ZigBee Platform Integrates Sensor Monitoring and Location Tracking

CARLSBAD, Calif. /BUSINESS WIRE/ -- Helicomm, a leading wireless networking solutions provider, announced that it will demonstrate the integrated platform for wireless sensor-monitoring and location-tracking applications at Sensors Expo in Rosemont, Ill., June 5-7 in Booth #517.

This solution targets applications in several markets, including public safety, logistics, asset management, and healthcare. Customers in these markets need a reliable, scalable, and ease-of-deployment wireless infrastructure to monitor sensory data and track asset location.

Helicomm's new platform consists of wireless mesh access points, low-power mobile tags, and an application management–tool interface that enables customers to quickly integrate and deploy wireless sensory networks. This innovative system seamlessly integrates various types of sensors, such as temperature, pressure, smoke, and gas. With its mesh networking capability, the system performs reliably even under complex and challenged environments.

"We are pleased to participate in Sensors Expo and show our wireless sensor monitoring and location tracking systems," said Helicomm president, Jack Sun. "The integration of a mesh sensory network with the wireless location tracking solution will provide niche value for markets in public safety, logistics, asset management, and healthcare," he added.

Helicomm's location access point uses mesh technology and requires no wiring during installation. Thirty access points can cover a maximum 4 million square-foot area. The management-tool API seamlessly integrates third-party graphic and database tools. The system is currently under customer trials in the target markets of public safety, logistics, asset management, and healthcare. An overview of Helicomm's tracking system can be found at the company's Web site.

About Helicomm
Based in Carlsbad, Calif., with wholly owned subsidiaries in Beijing, China, and Taipei, Taiwan, Helicomm provides wireless networking solutions built on the new ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4 and IPv6 global standards for reliable, secure, low-power, cost-effective wireless networks. Helicomm's wireless modules, network gateways, networking software, and development tools provide customers with the quickest and easiest way to integrate wireless networking into their products and systems. For more information about Helicomm, please visit the company's Web site.

ZigBee: Wireless Control That Simply Works
The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. The ZigBee Alliance is a rapidly growing, nonprofit industry consortium of leading semiconductor manufacturers, technology providers, OEMs, and end-users worldwide. Membership is open to all. Additional information can be found at the ZigBee Alliance Web site.