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News Release from: PMVision | Subject: ZigBee ready wireless monitoring
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 27 January 2006
Wireless sensor network is ready for
ZigBee
A new range ZigBee ready wireless monitoring devices and a ZigBee ready local hub are designed for deployment in the automotive and petrochemical sectors.
PMVision has launched a new range ZigBee ready wireless monitoring devices and a ZigBee ready local hub for the automotive and petrochemical sectors Based around the new powerful Jennic JN5121 microcontroller the hub can be connected to existing telematics unit, control/comms via serial or added to PMVision's existing Batrak battery powered tracking product
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 8 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The sensor tag is extremely low power and runs entirely on batteries; it can last for up to 3 years on four standard AA types.
The tag is also very small in size - no bigger than a GBP 2 coin.
The sensor has a range of 100m in free air and 40m in an enclosed space.
The standard unit measures temperature to an accuracy of +/-0.2C, each tag and hub has four multifunction digital/analogue lines plus access to an SPIbus and is expandable so that sensors measuring for example CO2, CO, alcohol or humidity can be used.
In fact the tag can monitor wirelessly any substance for which a sensor exists.
Many peripherals can be used with a single hub via mesh, star or point-to-point networks within environments such as trailers, office buildings, ships and industrial complexes.
Applications include remote monitoring (and control) of temperature, fluid levels, noxious gases, alcohol and (with the CO2 sensor) detection of stowaways.
Assets and stock can also be monitored, for example in container bases and carports.
The new ZigBee sensors complement the suite of existing PMVision white label peripheral telematics products such as in-vehicle display messaging, mapping, trailer/asset tracking and security devices.
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