Numerex Builds UK Presence Via Arkessa to Tap European M2M Market Growth

Arkessa provides European systems integrators and corporate users with cellular-based wireless internet connectivity and data services, enabling the connection, control and management of remote systems and equipment for a multitude of users across borders and applications. The critical factors leading to Numerex’s selection of Arkessa as a partner in Europe were its market presence and focus on pervasive, secure, and reliable connectivity, which allows its users to extract information from the harvested data in real-time.

“Arkessa provides Numerex with a proven, solid, European presence that delivers a package of additional data service capabilities coupled with market reach and insight. Our customers will also benefit from access to highly reliable and rapidly available M2M turnkey solutions developed through, by and with Numerex,” stated Ian Orrock, Executive Chairman of Arkessa.

“Through partnerships with wireless carriers and infrastructure providers, we have built a seamless and ubiquitous M2M development platform, which has contributed to establishing a robust international service offering,” said Louis Fienberg, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of Numerex.

As an integral part of this strategic relationship, Numerex has acquired a minority stake in Arkessa. Funds will be used to support Arkessa’s expanding business development initiatives.

The Numerex European expansion will focus on presenting Numerex’s products and services combined with Arkessa’s, to the European market, and developing relationships with European companies interested in extending their M2M activities using the Numerex platform in the North American market and beyond.

About Arkessa
Arkessa uses wireless cellular communication systems to connect things to other things, systems and people, enabling them to operate, be managed and controlled as though they were connected directly via the internet. Within Europe, Arkessa is a pioneer of machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions for systems integrators and government organizations that support critical infrastructure, environmental services and mission-critical facilities. It also provides vital tools to those building an internet of things. Arkessa’s wireless network services enable organizations to innovate, get closer to their customers, reduce costs, improve performance and enhance profitability. Supported by its partnership with global telecoms giant KDDI Telehouse, Arkessa’s services are meeting the growing demand for wireless networking in many markets. It is a founder member of Cambridge Wireless and of the m2mglobal network. For additional information, please visit http://www.arkessa.com.

About Numerex
Numerex Corp (NASDAQ: NMRX) is a leading provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) business services, technology, and products used in the development and support of M2M solutions for the enterprise and government markets worldwide. The Company offers Numerex DNA(R) that includes hardware and smart Devices, cellular and satellite Network services, and software Applications that are delivered through Numerex FAST(R) (Foundation Application Software Technology). Customers typically subscribe to device management, network, and application services through hosted platforms. Business services enable the development of efficient, reliable, and secure solutions while simplifying and speeding up deployment through streamlined processes and comprehensive integration services. Numerex is ISO 27001 information security-certified. "Machines Trust Us(R)" represents the Company's focus on M2M data security, service reliability, and round-the-clock support of its customers' M2M solutions. For additional information, please visit www.numerex.com.

For more information contact:
Ian Orrock
Executive Chairman
Arkessa Limited
ian.orrock@arkessa.com
+44 7710 982506

RACO Wireless Hires John Horn as President

“John Horn is an outspoken evangelist and visionary for the M2M industry and brings a decade of experience to RACO Wireless,” said Rob Adams, CEO of RACO Wireless. “With his experience and our expertise and technology platform, we will continue to expand on T-Mobile’s goal of being the easiest to do business with in the M2M space.”

Through the Omega Management Suite™ (OMS), RACO Wireless delivers unprecedented visibility into its network in addition to essential tools designed to simplify SIM management. OMS is a robust information tool which provides advanced reporting and alerting features including: real time SIM monitoring & reports, overage reports & alerts, SIM activation & maintenance, SIM management, web based billing, and APN system hardware status monitors. RACO Wireless provides a variety of connectivity options and customizable data rate plans that can meet the needs of any unique M2M application.

About RACO Wireless
RACO Wireless, a subsidiary of RACO Industries in Cincinnati, OH and a T-Mobile partner for ten years, is a leading provider of wireless data solutions to the machine-to-machine industry specializing in delivering wireless data your way, with a data solution portfolio based on innovation, flexibility, and reliability.

