January ’07 Products
Replacement battery for Mag Ones
Wireless Accessories Unlimited now offers a replacement battery for the Motorola BPR40 Mag One radio. The 1400 mAh NiMH battery features a metal-railed spring belt clip and gold contacts, according to the company.
www.waunlimited.com
Wi-Fi processor
Broadcom Corp. unveiled a new Wi-Fi Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) processor that extends its Intensi-fi family of draft-802.11n solutions. The addition of a GbE controller as well as an increase in the processor’s clock speed can deliver the “theoretical maximum wireless 802.11n performance, nearly eight times that of 802.11g,” according to the company.
www.broadcom.com
AirLink announces new product suite
Fixed- and mobile-wireless data systems provider AirLink Communications announced the X Platform, its next-generation, rugged wireless communications and networking product suite. The first two products are the Raven X and the PinPoint X. Both devices are certified as intrinsically safe for use in hazardous environments, the company said. The Raven has serial and Ethernet interfaces, while the PinPoint has peripheral connections — including serial, Ethernet and USB — as well as a 16-channel GPS receiver. It also meets military standards for vibration, shock, drop, high and low temperature and humidity, according to AirLink.
www.airlink.com
Tracking devices transmit data through GSM
Wireless machine-to-machine technology developer Archetype launched TerraTrace, an asset-tracking system that provides real-time location and status information. According to the company, it uses a small onboard GPS tracking device, which transmits data through wireless GSM frequencies to a secure data center and is accessible by authorized users via a secure Internet connection.
www.archetypecorp.com
Software lets building managers remotely monitor heating systems
Energy conservation technology firm Optimum Applied Systems unveiled its Heat Computer Mobile software, which can be loaded onto mobile devices so building managers can monitor building temperature and detect heating problems from remote locations.
www.oas-inc.com
Rapid response communications kit
Fortress Technologies has developed a next-generation Rapid Response Communications Kit for the Texas National Guard. The kit provides a mobile system for secure wireless communications during emergency situations by integrating Wi-Fi for local access with WiMAX.
www.fortresstech.com
Vehicle tracking map-data system
Digital-map data provider for location-based solutions Navteq announced its map-data system will be used in Datacom Wireless’ Mobilus, a stolen-vehicle tracking system that lets users manage vehicles in real time over the Internet, and in Mobicom, a GPS real-time fleet-management system. The map system offers myriad features, including geofencing (restricting the movement of a vehicle or object to within a specified area), site management, address finding, GPS tracking and historical-trip rendering.
www.navteq.com
www.datacom.com
Radio-wave propagation test system
Panasonic Mobile Communications has developed a radio-wave propagation simulation system for next-generation wireless communication systems, including 3G. The system lets the user conduct an analysis of radio-wave propagation within a given environment for several wireless transmission methods, such as multi-input, multi-output and multi-hopping propagation, according to Panasonic.
http://panasonic.co.jp/pmc
Klein launches earpiece for Vertex radios
Klein Electronics introduced its Sentry two-wire surveillance earpiece specifically designed for Vertex Standard’s 820 and 920 public-safety radios. The earpiece kit includes an acoustic coil tube in black or clear and an internal dual push-to-talk button and microphone, among other features.
www.headsetusa.com
Wireless weigh pad
Massload Technologies now offers a wireless version of its Ultraslim Weighpads, used for weighing commercial truckers’ loads. The 0.7-inch-thick portable pad has 20 independent micro-load cells in each pad, can support up to eight channels and has a battery life of up to 200 operating hours. It can be attached to a display system using a Palm hand-held with Massload wireless desktop software or to obtain readings, according to the company.
www.massload.com
Amplifiers promise minimal noise
Radio Frequency Systems unveiled a new series of tower-mount amplifiers for broadband wireless data applications in the advanced wireless services band. The amplifiers promise low-loss because of noise figures and are fully compliant with the Antenna Interface Standards Group (AISG) antenna control interface standard.
www.rfsworld.com
Building automation control system
Kiyon released the KAN354B BACnet WiFi Mesh, which supports the protocol for building automation and control systems. The device is part of the company’s line of wireless building automation routers for indoor-commercial and industrial-building systems. It offers up to 54 Mb/s of bandwidth and supports TCP/IP and HTTP protocols, according to the company.
www.kiyon.com
GPS solutions
RF Micro Devices released samples of its RF8110 GPS solution, which combines a radio-frequency integrated circuit and software to deliver GPS technology to next-generation devices. The solution delivers positioning data while reducing the number of components, system size and total bill-of-materials cost, according to the company.
www.rfmd.com
Portable satellite data system
Cypress Semiconductor launched the single-chip ProC LP, the company’s next-generation programmable radio-system-on-a-chip. According to Cypress, the chip integrates the company’s WirelessUSB LP 2.4 GHz transceiver with its enCoRe II 8-bit Flash microcontroller in order to reduce board space requirements for small form-factor wireless human interface devices, such as RF remote controls.
www.cypress.com
Fingerprint-based WLAN system
Biometric reader and software developer silex technology america partnered with Bountiful WiFi to develop a fingerprint-based access control system for WLANs. The companies bundled silex’s SX-650 NetGuard Wi-Fi network access control device and S1 biometric fingerprint reader with Bountiful’s router, which supports 802.11b/g.
www.silexamerica.com
www.bountifulwifi.com
