Solar-powered wireless mesh networks

10 July 2013 Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

Sol Chip, a leader in solar energy powering of electronic and mobile devices, and Virtual Extension, a wireless mesh networks company, have developed high-performance wireless mesh network technology powered by solar energy harvesting.

Virtual Extension’s VEmesh networks, operating in the ISM sub-1 GHz frequency bands, are based on synchronised-flooding technology. This technology provides true bidirectional mesh networking with space diversity, and completely eliminates the need for routing and in turn the need for self-forming, self-healing and human involvement.

All VEmesh end-nodes also act as relays, to retransmit data in order to create a mesh modular solution, with no need for dedicated routers. The routers’ elimination means less communication overhead, as well as simpler and less expensive processors, while space diversity eliminates multipath effects and provides no single point of failure.

Another benefit of the new generation Virtual Extension wireless mesh networks is their low power requirement, thus enabling battery-powered applications to reliably run for many years on a single cell battery. Following the integration with Sol Chip’s energy harvester technology, this requirement for a battery is now eliminated.

For more information contact Arnold Perumal, Avnet Kopp, +27 (0)11 319 8600, [email protected], www.avnet.co.za

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