Wireless

LPRS, Europe’s leading supplier of short-range radio devices, has provided ITV Technical Services with easy-Radio wireless modules to monitor the movements of cats for a USA based programme maker.

EAD has introduced the Pentablade antenna, a five band stubby blade antenna ideal for fixed Machine to Machine (M2M) applications. Supporting US 850/1900 MHz, and European 900/1800 MHz frequencies as well has 2100 MHz (3G), the PentaBlade offers a single solution for celluar networks. It offers 2 dBi of gain and is supplied with a standard SMA-Male right angle connector.

As wireless network systems designers look to alternative energy sources, Texas Instruments has announced a solar energy harvesting (SEH) development kit that converts ambient light into power for industrial, transportation, agricultural and commercial applications. The credit card-sized eZ430-RF2500-SEH kit combines Cymbet Corporation’s EnerChip thin-film battery technology with TI’s MSP430 microcontrollers (MCU), CC2500 radio frequency (RF)...

At Embedded World 2009 in Nuremburg, Silicon Laboratories will showcase its power-efficient embedded wireless design based on its EZRadioPRO technology. Silicon Labs will demonstrate innovative design techniques through live product and hands-on demonstrations for a range of consumer and industrial monitoring and control requiring power efficiency with special emphasis on extending battery life and improving performance.

NEC Electronics has announced that it has commercialized EMMA Mobile 1, an optimal system LSI chip for the market of portable devices to process audio and visual data, such as portable multi-media players and mobile TVs. Samples of the new EMMA Mobile 1 are available now.

Engineers can now bridge the gap between two disparate voltage nodes while maintaining digital switching compatibility by using a tiny, highly integrated Secure Digital (SD)/MultiMedia Card (MMC) level shifter, introduced today by Texas Instruments. The translator’s auto-direction circuitry simplifies board design by eliminating the need for customers to program a General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) on a processor for direction control and ...

LPRS is providing Foundation-Robotics, the UK based creator of animatronics devices, with easy-Radio wireless modules for their Cycler, state of the art presentation robot. Specially designed and built for the environment and education charity Waste Watch, Cycler is used to bring their waste prevention message of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle to schools around the UK.

A new low-power stereo audio codec from Texas Instruments enables CD quality playback and extends battery life in portable products such as cell phones, portable navigation devices and portable media players.

Ideal for applications requiring maximum range performance in a wireless solution, the new XBee-PRO 868 embedded RF modules from Solid State Supplies are designed for the European 868MHz frequency band. Using an easy to configure point-to-multipoint networking protocol with RF ‘line of sight’ range beyond 40 kilometers, the XBee-PRO 868 is capable of 500 mW of EIRP and a -112 dBm receive sensitivity. In fact, Digi claim the XBee-PRO 868 is th...

UR Group has introduced a four-band GSM/GPRS module with a sub-2mA sleep mode, 300mA in-call current, low weight and compact footprint to extend the operating envelope of embedded M2M and telematics applications. The module supports supplementary services, with SMS via GSM or GPRS, cell broadcast, and speech modes including support for basic hands-free.