AIRcable™ OS-based Products

Our new AIRcable OS-based products are now programmable and customizable while retaining all of the easy-to-use features you have come to enjoy from other AIRcable products. And, of course, you can always combine two AIRcable modules for cable replacement applications.

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AIRcable OS Overview

AIRcable OS is our new product line of programmable wireless micro-controllers (W-PLC). These new devices are a fusion of the following in one single device:

• BASIC interpreter
• Data logger
• Bluetooth radio

We have a full spectrum of devices in this product line, from the smallest, ultra low power AIRcable SMD module to the longest range Bluetooth product in the industry, 28 miles with the AIRcable Industrial XR. Our products are based on the newest Bluetooth® 2.0 standard, free of interference and are 802.11b tolerant by avoiding collisions automatically. This results in reliable connections and high communication data rates (up to 3MBit/s).

AIRcable Operating System

All our AIRcable OS products are based on the AIRcable operating system. It allows running customer applications in BASIC. They are easily programmable through a wireless file transfer (FTP) of a simple text file containing the BASIC code. Our AIRcable OS products are the only embedded Bluetooth products that allow multiple and simultaneous wireless connections. In fact, two serial wireless connections (SPP) can be supported at the same time plus file transfer and message transfer.

Autonomous Operation

A very powerful input and output system implemented within the AIRcable OS allows reading and writing on 3 high speed serial ports: SPP master port, SPP slave port and the UART. We can achieve a sustained streaming data rate of 160kBit/s and baud rate of 2.6MBit/s. Applications run independent of wireless connections and can communicate with sensors and attached devices or user interfaces. The AIRcable Industrial has an additional read/writeable file system for data logging and retrieval using standard wireless FTP over OBEX. The interoperability allows even cell phones and PDAs to access the file system wirelessly.

Wireless Sensors

The AIRcable OS products come with a number of intelligent sensor interfaces: real time clock, temperature sensor, high-precision analog to digital sensor, LCD and more. This makes the AIRcable SMD the perfect solution for "smart dust", motes and other wireless sensor products. It is mesh network capable, bootstrap configurable and able to support master and slave operations simultaneously.

The AIRcable OS products are superior to Zigbee solutions in the wireless sensor market:

• much lower development and deployment costs
• very low hardware cost
• ultra low power of under 50uA with active AIRcable operating system
• extremely long range of up to 28 miles
• interoperability with any PC, laptop, cell phone, PDA, GPS etc.

Summary Benefits

• Wireless micro-controller with powerful wireless functions and high security
• Very easy software development and deployment
• Single processor solution (one chip plus memory), very low hardware costs
• Multiple sensor interfaces, ideal solution for “smart dust” or “motes”
• Compatible with all Bluetooth devices (SPP, FTP, OBEX)
• Full customization available (with or without file system, max BASIC code size, built-in functions etc.)