【Publish Date:2008-07-22】

Tokyo, Japan, 22nd July 2008: Jennic Ltd. continues to exploit the IEEE802.15.4 open radio standard by the demonstration of wireless “near video” transfer. Jennic will publicly show this for the first time at the Wireless Japan Show held at the Big Sight International Exhibition Centre in Tokyo this week.

The demonstration shows several frames per second being transferred from a camera to a screen over an IEEE802.15.4 wireless link. The low-power properties of the standard make this approach particularly relevant to applications that require long battery life coupled with intermittent video transfer. Commercial uses for the technology include wireless door-entry cameras, security cameras, home monitoring products, toys, and advanced remote control solutions. The solution uses a commercially available image coding chip together with Jennic’s JN5139 single chip wireless microcontroller to give a low cost, low power solution.

Toshi Sato, Country Manager at Jennic Japan Branch Office, commented, “Customer demand has lead Jennic to develop this application. As deployment of wireless communications continues to rapidly expand, innovative new applications are emerging. The IEEE802.15.4 global standard coexists seamlessly with the other worldwide IEEE radio standards, however, unlike other radio standards, IEEE802.15.4 has a flexible application space enabling developers to apply wireless connectively in a wide variety of new products.” Sato continued, “Other radio standards tend to be designed for specific applications, such as HotSpots or Headsets where the entire function is defined by the standard.

This works well for specific functions, but is not entirely suitable for non-standard applications, and this, along with low power consumption, is the advantage of the IEEE802.15.4 standard”.

About Jennic
Jennic is a fabless semiconductor company leading the wireless connectivity revolution by providing wireless microcontrollers for a broad range of applications. Its expertise in systems and software combined with world class RF and digital chip design provides low cost, highly integrated wireless microcontrollers with a focus on the IEEE802.15.4 and ZigBee standards.

The company’s products include state-of-the-art low power wireless microcontrollers, mdules, development platforms, protocol and application software.