SAN JOSE, Calif.-Aeris.net announced several agreements at the Wireless I.T. show last week, including the deployment of its Microburst cellular control channel technology by Echoport Inc. and NeoTech Products Inc.
Echoport licensed the technology to introduce a wireless data imaging solution for remote information acquisition and off-site device automation for wireless Web-based appliances.
The solution covers alarm, motion-detector and meter-reading monitoring, the company said, via the EchoPort Central communications facility for tracking management.
Wade Vessy, Aeris.net vice president of sales and marketing, said the solution is the first retail product to incorporate Microburst technology, as opposed to the many vertical application based solutions the technology powers.
In particular, the solution allows users to receive monitoring updates via cellular phone, pager, Web page or e-mail, the company said.
“EchoPort’s product lines are designed to target very large retail market opportunities,” Vesey said.
The agreement with NeoTech brings MircoBurst to a new fleet- management solution. NeoTech will use the technology to provide vehicle tracking and system monitoring functions. Going past mere tracking functions, the NeoTech Mobil-Trak XL system also transmits vehicle diagnostic data via the MicroBurst network to central offices nationwide, the company said.
Beyond these licensing agreements, Aeris announced it joined Orbcomm Global L.P. to offer an integrated multinetwork Internet Protocol Gateway targeted at monitoring and tracking applications.
The Wireless Internet Transaction Service IP Gateway combines Aeris’ Microburst technology network with Orbcomm’s data-only satellite network. Devices equipped with both satellite and terrestrial transceivers may access the common IP gateway for dual-mode data services, providing full ubiquity of data coverage for the United States and Canada.
WITS allows end-to-end acknowledgement of message reception and delivery, message management, security-using Secure Socket Layer protocol-and other transaction-scheduling features, the company said.
Finally, Aeris added to its coverage area via an agreement with Illinois Valley Cellular and Rural Cellular Corp., under which the carrier will deploy the MicroBurst technology across its network.