Ultranarrowband radio goes a long way: News from Plextek

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Plextek has designed a telemetry system that allows data to be transmitted over long distances at low power. Using an ultranarrowband radio technique, the system is ideal for use in a 'one to many' remote monitoring, control or metering network spanning an area of several square miles and incorporating many smaller and cheaper outstations. It offers a proven design that reduces the time to market and design costs of the overall network.

The ability to transmit data over long distances at low power is significant as radio regulations limit the maximum power for a transmission.

Compared with other methods, this radio technique requires less power to transmit data over a set distance and therefore enables a battery-powered application to last longer.

As a result, the telemetry system is particularly suitable for networks in which small amounts of data are transmitted, such as domestic gas and electricity metering, remote vending machines and remote sensors in industrial plants.

The telemetry system is on show this week on the Plextek stand (671) at CTIA Wireless 2005 in New Orleans.

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News Release from: Plextek Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 15 March 2005

Ultranarrowband radio goes a long way

Plextek has designed a telemetry system that allows data to be transmitted over long distances at low power.

Note: Readers of the Editor’s free email newsletter will have read this news when it was announced. . It’s free!

News Release from: Plextek
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 15 March 2005