Source: Business Wire

Photo: Courtesy of M2M World Congress

Telenor Connexion Expands Executive Team to Match Emerging M2M Service Growth in the Americas

The expansion further strengthens the company's position in the M2M, telematics and wireless markets, as well as supports strong growth in vertical markets such as healthcare, automotive and insurance and asset management. Through the company’s unique proactive service awareness solution, customers in these markets will have full control of status, location and performance of connected devices, while enjoying highest level of customer service awareness and response.

“Telenor Connexion has a proven record in delivering reliable, future-proof and dynamic M2M solutions that deliver cost savings, flexibility, efficiency and improved services,” said Fredrik Åkerlind, Head of Regions Americas. “With LeBron’s expertise in the region, Telenor Connexion will further explore new opportunities and provide new and existing customers with world-class premium embedded connectivity solutions for business and life critical applications.”

LeBron brings more than 20 years of international wireless experience to Telenor Connexion. Prior to joining the company, LeBron served as Vice President of sales for the embedded wireless technology division and the wireless network services division at a leading M2M MVNO. He also held key positions at one of the industry’s top global wireless module OEMs, Wavecom Inc., including General Manager for Latin America. His experience and contributions in the wireless sector date back to 1991, and span from mass wireless consumer applications to automotive telematics, mobile health, and other industry verticals.

Rodrigues is seasoned professional with more than 11 years of experience in the telecommunications and IT business. He recently served as Senior Sales Engineer and Senior Solutions Architect at MFormation Technologies, Inc. His previous employers include Worldcell where he worked as Business Development Manager and Network Operations Engineer, Delphi Automotive and LogicaCMG.

Both LeBron and Rodrigues will report to Fredrik Åkerlind, Head of Sales Region Americas, located in California.

For more information, please contact:

US:
VisiTech PR for Telenor Connexion
Julia Fedorova, tc@visitechpr.com, +1 (303) 752-3552 x223

Europe:
Kristina Grandin, PR and Communications, Telenor Connexion
kristina.grandin@telenor.com , +46 734 25 26 21

About Telenor Connexion
Telenor Connexion is a leading provider of premium M2M solutions for business and life critical applications, regardless of the vertical market. Building on more than 10 years of M2M experience, Telenor Connexion provides customers with tools that allow for full control of status, location and performance of their connected devices. Telenor Connexion has provided reliable, international M2M solutions to a number of global customers such as Volvo, Nissan, Daimler, TomTom, Omron, Scania, Qualcomm Enterprise Services, Hitachi and Securitas. The company was established in 2008 and originates from the successful M2M business within Telenor Sweden. Telenor Connexion is wholly owned by Telenor Group, one of the world’s major mobile operators.
For more information please visit www.telenorconnexion.com

Source: Telenor Connexion

EDMI Selects Sierra Wireless AirPrime™ for Smart Residential Automatic Meter Management

EDMI is using the AirPrime SL6087 module, winner of the GSM Association's award for Best 2G Module in 2010, with a ruggedized Embedded SIM. The combined solution allows a compact design with complete integration of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) functionality. It also offers an optional Zigbee RF interface to connect a remote display panel. EDMI smart meters with embedded wireless connectivity comply fully with internationally recognized standards, providing a reliable, flexible, and cost-effective solution to allow users to optimize their energy consumption.

In February 2011, Sierra Wireless and EDMI together won the GSMA Global Mobile Award for Best Mobile Innovation for Utilities at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The award recognized EDMI's EWM100 modem for smart metering applications, which uses Sierra Wireless AirPrime™ embedded modules to provide robust cellular communications.

"EDMI promises to deliver utilities and consumers better control over electricity generation, distribution, and energy conservation. We need a strong partner in smart metering communications to achieve these goals," said Graeme Lees, COO, EDMI. "Sierra Wireless has proven reliability with a track record of delivering industrial-grade communication solutions, and we are happy to recognize Sierra Wireless as a long term collaborator in our smart metering project."

"EDMI continues to offer innovative solutions for smart metering, playing an important role in helping customers around the world to use energy more efficiently," said Jin Pak, Vice President, Asia Pacific Sales for Sierra Wireless. "We believe that reliable, robust wireless solutions for smart meters can help meet this goal by providing more efficient management and longevity in the field, and we are very pleased that EDMI has once again selected Sierra Wireless AirPrime modules for its smart metering product line."

For more information about AirPrime embedded wireless modules, please visit http://www.sierrawireless.com/airprime. For more information about Sierra Wireless solutions for energy equipment manufacturers and utilities, please visit http://www.sierrawireless.com/energy.

