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Cyan partners with industry leaders to bring low-cost Ethernet to ISM RF Gateway with embedded web server and USB
Cambridge, UK - 22 January 2008 Cyan today announced that it has collaborated with Ember, Micrel and Radiocrafts to bring a family of Gateway solutions for distributed radio networks. Cyan's new gateways significantly reduce typical development times of any system's data concentration function thereby accelerating wireless metering, home automation and environmental monitoring projects.
Cyan has combined its new USB/Ethernet Gateway module with proven industry-leading radio technologies from its partners to develop a portfolio of interoperable, production-ready Gateways and nodes with support for a range of wireless protocols including ZigBee, Wireless M-Bus, GPRS and Cy-Net. The gateways provide a low cost solution for the mass deployment of open and closed distributed radio systems.
Each gateway is built on Cyan's USB/Ethernet module which is designed with a radio agnostic motherboard to provide a highly flexible production-ready platform for a range of radio technology interfaces. Cyan's modules combine a powerful eCOG1X 16-bit microcontroller (MCU) with a USB interface and an Ethernet port and can be deployed quickly and easily as an embedded web-server interface to control lines and sensors, or simply act as an Ethernet connection or link to USB hosted peripherals.
Kenn Lamb, CEO of Cyan said, "By partnering with Ember, Micrel and Radiocrafts, Cyan can now offer customers a range of low cost, highly versatile end-to-end solutions for distributed radio systems."
Applications which require the radio to be interoperable with established standards can choose either Cyan's Wireless M-bus Gateway which incorporates Radiocrafts RC11x0 Wireless M-Bus module, supporting R, S and T transmission modes for the 868 MHz frequency band, or Cyan's ZigBee gateway combining the Ember 260 which operates in the 2.4GHz frequency band.
The Cy-Net gateway uses Cyan's proprietary radio networking technology and is currently available on 433 MHz, 470 MHz, 868 MHz and 915 MHz frequency bands using Micrel RF Devices. Cy-Net is ideal for use in closed systems where all equipment within a radio network is supplied by one vendor. It is a low power advanced mesh networking protocol with self forming and healing capabilities, allowing networks to be deployed without needing to configure the network topology. This range of options provides customers with flexibility in choice of radio technology.
Furthermore, Cyan's GPRS gateway includes GPRS to RF capability. This provides a low-cost hardware platform for bridging between RF and GPRS networks, and also includes firmware support for web hosting over a GPRS network.
All Gateway products are fully supported by Cyan's leading CyanIDE 2.0 (Integrated Development Environment) software. CyanIDE 2.0 comprises a powerful set of development tools, including an editor, full GCC compiler, simulator, GDB debugger, memory configurator and in-system programmer. A configuration tool is also included which allows peripherals and other external components to be easily configured using a simple drag and drop GUI. CyanIDE supports the rapid development of bespoke firmware for all of Cyan's products, and enables customers to quickly and easily set up the gateways and nodes to individual specific requirements to ensure the fastest possible deployment of a radio network.
Cyan's gateways and nodes all come with extensive firmware support for USB, TCP/IP, Ethernet, GPRS, FreeRTOS real time operating system and drivers for a range of radio technologies.
About Cyan
Based in Cambridge in the UK, Cyan Holdings plc is a fabless semiconductor company developing configurable low power microcontrollers (MCUs). Under the CySolved™ brand Cyan incorporates these MCUs into production ready modules designed to be cost competitive in high volumes to enable rapid deployment by our customers.
Cyan's ready-to-go modules provide RF connectivity and USB and Ethernet enabled Gateways, complete with software protocol stacks and modular application software based on easy to use programmer interfaces.
All Cyan's products are user customisable at system level via a highly graphical Integrated Development Environment 'CyanIDE™' supplied without charge. CyanIDE also incorporates optimised software such as RF Mesh Networking Protocols and embedded Web Servers, and supports a library of external peripherals.
The Company was founded in 2002 and listed on AIM in 2005 Cyan Holdings plc operates through the brand 'Cyan'