Forum: Wireless, Wireless Sensor & Telemetry Technologies to enable

machines to “talk” to each other

Wireless, wireless sensor & telemetering technologies

This “Wireless”

Fortronic event

will take place on

the 28th June

2011 at the

superb Williams

F1 conference

centre near

Oxford.

Background to

the Wireless

Forum

The impact of

new technolo-

gies

Morning ses-

sion topics

Afternoon ses-

sion topics

Wireless is becoming more and more the right solution to easily solve the

“connectivity” required in the automation of buildings, remote monitoring and

many other (up to now) wired systems. Wireless connectivity is increasingly likely

to be found in homes, utilities, industrial, medical, transportation systems and many

other areas in the near future. Radio Frequency has become the physical layer of

preference for connecting a distributed intelligence in many environments to real-

ize “Wireless Sensor

Networks”.

This Forum will ad-

dress principally the

on-site or short

range applications,

where transmit and

receive distances are

below one mile.

The wireless moni-

toring and control

products shipped for

on-site applications

use an assortment of

proprietary and industry standard wireless interfaces. The following figure will give

some insight to the anticipated growth of short range wireless products. Addition-

ally, cellular M2M applications and technology solutions will be covered where

short range wireless products are to be complemented with long range wireless

gateway style communications A significant focus of this Forum is on those catego-

ries of products and applications working on the base of the IEEE 802.15.4 Stan-

dards. This product group is expected to enjoy considerable growth over the next

few years according to many analysts including VDC Research, ABI Research and

WTRS to name a few.

“Global shipments of short range wireless ICs (Bluetooth, NFC,

UWB, 802.15.4, Wi-Fi) are expected to surpass two billion units this

year, increasing approximately 20 percent compared to 2009.

Shipments are forecast to total five billion in 2014, according to Q4

2009 market data from ABI Research.

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Bluetooth

Bluetooth ICs made up a significant part of the total short range wireless ICs shipments,

Bluetooth took more than 55 percent, followed by Wi-Fi at around 35 percent; the rest of

the shipments were made up of NFC, UWB and 802.15.4 ICs. According to ABI Re-

search mobile handsets are the main users of Bluetooth ICs to date. However, the applica-

tion of Bluetooth technology is gradually moving into computers and consumer electronic

products especially now that Bluetooth low power is a reality. Bluetooth low energy (BLE)

opens a substantially new market for products and devices needing low cost and low power

wireless connectivity. Likely vertical markets include healthcare, security, and home enter-

tainment. New Bluetooth business opportunities will be created with the advent of reducing

prices of chips used in the BLE products. Three major integration solutions that include

Bluetooth; Bluetooth+FM radio, Bluetooth+Wi-Fi+FM, and Bluetooth+FM+GPS, are likely to

account for more than 30 percent of all Bluetooth combination chip shipments in 2010.

These combination BLE products are expected to make up 50 percent of total Bluetooth

combination IC shipments in 2014.

New forecast in the Q3 2009 edition of the WTRS Wireless Sensor Network

Technology Trends Report projects strong market growth in the smart meter-

ing market for ZigBee chipsets to reach 68% CAGR, over the 2009 to 2014 pe-

riod.

Zigbee and 802.15.4

ZigBee and other IEEE 802.15.4 standards are making significant progress penetrating the

Smart Metering market. ZigBee is starting to play a strong role in smart metering as one of

the primary contenders to connect the stand-alone or meter-integrated gateway into the

home, as well as the basis for creating the home area network of appliances and electronics

that are likely to be networked to the meter. Emerging Wireless Sensor Network technolo-

gies and associated software including ZigBee, Z-Wave, Low Power WiFi, IEEE 802.15.4

and other options are all contenders for this market space. The market size will primarily

depend on customer adoption of these new use cases which include overall electricity usage

and specific home device consumption.

Wearable wireless sensors

Bluetooth Low Energy, ZigBee, 802.15.4 and proprietary offerings are all under considera-

tion for wearable wireless sensor systems as considerable benefits ensue from a wireless

infrastructure. Key to these benefits is the development of wireless sensors to measure im-

portant body parameters and communicate the data to remote systems. Over the next five

years the market for wearable wireless sensors is set to grow to more than 400 million de-

vices by 2014 (ABI research). Demand will come from the professional healthcare, home

healthcare and sports and fitness markets, but these markets will develop at different

speeds and will support different applications. The sports and fitness market represents

more than 90 percent of the market today. It is very early days for wearable wireless sen-

sors in the healthcare market, but a number of factors are coming together to support

strong growth over the next five years.”