To contact the Sierra Wireless Sales Desk, call +1 (604) 232-1488 or email sales@sierrawireless.com.

About EDMI
EDMI is a market leader in the provision of smart energy meters and advanced metering solutions with its headquarters and manufacturing based primarily in Singapore. Its research and development facilities are strategically situated in Brisbane, Singapore and Shanghai to provide continuous product development and support to its growing global customer bases in Europe, the ASEAN region, Middle East, South Africa and the rest of Asia. EDMI has established marketing offices and regional hubs in Singapore, Australia, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, the Philippines, France and the UK. These centers serve as regional customer service and technical support hubs responsible for supporting specific local market requirements for our metering products. For more information visit, www.edmi-meters.com

About Sierra Wireless
Sierra Wireless offers industry-leading mobile computing and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications products and solutions that connect people, devices, and applications over cellular networks. Wireless service providers, equipment manufacturers, enterprises and government organizations around the world depend on us for reliable wireless technology. We offer 2G, 3G and 4G wireless modems, routers and gateways as well as a comprehensive suite of software, tools, and services that ensure our customers can successfully bring wireless applications to market.  For more information about Sierra Wireless, visit http://www.sierrawireless.com.

Source: Sierra Wireless

Sierra Wireless Reports First Quarter 2011 Results

Revenue for the first quarter of 2011 was $144.3 million, a decrease of 5% compared to $151.3 million in the first quarter of 2010. Mobile Computing revenue was $71.6 million, up 14% compared to $62.6 million in the first quarter of 2010. Machine-to-Machine (“M2M”) revenue was $72.7 million, down 18% compared to $88.7 million in the first quarter of 2010. The year-over-year revenue decrease in M2M was driven by significantly lower sales to Barnes & Noble, declining from $26.7 million in the first quarter of 2010 to $0.7 million in the first quarter of 2011, offset by solid year-over-year revenue growth of 16% in the remainder of the M2M business.

“While we are experiencing some weakness in the first half of 2011, we believe this is a short-term situation and expect to return to year-over-year growth and profitability in the second half,” said Jason Cohenour, President and Chief Executive Officer. “The company continues to execute on our strategy and make good progress on a number of business initiatives. In Mobile Computing, we have a strong pipeline of 4G products and anticipate numerous launches with leading operators and PC OEMs during the year. In M2M, we continue to build on our market leadership position and expand our role in the value chain.”

On a GAAP basis, gross margin was $39.5 million, or 27.4% of revenue, in the first quarter of 2011 compared to $46.3 million, or 30.6% of revenue, in the first quarter of 2010. Operating expenses were $48.9 million and loss from operations was $9.4 million in the first quarter of 2011, compared to operating expenses of $50.8 million and a loss from operations of $4.5 million in the first quarter of 2010. Net loss was $7.8 million, or $0.25 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2011 compared to a net loss of $7.5 million, or $0.24 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2010.

On a non-GAAP basis, gross margin was 27.4% in the first quarter of 2011, compared to 30.7% in the first quarter of 2010. Operating expenses were $43.2 million and loss from operations was $3.6 million in the first quarter of 2011, compared to operating expenses of $42.3 million and earnings from operations of $4.1 million in the first quarter of 2010. Net loss was $2.4 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2011 compared to net earnings of $4.1 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2010.

Non-GAAP results exclude the impact of stock-based compensation expense, acquisition amortization, integration costs, restructuring costs, foreign exchange gains or losses on translation of balance sheet accounts, and tax adjustments. We disclose these non-GAAP amounts as we believe that these measures provide our shareholders with better information on actual operating results and assist in comparisons from one period to another. The reconciliation between our GAAP and non-GAAP results of operations is provided in the accompanying schedules.

Financial Guidance for Second Quarter
The following guidance for the second quarter of 2011 reflects current business indicators and expectations. In the second quarter of 2011, we expect revenue to remain relatively flat sequentially from the first quarter and we expect Non-GAAP gross margin percentage to increase modestly compared to the first quarter of 2011 as we realize targeted product cost reductions. Primarily due to unfavourable foreign exchange created by a strengthening euro and Canadian dollar, we expect Non-GAAP operating expense to increase modestly compared to the first quarter of 2011.
With respect to the recent natural disaster in Japan, we expect to see some modest impact on our business in the second quarter of 2011. We are experiencing some component supply constraints and, in the second quarter, we expect the impact to be approximately $2 million in revenue.

