Toumaz launches 'TELRAN' TZ1053 - ultra-low energy radio for wireless sensor networks, environmental monitoring and smart metering

The TZ1053 TELRAN uses AMx state-of-the-art ultra-low energy technology to deliver much longer life from low voltage battery-based systems for customers developing ultra-low energy applications - without compromising on performance. Designed with ease of use in mind, the TELRAN contains an enhanced 8051 running Toumaz's Nanopower Sensor Protocol (NSP) allowing developers to program and control the TELRAN device easily with high level commands either over a standard interface, e.g. UART, or over the air.



TELRAN TZ1053 devices will be available worldwide as engineering samples from the end of February 2011, with production devices in full availability from June 2011. A TELRAN developer kit will also be available at the end of February from CompoTRON GmbH. The TELRAN Development Kit (TDK) includes a USB TELRAN basestation, TELRAN RF module and an accelerometer sensor board with demo and PC application. The TELRAN RF module (TZ1053RFM) is also available to customers for fast prototyping and production.



Features

Bidirectional secure wireless transceiver

Single battery cell supply 1.08-1.5V

Transceiver current Tx 3mA, Rx 2.8mA

Configurable duty cycle (average power guarantee)

High level NSP protocol giving a robust and easy to use radio network

Raw data rate 50kbps

Range: 10m (Pout -10dBm)

20m (Pout -4dBm)

AES128 encryption in hardware

OTA (Over the Air) programming

Supports sensor networks

Simple digital sensor interface

5x GPIO, 3V tolerant digital I/Os

I2C compatible/SPI/GPIO/UART

Peer to peer and star network supported

Temperature range -40 to +85

32 pin VQFN package 5x5x09.mm