Date: 26/11/2009

Reference design to track real-time logistics data wirelessly

Jennic has announced the release of its Logistics reference design that provides a platform for use in monitoring and tracking of Goods in transportation. Based upon Jennic's patented sleeping beacon technology, the platform allows battery powered, time-synchronised sleeping wireless sensor networks to be evaluated for Logistics applications.

Sensors in the network periodically communicate environment data such as temperature to a central controller, which communicates with a back-office system to provide real-time transportation data to logistics personnel and for auditing purposes.

The Windows based GUI displays real-time data relating to the sensor network including
node temperature, battery voltage and RF channel. It also allows the frequency agility features of the solution to be evaluated, through the effects of RF interference and channel blacklisting.

Colin Faulkner, Jennic Product Marketing, commented, "Our sleeping beacon technology offers the perfect solution for mobile, battery powered sensor networks, addressing logistics requirements such as cargo and vehicle security, and environment monitoring. The Logistics Reference Design provides OEMs with a fast, effective platform for developing bespoke solutions, providing all the enabling technology on which to build their system."

Jennic's IEEE802.15.4 standards based wireless microcontroller technology operating in the unlicensed 2.4GHz ISM band, providing a solution for a global market. To enable rapid time to market, Jennic offers a range of pre-certified surface mounted wireless modules that have full compliance with all RF regulatory requirements meaning low certification costs.

For more details visit www.jennic.com