M2M Markets are growing strongly….

Cellular M2M (Machine-to-Machine) module shipments approached 28 million in 2009,

and they are set to quadruple and exceed 114 million in 2015. This is a market showing

strong growth, but not all segments of it are benefitting equally. (ABI Research)

Why are analysts expecting such a high growth? The Technical Director for the Fortronic Forum series,

Franco Musiari, has received inputs as follows:- The two primary motivations for choosing a wireless network over a wired approach are the flexibility

and the cost-savings associated with eliminating cables and wires. With no wires or cables to route, a wireless monitoring system is inherently more flexible than a

traditional network. You are not locked into a fixed network topology or system setup, leaving

open the possibility for additions, upgrades, extensions, and so on. The flexibility of wireless remote monitoring systems can translate into large cost savings. For ex-

ample the expense of running cables or wires in an industrial environment cannot be ignored when

calculating the return-on-investment (ROI) of a new monitoring system.

The Forum will have three main areas of focus: The morning session with a series of presentations that focus on the different aspects of the

main subject (see below for the suggested arguments); The afternoon session with a series of workshops and “educational” (see the relevant explana-

tions) The exhibition where the sponsor will have the opportunity to exhibit their products and get in

direct contact with the participants.

The final programme is as follows:-

Morning Program – Technical Presentations

9.30 Welcome and Introduction to the day

9.40 Wimedia and wireless usb

University of Reading. Ing Dr Simon Sherratt, Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering 10.00 Zigbee RF SW stack overview including Sensor solution (RUM) , ATMEL. Oliver Kruger Applica-

tions Engineer Northern Europe

10.20 Harvesting Energy from motion, light and heat for interoperable wireless monitoring and control

EnOcean John Corbett Director

10.40 to 11.10 Mid morning break – Refreshments in the Piers Courage Suite

11.10 Speeding time to market for wireless networking designs - Murata Wireless Division Rui Ramalho

Senior Wireless Application Engineer 11.30 Category killer: The next generation wireless network for high memory data collection,

RAMTRON Duncan Bennett Marketing Manager, Automotive, Secure and Ultra Low Power Memory 11.50 Optimisation of Battery design for Wireless Sensors Network – Varta Microbatteries Robert

Hieber Product Manager. 12.10 Essential Criteria for Selection of GPRS modules for an embedded M2M application . MSC /

Quectel Walter Puhl Manager RF Group MSC-Gliechmann

12.30 Very Large Low Power Sensor Networks, NXP Jennic Gordon MacNee

12.50 Short/Long range wireless technology: an overview of what is available

Avnet Embedded -Alastair Worth Marketing Director Avnet Wireless & Networking

01.10 to 2-30 Buffet lunch (served in the Piers Courage suite)

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Afternoon Workshops

2.30 to 5.3 0

Estoril Room Avnet Embedded will be hosting short (30 minute) workshops and demonstrations

from the following suppliers:-

2.30 Cinterion - Scalable solutions for GSM integration

3.00 Option - Small & innovative modules for 3G,HSPA technology and beyond

3.30 Roving Networks - Bluetooth and WiFi solutions for industrial and consumer

applications

4.00 Coronis - Ultra Low Power Radio for M2M applications

4.30 Multitech - The Shortest Path to Cellular Communications

Jerez Room 2.30 Ramtron - Implementing the lowest cost wireless sensor network – tools, com-

ponents and architecture. 4.00 NXP Jennic - RFID reference design and how to use this as a template for thou-

sand node and larger networks.

Barcelona Room

2.30 EnOcean - Real world design of energy harvesting devices. 3.30 Sierra Wireless – Extending the power of GSM/3G modules with embedded

applications

4.30 Lantronix – Feature rich, Deployment ready WiFi Networking and Web Server

Module

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www.fortronicuk.com

Chris Osborn

Fortronic International UK

+44 ( 0 ) 7824444612

chris@motiv8uk.com http://www.fortronicuk.com/