For the second half of 2011, we expect year-over-year revenue and earnings growth.
Inherent in this guidance are risk factors that are described in greater detail in our regulatory filings. Our actual results could differ materially from those presented below. All figures are approximations based on management’s current beliefs and assumptions.

Source: Sierra Wireless

S&C Expands Layered Intelligence Offering by Acquiring Grid Optimization Solutions

The volt/VAR management solution further evolves S&C's smart grid solutions portfolio, which includes self-healing technology through the award-winning IntelliTEAM SG™ Automatic Restoration System, dynamic communication systems, and energy storage, and will help utilities realize greater grid efficiency and energy savings through conservation voltage reduction.

"Utilities are challenged with maintaining grid stability and power reliability, while reducing overall energy usage and conforming to renewable portfolio targets," said Mike Edmonds, S&C's Global Smart Grid Strategies Director. "The addition of a mature volt/VAR solution with proven installations enhances our smart grid offering, making it more flexible and scalable to meet diverse customer needs. S&C is now in an even better position to solve the broad range of distribution system operating and protection problems, positioning utilities to create the intelligent, dynamic grid needed to power our energy future."

About S&C Electric Company
S&C is applying its 100 years of innovation experience to address challenges facing the world's power grids and is thus shaping the future of reliable electricity delivery. S&C works to continually develop new solutions for electricity delivery, fostering the improved efficiency and reliability required for the intelligent grid. For more information about S&C, visit http://www.sandc.com.

Iverify Awarded $39m Video Monitoring Contract

The company, founded by industry veteran Mike May, was established in 2005 and has grown dramatically over the last six years, capturing Inc. 500 and Inc. 5000 awards for the last two years. The company's annual growth rate over five years has been in excess of 50%, speaking to the effectiveness of the service that Iverify provides. The Loss Prevention industry has struggled to implement an effective business model with video that delivers value and results that are sustainable and meaningful for retailers. Iverify broke the mold when it demonstrated you could reduce robberies, improve employee safety and reduce losses from shrink at lower costs than traditional security services.

Industry icon Mike Barnes offered the following statement: "Iverify has been at the forefront of delivering improved value in security operations for National Retailers while reducing the cost of security expense." Barnes continued, "Mike May has built a sophisticated team of Loss Prevention Professionals that remotely deliver security services at a very low cost. They have driven robbery and shrink rates down by over 50% at a number of national retailers. Mike's company is leading the industry into a new and highly effective business model that will be the standard for the delivery of security services for some time to come."

"Iverify will provide services under the contract that will secure over 550 stores for the next five years with its "I Guard" and "I Control" products, delivering projected savings of $62.5 - 70.0 million, net of costs. The suite of services will reduce guard costs, lower losses from theft, and improve employee safety. The outcome is that we will enhance overall operational compliance with security and safety practices while assisting this retailer with improved profits," said May.

In a recent press release, one of Iverify's notable clients, Family Dollar, operator of over 6300 stores nationwide, identified an improvement in their net income in Q1 based on reductions in shrink losses.

Source: Iverify

Hiliary Clinton Announces New Partnership to Harness Mobile Technology to Improve Maternal and Child Health

Mobile health messages are able to quickly and easily disseminate information that will inform women of ways to care for themselves during pregnancy, dispel myths and misconceptions, highlight warning signs, connect women with local health services, reinforce breast feeding practices, explain the benefits of family planning, and make new mothers aware of how best to care for their babies.

Over the next three years, the partnership, which is expected to mobilize $10 million, will work across an initial set of three countries, Bangladesh, India and South Africa, to help coordinate and increase the impact of existing mobile health programs, provide resources and technical assistance to promising new business models, and build the evidence base on the effective application of mobile technology to improve maternal health. Lessons learned from these and other initiatives will be shared globally in a coordinated exchange of information. The partnership will foster collaboration among similar initiatives in other countries to accelerate efforts to reach millions of women with mobile phone access around the world.

