Zinwave partners with Pacific Wave to bring the next
generation in-building wireless coverage solution to Asia Zinwave

Zinwave Ltd, a pioneer and leader in next-generation in-building cellular and wireless technology, today announces that it has partnered with Pacific Wave Pte Ltd, one of Asia's leading wireless product distributors. With bases in Singapore and Indonesia, Pacific Wave further strengthens Zinwave's presence in Asia. This partnership is driven by significant demand in the Asian markets for Zinwave's unique active Distributed Antenna System (DAS).

Zinwave produces the Zinwave 3000 true wideband active DAS which uniquely provides in-building wireless coverage for any service and wireless technology between 136MHz-2700MHz, irrespective of protocol or modulation scheme. It offers a flexible, scalable solution that adapts easily to future changes in services without the need for hardware upgrades.

"Zinwave is the first wideband active DAS provider in the world to gain LTE approval from the FCC " said Colin Abrey, VP of Sales & Marketing, Zinwave. "Our customers recognise just how far ahead of the competition our solution really is. As demand for our Zinwave 3000 active DAS in Asia has grown we've needed to think seriously about whom we engage with. Pacific Wave's enormous success in the Asian marketplace and its position as a well respected distributor place Zinwave in a strong position to deliver its leading active DAS solutions to more of the Asian market. We look forward to a long and prosperous relationship."

"Asia features some of the fastest-growing economies in the world, and the demand for in-building wireless services is exploding," added Andrew Herman, Pacific Wave. "Furthermore, Asian networks have shown themselves to be amongst the most forward-thinking in the world. There is huge potential here for a truly future-proofed in-building wireless solution like Zinwave's. The system can be easily planned, installed and maintained with minimum disruption and cost.  This product perfectly compliments Pacific Wave's comprehensive range of wireless infrastructure offerings."

Zinwave's worldwide expansion continues to gather pace, with many distributors eager to resell the world's most versatile in-building wireless system. Zinwave has recently announced a distribution agreement with the highly-acclaimed US-based distributor Hutton. It has also recently announced a partnership with Crossover, the leading distributor of wireless solutions in Canada.

Furthermore, Zinwave will soon announce the completion of additional partnerships in the Middle East, as well as large-scale in-building wireless projects in Asia.

Zinwave in profile
Zinwave is at the forefront of wireless technology development, pioneering a new approach to in-building unified wireless infrastructure.  With unique patented technologies drawn from world-leading research groups at Cambridge University and University College London, Zinwave is today operated by a management team with extensive experience in all parts of the wireless industry and international telecoms markets. The company has developed a Wideband Distributed Antenna System that addresses the challenges of providing ubiquitous wireless coverage inside buildings for multiple simultaneous services with the same infrastructure and components. www.zinwave.com

Pacific Wave in profile
Pacific Wave was founded in 1996. From the moment of its inception Pacific Wave has always strived to deliver top-class service as a one-stop-shop for RF components for the telco/cellular industry.

Understanding time-to-market pressures is critical. Pacific Wave has a huge amount of warehouse space with over 50 products, keeping delivery times low.

Pacific Wave covers the full range of cellular products; everything from indoor/outdoor antennae, multiband combiners, wideband splitters, couplers, amplifiers, GPS equipment, and most other things you can think of.

Pacific Wave's customers in the Asian regions include MobileOne Celcom China Mobile, Unicom, Taiwan Cellular, Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, and many others.

For further information, view website: www.pacificwave-wireless.com

Plextek launch 'Sentinel', a high resolution wireless
camera system that can be deployed in under five minutes

Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy, today announced the launch of Sentinel, a high resolution wireless camera system that can be deployed in under five minutes.  Combining a high-performance digital sensor and zoom optics, intelligent real-time image processing and 3G connectivity, the battery-powered integrated system provides excellent video resolution for important scene areas, matched to the variable bit rate of cellular networks.  Sentinel automatically detects moving objects to determine the image areas for high quality transmission and to trigger alarms, delivering an easy to use system for both portable and vehicle use.  In addition an operator may select static image areas for high-quality transmission.

Sentinel is ideally suited to defence and security applications such as public order monitoring, special operations and crime scenes requiring fast set-up, as well as allowing flexible and cost-effective monitoring of multiple locations.  Sentinel identifies areas of interest in the image and intelligently assigns different amounts of image compression to each one. Video quality can therefore be maintained for important image areas whilst reducing it in others. This allows optimised image resolution to be sent over wireless links having bandwidths limited to cellular speeds. Together with real-time motion and target tracking to identify important elements of the scene, the system can adapt dynamically as the link quality varies, allowing users freedom to concentrate on the important aspects of a scene.

