Wavecom Launches Open Specification Technology to Facilitate IP Connectivity for M2M Devices
12 Noviembre 2008 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
Regulatory News: Wavecom (Paris:AVM) (NASDAQ:WVCM) today announced
the introduction of a new technology, RIPlink� (Remote IP link),
which allows applications running on non-IP devices to be connected
over IP (Internet Protocol), drastically simplifying M2M
(machine-to-machine) application design and deployment. IP
architecture is the undisputed reference for communicating
applications. The telecoms industry has invested significant
resources to design and deploy a wide range of IP based solutions,
both for industrial and consumer applications, and there are few
systems designed today that do not consider inter-connecting to IP.
For M2M industry players, IP represents the best way to secure
investments in telecoms product design, ensuring a smooth
transition path as communication technologies evolve. Despite IP
benefits, however, today�s M2M application deployments are still
largely based on non-IP capable network technologies and devices,
due to strict requirements on power consumption, coverage, device
resources, or deployment costs. To overcome these barriers, Wavecom
launches an innovative technology that extends IP networks� reach.
Thanks to a RIPlink� gateway that is connected on one side to the
IP network, and on the other side to one or more non-IP networks,
standard TCP or UDP applications can run on non-IP devices and have
access to the IP network resources. No IP stack is required on the
device, and the underlying non-IP network remains unchanged. The
client or server IP application running on the device is seen from
the IP network as a standard IP application of the RIPlink�
gateway. The gateway can manage several devices simultaneously, on
one or more different non-IP networks. Thanks to RIPlink�, M2M
application development becomes simpler and more easily portable.
Applications can operate on heterogeneous devices on IPv4 - or IPv6
- and non-IP networks, using standard IP addressing, TCP and UDP
principles. RIPlink� is fast, inexpensive and safe to deploy: there
is no hardware impact, no network stack impact � thus no
re-certification � and the extra application software fits into the
smallest device processors. RIPlink� requires less than 10kB of
code, just a few hundred words of RAM, no significant processing
capacity, no real-time capacity, and no operating system on the
device. To ensure that the M2M community benefits to the fullest
from the RIPlink� technology, Wavecom is making RIPlink� available
as an open technology, with public specifications and solutions
available from Wavecom as well as from other RIPlink� adopters. The
RIPlink� technology has already been successfully ported and
demonstrated on several non-IP networks, including ZigBee and PLC
(Power Line Communication). For instance, the Italian company AP
Systems (www.apsystems.it), which specializes in wireless solutions
for smart metering, has designed a RIPlink� enabled concentrator,
called M3-C (Multi Metering Management Concentrator). The
concentrator uses RIPlink to collect consumption data
from�electricity meters over PLC and from gas meters over ZigBee.
It performs pre-billing calculations and sends the data to the
back-end system over the GPRS network. These functions are easily
implemented thanks to the powerful Wavecom Wireless CPU�.�The M3-C
concentrator is also used for other applications such as street
lighting control via PLC connections. �We are very enthusiastic
about the potential of RIPlink� for the M2M industry,� said Davide
Bassetto, Product Manager of AP Systems. �With such combined
performance, simplicity and flexibility, IP applications can be
deployed quickly and smoothly. Thanks to RIPlink�, the M3-C is
ready to embed new communication technologies and move with the
market, both with wireless and wired solutions.� Ember Corporation,
a ZigBee technology leader, is supplying the underlying ZigBee
silicon and software used by Wavecom and APSystems for these
RIPlink implementations. �RIPlink� is very complementary to our
implementations of the ZigBee Alliance standards,� said Bob Gohn,
VP Marketing of Ember. �This technology provides a simple and
useful way of extending IP services to devices on standard,
scalable and secure ZigBee networks.� Laurent Girault, Technical
Marketing Director at Wavecom, concluded: �RIPlink� is a powerful
way to simplify M2M application development and deployment, while
keeping the choice of the best connectivity open for each specific
application. RIPlink� not only provides the right technical
solution: As a freely available technology it is future-proof and
open, as IP is. This technology removes a barrier to growth in the
M2M market, and companies adopting RIPlink� will be able to improve
their business efficiency and capture new opportunities.� To find
out more, visit http://www.riplink.org. A blue paper on the
RIPlink� technology is available from
http://www.wavecom.com/bluepapers. Wavecom will be presenting this
technology today at the Wireless Congress in Munich, Germany. For
more information:
http://www.elektroniknet.de/home/termine/wireless-congress Wavecom
� the wireless M2M experts Wavecom is a leading provider of
embedded wireless technology for M2M (machine-to-machine)
communication. We provide a range of GSM/GPRS, CDMA, EDGE and 3G
Wireless CPUs; programmable processors which also act as wireless
modules or wireless modems. These are backed by a C and Lua-based
cellular wireless software suite which includes a real-time
operating system (RTOS), a software development environment based
on Eclipse�, and several Plug-Ins (GPS, TCP/IP, security,
Bluetooth�, Lua script and more). We also offer a wide range of
professional and operated services. Our solutions are used for
automotive telematics, smart metering, fleet management,
GSM/GPS/satellite tracking, wireless alarms, wireless POS (point of
sales), WLL (fixed voice), remote monitoring and many other M2M
applications. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in
Issy-les-Moulineaux (France) near Paris, Wavecom has subsidiaries
in Hong Kong (PRC), Research Triangle Park, NC (USA), Farnborough
(UK), Munich (Germany) and Sao Paolo (Brazil). Wavecom is publicly
traded on Euronext Paris (Eurolist) in France and on the NASDAQ
(WVCM) exchange in the U.S. www.wavecom.com
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