows for sophistication and flexibility in program design.

WiFi-Basic has been optimized to support Wi-Fi operation and the networking standards required to operate with it. Most networking development environments require you to understand the intricacies of a TCP/IP networking stack. WiFi-Basic keeps this to a minimum by abstracting many of these technologies into simple commands that allow you to concentrate on the job of developing your application. By encapsulating the networking and Wi-Fi functions into high-level keywords, WiFi-Basic provides simplicity and power to meet the challenges of program design, maintainability and schedule.

WiFi-Basic comes with its own development environment, based on the Eclipse^® framework that directly supports a graphical interface that generates your initialization code automatically, a syntax highlighting editor, a very fast compiler, a project manager and a full featured debugger that supports both wired and wireless operation. All of these features go a long way to promoting rapid development with low design effort. WiFi-Basic makes it simple to write programs that control hardware sensors and actuators, perform calculations and communicate over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi networks.