16th Mar 09
Wireless protocol RuBee to address
unique market requirements
RuBee, an on-demand peer-to-peer network protocol is set
to create unique market in identification and M2M communications.
It's recently got approval seal of IEEE. Its coded as IEEE1902.1
and termed as "Standard for Long Wavelength Wireless
Network Protocol".
RuBee can send data packets in both directions by operating
at low frequency below 450 KHz and the distance covered
is 10 to 50 ft.
The super specialty of this standard is it works in harsh
environment to ensure reliability, even in the presence
of water and steel. So it's highly suggested for medical
and aerospace applications. For RuBee, the presence of steel
improves the range. No line of sight issues.
The application markets in need of this technology are,
high security government facilities, assets visibility and
mission critical tool management in aerospace industries,
firearm management and visibility in government armories,
livestock management and mobile asset management.
Long battery life is also inherent strength of this protocol;
single lithium battery can last for years. The semiconductor
device, other associated components and the battery takes
very minimal space, all together will get in to a shape
of tag.
The actively working companies behind this technology are
Seiko Epson and Visible Assets. With its capabilities in
producing wireless transceivers for Zigbee, Bluetooth and
RFID, Seiko Epson can be soon expected to launch RuBee wireless
semiconductor ICs (transceivers) for world markets.
This technology looks very close to RFID, but in reality
there are quite a lot of differences otherwise advantages
over RFID.
Read the article at www.rubee.com/White-SEC/RuBee-SellingPoints-190208v1-3.pdf
to learn the differences.
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