“If we are going to improve public health across the developing world, our solutions must be focused on reaching the hard to reach with health information they would otherwise not receive,” said USAID Administrator Raj Shah. “This partnership will harness the power of mobile technology to provide mothers with information about pregnancy, childbirth and the first year of life, empowering these women to make healthy decisions for themselves and their families.”

“Better health for communities starts with better health for expectant and new moms. This public-private partnership adds another way we are extending our commitment to moms everywhere,” says Bill Weldon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Johnson & Johnson. “It’s part of fulfilling our commitment to the UN Secretary General's Global Strategy to advance the Millennium Development Goals.”

“Instead of imagining a world where the health of mothers benefits from mobile phones, we are answering the call today to make it happen,” said Kathy Calvin, CEO of the UN Foundation and member of the Partnership Board of the mHealth Alliance. “This new initiative will take the vision that world leaders and the UN Secretary-General announced last year and turn it into action.”

“This is an exciting approach to using technological innovation to address development challenges,” said United States Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra. “The growing global network of mobile health information programs will deepen our understanding of how best to use mobile phones as a tool to improve women’s and children’s health.”

Each institution will play a unique role in this partnership. Founding partners, USAID and Johnson & Johnson, will provide funding and strategic leadership. Supporting partners, including the UN Foundation, mHealth Alliance, and BabyCenter LLC, part of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, will provide expertise, tools, resources and a forum to exchange knowledge and share best practices to support the research and extend the reach of promising initiatives.

The partnership supports President Obama’s Policy Directive on Global Development, his Global Health Initiative and the United Nations Secretary General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health

Source: mHealth Alliance

Photograph Courtesy US State Department web site

UPMC and Alcatel-Lucent Team to Develop Next-generation Telemedicine Solution

The solution, expected to be ready for commercial launch in early 2013, will offer secure, real-time clinical encounters in a virtual “exam room” designed to fit the workflow of health care providers and the mobility of patients.  Using a secure Web portal, patients will have access to both scheduled and emergency care from any location at any time through a variety of mobile devices using real-time video and audio communication among multiple participants in multiple locations.  At the same time, the system will securely generate, retrieve and store patient data in a clinically relevant way.

“Advances in telecommunications technology and the widespread adoption of mobile devices have paved the way for eliminating the restrictions that bricks and mortar have placed on health care,” said Rebecca Kaul, president of UPMC’s Technology Development Center, who will co-manage the effort and help to oversee development teams in Pittsburgh and New Jersey. “By combining our clinical and technological expertise, UPMC and Alcatel-Lucent are poised to deliver on the promise of providing seamless care to patients that is only a click away.”

The platform is being developed along with Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent’s research arm, making use of advanced technologies such as immersive and cloud-based communications.

“The challenge involved in creating this next-generation telemedicine system is designing a true multi-point communication platform that allows everyone involved in the medical case to securely view the same data and medical records at the same time regardless of the communication device used,” said Sid Ahuja, Vice President of Alcatel-Lucent Ventures, who will co-manage the initiative. “With cloud-based technologies, services and software applications are delivered from the Internet rather than a dedicated enterprise network in a single location, enabling a new level of medical collaboration and information sharing via secure real-time audio, video and data links.”

A national leader in the use of information technology, UPMC will consolidate its extensive telemedicine offerings on the new platform, with the goal of lowering costs and improving access to high-quality care.  Since 1997, UPMC has expanded its use of telemedicine into 16 service lines, including stroke care, cardiology, pathology, dermatology and ophthalmology. Its telemedicine network encompasses 19 facilities, both within and outside of UPMC, including ISMETT, UPMC’s transplant center in Italy, and UPMC Beacon Hospital in Ireland. UPMC also provides administrative support, business assistance and information technology services to hospitals, physicians and other medical professionals interested in telehealth services.

About UPMC
UPMC is a $9 billion global health enterprise with more than 50,000 employees headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., and is transforming health care by integrating more than 20 hospitals, 400 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites, a health insurance services division, and international and commercial services. Affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC is redefining health care by using innovative science, technology, and medicine to invent new models of accountable, cost-efficient, and patient-centered care. For more information on how UPMC is taking medicine from where it is to where it needs to be, go to external linkwww.UPMC.com.

About Alcatel-Lucent
The long-trusted partner of service providers, enterprises, strategic industries and governments around the world, Alcatel-Lucent is a leader in mobile, fixed, IP and Optics technologies, and a pioneer in applications and services. Alcatel-Lucent includes Bell Labs, one of the world's foremost centres of research and innovation in communications technology.

