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Product Name: Wireless Applications

Product Description

Commercial Building Automation

Intelligent control of commercial buildings can result in huge savings in energy consumption, but the installation costs of wired sensors and controls have been prohibitive. There are a host of sensor and control functions that can benefit from being wirelessly networked, including:

• measuring temperature and humidity
• controlling heating, ventilation, air-conditioning units, shades blinds and lighting
• detecting smoke, fire door positions, and occupancy
• controlling access and providing security etc

Now wireless systems are practical because the integration of the whole radio (RF, micro-controller, and memory) onto a single chip brings a low power, small-size, and very low cost. Battery powered sensors can be easily installed and moved, saving thousands of dollars on wiring installation costs. The system can be easily scaled with additional sensors, and the system provides for numerous transmission paths to ensure crucial data is received.

Industrial Process Monitoring and Control

Comprehensive monitoring and control of industrial processes and equipment is crucial to achieving efficient production, minimizing cost, and ensuring safety of staff and public. However, providing enough wired sensors – perhaps thousands - to monitor and control an average industrial process is a costly, and complex business. Applications range from meter reading, through pipeline flow measurement, to machine control. Sensors might simply be for temperature, or for specialist gas detection.

Wiring is expensive, and even more expensive to change. Wireless systems can offer a good solution if the sensors and controllers are low cost, easy to install, and can provide a robust transmission method to guarantee the signal gets through. Apart from being cheaper and more flexible, wireless sensors can also be used in hazardous environments inaccessible to normal wired systems.

Home Automation

Networking many residential facilities wirelessly has been dream for many years. Controlling temperature and lighting in each room, occupancy and smoke detectors as security features, and even monitoring the status of domestic appliances such as washing machines, provides real benefits to many homeowners. New houses also need to be constructed to ever-higher levels of energy efficiency, but the complexity and cost of traditional wired heating, lighting and ventilation systems has excluded them from all but the most expensive homes.

In new residential buildings such systems can now be implemented easily and with very little cost by low power, wireless sensors. Upgrading a system based on the new industry standards (802.15.4 and ZigBee) is easily done simply by adding extra sensors. A single system supports fire detection, security and access, and lighting and environment control.

Company Details

Jennic is a fabless semiconductor company leading the wireless connectivity revolution by providing wireless microcontrollers for a broad range of applications. Jennic are enabling the emerging market for wireless sensor networks. The company's... more