Sentinel is ideally suited to defence and security applications such as public order monitoring, special operations and crime scenes.

"The Sentinel system solves the problem of providing high resolution monitoring in a portable platform", says Graham Tootell, Project Engineer at Plextek. "Not only does it provide excellent imaging, it can be configured to trigger an alarm when people stray into certain areas making it ideal for the police and armed forces. Having these capabilities deployed in under five minutes means that an area or crime scene can be secured rapidly and potential problems identified and averted more effectively."

The system offers a full 360-degree pan and a battery life of 24 hours in a typical scenario, together with all weather monitoring and resolution that can allow person identification at distances in excess of 600 metres.  The modular system architecture also allows the standard 3G wireless modem to be substituted with alternative wireless link transceivers according to requirements.

This is the first system offering utilising Plextek's suite of image processing functions launched in early April. Plextek's software processing can be applied to a wide range of cameras and sensors, including high quality cameras incorporating digital image sensors such as used in Sentinel.  The functions provide much better resolution for image areas of interest whilst trading it off in others, giving better overall system performance.

Plextek will be showcasing Sentinel at Defence Services Asia (DSA), Stand 7P28, Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19th - 22nd April 2010.

Plextek Limited in profile
Based near Cambridge, UK, Plextek was established in 1989 and has grown to be one of the largest independent electronics and communications design facilities in Europe.  It provides innovative design of complex communication systems and devices for a wide range of companies from technology start-ups to multi-national engineering conglomerates, and also undertakes supply of the finished products.

Plextek operates across the telecoms, automotive, medical and defence sectors.  In addition to supplying a range of its own security products (Blighter Ground Surveillance Radar), the company prides itself in providing an outsourced resource of highly experienced, multidisciplinary engineering skills to organisations that require challenging electronics design projects to be delivered within competitive time and cost constraints.  Business services include strategic consulting, technology studies, product and concept design, introduction to manufacture and full contract manufacturing.

Its 300 clients encompass a range of global organisations, from BAE Systems, the UK MoD, QinetiQ and Raytheon to TDK and Sony.  Plextek also supplies automotive security products to both LoJack Corporation and TRACKER Network (UK) Ltd.

Last year Plextek became the proud recipient of two Queen's Awards for Enterprise, for Innovation and International Trade. Plextek was also named 'Consultancy of the Year' at the British Engineering Excellence Awards (BEEAs), and ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA. In 2010 it was named Business of the Year at The Cambridge Evening News Business Excellence Awards. For further information, e-mail: jlh@plextek.co.uk or view website: www.plextek.com

RS Components first to stock the latest Prysmian kits using hazard-free resin

RS Components is the first distributor to help its customers to improve safety and meet tougher new EU requirements by stocking Prysmian's latest low voltage cable jointing kits, which use a new and non-hazardous resin as joint encapsulating material (JEM). 

Skin diseases are among the most important emerging risks related to extensive use of, and exposure to, chemicals.  Under new EU regulations coming into force in December 2010, conventional isocyanate-based joint-encapsulating resins will be re-classified as a Category 3 carcinogen, and will have to carry a warning stating that they are "suspected of causing cancer by inhalation".

Tackling this issue head-on, Prysmian Cables & Systems has formulated a new, hazard-free JEM resin.  Packed in a clear film sachet offering a completely visible but enclosed mixing system, the hazard free non isocyanate resin is now provided as standard.

The new JEM resin fulfils all the performance requirements for cable jointing and has been used for five years by a major UK utility company with no electrical failures recorded.  Independent testing has shown it to be non-irritating, non-sensitising and non-flammable - so avoiding the need for hazard labelling.  And, as an added bonus, it is easier to mix and flows better than conventional jointing compounds.

Suitable for 600/1000V polymeric insulated copper conductors with steel wired armoured (SWA) cables to BS6346, BS5467 & IEC502, Prysmian's low voltage straight-on cable jointing kits provide an ideal solution when crimped connectors are required.

Manufactured with two types of shell design - a clear injection moulded version for smaller cable sizes (MPJ 1, 2, 3 and 4), and a vacuum formed HIPS design to cover the larger ranges (MPJ 5, 6, 7 and 8), all joints include connectors and armour bonds, and are tested and approved to BS EN 50393 & ENA ER C81/3. 

RS Components is currently the only distributor to stock the new Prysmian kits, which are available from stock for next-day delivery. For further information, including specifications and a data sheet, can be found online at: http://rswww.com - from where customers can also place their orders.