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GainSpan™ brings Wi-Fi sensor networks to life. The company’s semiconductor and software solutions break new ground in Wi-Fi applications by enabling years of battery life for Wi-Fi sensors and other devices.
The solution was innovative... new Wi-Fi semiconductor and software solutions that enable sensors and other devices to run up to 10 years on a single AA battery. This allows users to leverage the global Wi-Fi standard, existing tools and knowledge investments, for new applications such as temperature monitoring for energy management, condition monitoring of industrial equipment in manufacturing plants or streetlights in metro areas.
GainSpan’s mission is to continue to innovate around these basic tenets to create a broad range of solutions that can improve usage capabilities worldwide and enable people to save money, save energy and work smarter.
Wi-Fi Sensors with Years of Battery Life
GainSpan brings Wi-Fi sensors and other devices to life with the GainSpan GS1010 SoC, a highly integrated system on chip that provides years of life and intelligent power management for battery operated devices. GS1010 was designed to flexibly support a wide range of products and applications, with on board:
- IEEE® 802.11b/g radio
- ARM7® 32-bit microcontroller
- Flash and SRAM memories
- Multiple I/Os
Software and tools
Depending on the application, OEM products that incorporate the GainSpan GS1010 SoC can achieve battery life as long as 10 years on a single AA battery. Further, GS1010 development kits can save as much as 12-18 man months in engineering resources by providing tools that enable faster product development, such as easy setup for various sensor interfaces with our APIs.
Easy-to-use Wi-Fi Sensor Networks
Managing a battery-powered sensor in a Wi-Fi sensor network presents unique needs for today’s Wi-Fi networks. Wireless sensor nodes spend most of their time with their radios off to conserve battery life, but today’s enterprise networks expect an “always available” interface from the wireless sensor networks and its individual sensor nodes.
To address this need, GainSpan developed GainSpan Management System (GMS), software that logically sits in the network as an “always on” interface using standard network protocols for management systems, including enterprise network management systems (NMS), as well as existing SCADA industrial and building automation systems.
GMS intelligently aggregates management and control requests and responses from the enterprise management systems and communicates with the sensor nodes to actively listen for configuration messages or firmware updates whenever they come on. This allows Wi-Fi based sensors to be seamlessly deployed in current enterprise networks, without degrading battery life.
To learn more about how GainSpan Management System makes easy-to-use sense for Wi-Fi sensor networks, contact Ismosys.com today.
Are you ready for products with years of life in a Wi-Fi world? Contact Ismosys.com today to learn more.
