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| Home > Featured Products > Volume 5 - RFM Cirronet Zigbee OEM Modules |
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| Integrating Cirronet ZMN2400 ZigBee OEM Modules in OEM Product Can Reduce Development Costs by $200,000 or More, and Reduces Time-to-Market by Months |
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When enabling ZigBee wireless connectivity in their devices, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) must first answer the question, “Make or buy?” If a chip-set costs about $5 each and a ready made module costs around $15, why buy a module? Considerations such as FCC certification and ZigBee testing, RF design expertise, time-to-market and development cost are key factors in answering the make or buy question.
However, more and more OEM designers are answering the question resoundingly to “buy!”
ready-made Cirronet ZMN2400 ZigBee OEM modules and systems. Here’s why.
- Limit regulatory certification and ZigBee testing. Every ZMN2400 ZigBee module from Cirronet comes with
FCC module certification and has undergone ZigBee Alliance testing. This means that for the devices in
which the modules are embedded / integrated, FCC type acceptance is not required. ZigBee Alliance
testing may not be required. This saves weeks and months of time and effort.
- Streamlining Design. The ease of integration of ready-made ZMN2400 modules streamlines the RF
engineering process. Each ZMN2400 module is treated just like other integrated circuits in OEM designs.
Even though they are complete OEM modules, ZMN2400 modules are reflow soldered to the host PCBs
so there is no need for expensive, unreliable connectors. Also, Cirronet engineers provide as much
integration support as needed to get OEM products to market fast and alleviate the burden of possessing
or obtaining senior-level RF engineering expertise. By letting Cirronet be the experts, OEMs streamline
design and avoid substantial man-time costs.
- Accelerating speed-to-market and reducing overall costs. Cirronet ZMN2400 ZigBee modules save OEMs
effort, time and money to get their product to market fast. Because no RF design work is required, OEMs
can avoid at least $100,000 in RF development equipment costs. OEMs avoid the effort, time and
additional expense to obtain FCC certification. Plus, Cirronet, with over 20 years experience helping
hundreds of OEMs, provides consistent production of ready-made OEM modules that ensures a steady
OEM manufacturing supply chain.
OEMs wanting to get up and running quickly should purchase one of the Cirronet ZMN2400DK Development Kits, available from Nu Horizons starting at $199. The Development Kits accelerate the integration process as it comes complete with all the components to put a system “on the air.” Setting-up and configuring the ZigBee module is easy and the Development Kit allows development of interface to the OEM system and development of the OEM device control software. Full technical support from Cirronet is available at no extra charge.
Contact Nu Horizons today to order the development kit you need.
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| Cirronet’s low power / low cost ZigBee radio solutions bring wireless mesh networking to short-range, low-data applications that require long battery life and low cost. They are perfect for home, commercial, and industrial applications, operating from –40°C to +85°C. Available as OEM modules, Modbus and Ethernet gateways, signal conditioning boards, and sensor modems, each ZigBee radio is well-suited for a variety of sensing applications. For applications needing low power consumption but not meshing, Cirronet’s LPR family of 802.15.4 OEM modules fit the bill. Developer’s Kits are available for both the ZigBee and 802.15.4 products. |
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| Cirronet’s proprietary, patented FHSS products offers superior immunity to fade and interference to deliver critical data over long ranges in the most challenging environments. FHSS products include WIT, SNAP, SEM, and HopNet lines. Cirronet’s low-cost, Proprietary Mesh network modules include the DM-series which are especially suited for battery-powered sensor network applications. |
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| RFM’s 2G and 3G Virtual Wire feature proprietary ASH technology and integrated RF IC with quartz SAW filtering and frequency control components in a single hybrid greatly simplifying and speeding up the RF design task. No external RF filters, IF filters, resonators or crystals are required. RFM’s RFICs include PLL based, single or multi-channel Transceivers, Transmitters and Receivers, Evaluation boards and RF Design Assistant Software. They feature Integrated PLL, IF, Baseband Circuitry to minimize external component count and simplifying and speeding design-ins, with very few external components required. |
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| RFM’s low-power, rugged SAW Resonators, SAW RF and IF Filters are available in a variety of small, leaded and surfacemount packages for RF, IF, and other applications. RFM’s small, high performance frequency control devices include Oscillators, SAW stabilized Optical Timing and Diff-Sine Wave clocks and Crystalbased products. RFM also provides custom-designed components to meet your unique requirements. |
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Point-to-point, multipoint & mesh topologies |
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433 MHz to 2.4 GHz frequencies |
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9600 bps to 1.2 Mbps data rates |
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FHSS and DSSS |
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UART & IO interfaces |
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1 mW to 1 W RF power |
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6 MHz to 2.6 GHz |
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Small size |
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Low cost |
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Low-power consumption |
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300 to 1000 MHz |
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SAW & crystal-based |
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OOK/ASK & FSK modulations |
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Low-power consumption |
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Data rates up to 1 Mbps |
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Small size |
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FCC & ETSI certfiable |
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