With operations in more than 130 countries and one of the most experienced global services organizations in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach.

The Company achieved revenues of Euro 16 billion in 2010. It is incorporated in France and headquartered in Paris.

FreeWave Technologies and Rockwell Automation Join Forces to Address Growing Water Management Issues

2 May 2011 - FreeWave Technologies, a manufacturer of reliable, high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, today announced a new initiative, in collaboration with Rockwell Automation, to design and implement a comprehensive SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system solution to tackle water municipality's growing issues in water management.

The problem: Water municipalities have water tanks that need to be kept full during peak usage times to keep up with increasing demands. Typically, a water tank is connected to a reservoir miles away via a pipeline, however, tank monitoring and pumping operations are being completed manually in many areas, creating numerous inefficiencies and cost constraints. To complicate matters, the main control rooms, the water reservoir and the water district headquarters are usually geographically dispersed.  In order to keep up with demands, water districts across the United States need ways to automate their water demand management and keep their investment low to make such a change feasible to end-users.

"In order to make this application work, the SCADA system needs to be able to monitor the water level in the tank, the line pressure throughout the pipeline and the flow rate when the pump is running, as well as control the drive that runs the pump," explains Ashish Sharma, chief marketing officer of FreeWave Technologies. "It also needs to have a Human Machine Interface (HMI) at the water district headquarters to provide monitoring and control of the entire system for the operators. Clearly, wireless communication is a must, but the system also needs to be very reliable, flexible and cost effective. Our customers are looking for a solution that is easy to deploy and maintain."

Because cost effectiveness and reliability are high priorities for public utility operators, both FreeWave and Rockwell Automation products are a natural fit for the water districts. The SCADA system consists of an Allen Bradley SLC5/05 PLC at the main control room, its PowerFlex 40 drive at the pump house with FreeWave's serial and serial IO radios connecting them together. The serial IO radios also allow the master Allen Bradley PLC to monitor pressure and flow rates throughout the pipeline as well as the water level in the tank. Along with the serial network, there also would be a pair of FreeWave Ethernet radios used to connect the SLC5/05 back to a Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus at the water district headquarters. Because multiple FreeWave radio networks can coexist at the same location, its FGR2-PE Ethernet radios are a trouble-free option. Typically, they would be used to link the Ethernet ports of the Allen Bradley SLC5/05 PLC and the Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus to provide seamless integration. "This allows for easy monitoring and control with real time updates of the entire system," Sharma says.

"With both Rockwell Automation and FreeWave products, it's easy to build a cost effective, yet very reliable SCADA system," he explained. "Because the FGR2-IO-IOE is a flexible wireless IO platform and a very reliable serial radio, it offers the ability to quickly and cost effectively add IO without having to add additional radios. This adds a level of flexibility that complements Rockwell Automation products perfectly."

About the FGR2 Series of FreeWave Radios:
Each member of the FGR2 Series of radios is fully backwards-compatible with earlier FGR radios and offers the lowest power consumption in the industry. The FGR2-CE-U is the serial radio option and the FGR2-IO-IOE Serial radio base provides a wireless platform for IO Expansion to any new or existing FGR serial network .The FGR2-PE offers users a second, switched Ethernet port as well as two serial ports to meet the demands of customers' wireless automation requirements. The future-proof combination of two serial ports and two switched Ethernet ports offers customers the ability to transition from serial to Ethernet data communication without having to replace their wireless communication hardware down the road, or operate both serial and Ethernet communication independently and simultaneously on the same platform. Additionally, each FreeWave FGR2 series radio is capable of transmitting data up to 60 miles line-of-sight (LOS).

About FreeWave Technologies
Founded in 1993, FreeWave Technologies manufactures reliable, high performing, lowest power consumption, spread spectrum and licensed radios for mission-critical data transmission.

FreeWave Technologies participates as an Encompass™ Product Partner in the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork™.  Through Encompass Product Partners, customers can quickly locate complementary products that best solve any application challenges. These products are critical components or connectivity solutions that extend and enhance Rockwell Automation installations.

About Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, makes its customers more productive and the world more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., Rockwell Automation employs about 19,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.

Source: FreeWave Technologies