For immediate release - January 10, 2002
BlueGiga Technologies and Scansupply A/S Sign Distribution Agreement for Industrial Bluetooth� Solution to OEMs
Espoo, Finland and Birkerod, Denmark- January 9, 2002
BlueGiga Technologies, a leading provider of industrial Bluetooth� connectivity solutions, and Scansupply, a Danish Distributor specializing in components, systems and value adding services in wireless technologies especially aimed at Bluetooth, announced today they have signed a Letter of Intent to enter a distribution agreement offering BlueGiga's industrial Bluetooth platform, WRAP (Wireless Remote Access Platform), the fast and complete, pre-qualified building block for adding intelligence and pervasive wireless connectivity to industrial systems and equipment. BlueGiga's WRAP� is a turn-key wireless solution enabling industrial OEMs to quickly develop new wireless applications or adding wireless connectivity into existing devices. BlueGiga's WRAP family of products include the WRAP 2100 MicroServers and WRAP 3000 Industrial Access Server, working together to enable 3 levels of wireless machine interaction:
Man-to-Machine: replacing traditional user interfaces with Bluetooth enabled PDAs, mobile phones or laptop computers with wireless MMI (Man-Machine Interface) using graphical interfaces such as HTTP and JAVA.
Machine-to-Machine: removing industrial cables and wires between devices and adding more intelligence into each embedded device.
Machine-to-Networks: wireless communications over the Internet between industrial devices and existing backbone systems such as databases, ERP and industrial control systems.
WRAP also integrates several existing technologies with Bluetooth including Ethernet, TCP/IP and Linux. The WRAP MicroServer facilitates the creation of embedded wireless applications in modern development environments by providing developers with full hardware/software platform and tools including AnsiC, Java, Linux, TCP/IP Sockets and Bluetooth APIs.
"We are very pleased to introduce this new partnership with Scansupply. This allows us to offer our range of industrial wireless connectivity products to the vast range of Danish OEMs in the industrial segment who will benefit from a complete turn-key solution from hardware to complete user software" says Hans Holmberg, BlueGiga's Marketing Director.
"The partnership with innovative BlueGiga will give us a leading edge in our offerings to the Danish industrial market. We are convinced the Bluetooth technology and BlueGiga's clever implementation of it in the products will be of utmost interest and importance in the years to come. The BlueGiga products are well suited to secure the competitiveness for the Danish OEMs" says Anders Rasmussen, Managing Director at Scansupply.
BlueGiga's WRAP solution will be showcased at the Scansupply booth C10: 38 during the EP2002 in Stockholm, January 15-18.
About BlueGiga
BlueGiga Technologies is an innovative wireless technology company based in Espoo & Turku, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden who develops and markets integrated product solutions and design services tailored to industrial customers' needs. Our mission is to help the OEMs in creating wireless remote connectivity and pervasive access to electronic devices and systems in order to realise substantial cost savings and productivity improvements.
More information about BlueGiga can be found at https://www.bluegiga.com or send an e-mail to [email protected]
About Scansupply
Scansupply was founded in 1961, basically as a component distributor. In 1974 the energy activities started together with Saft in France. The product range covers from small NiCd, Ni-Mh, Lithium to advanced batteries for space and defense. During the last five years, Scansupply has expanded the product range to cover any kind of AC/DC power systems, chargers, solar modules, lead acid batteries and primary alkaline. In parallel Scansupply is engaged in various wireless technologies with special focus on Bluetooth. Today the Company hold franchises from Silicon Wave (www.siliconwave.com), Reselec (www.reselec.ch) and now BlueGiga (www.bluegiga.com). For systems and software development our partner is RTX (www.rtx.com) who is Silicon Wave's authorized design center for Europe.
More information about Scansupply can be found at http://www.scansupply.dk or contact us at [email protected].
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Press Contacts:
BlueGiga
Hans Holmberg, Marketing Director, [email protected], tel: +46
733 32 71 72
Scansupply
Anders Rasmussen, Managing Director, [email protected], tel: +45 45
82 50 90
