Kansas City, USA and Cambridge, England – Arcom demonstrates its commitment to industrial wireless network gateways by joining the ZigBee Alliance at the participant level. The ZigBee Alliance is an international association of companies working together to enable and promote ZigBee wireless technology as an open standard. ZigBee is a low power low cost, wireless mesh networking technology designed for monitoring and control applications in industry and home automation.

Arcom already produces a range of wireless network gateways and edge routers for use with RFID and cellular radio technology. Arcom has also been producing industrial network gateways using private spread-spectrum radio networks, iDEN and GPRS cellular radios, and low-earth orbit satellite technology for over 10 years. Arcom is now developing an IEEE 802.15.4 / ZigBee ready radio product using Chipcon’s industry leading CS2420 device for low power mesh networking applications. “Arcom has many years experience producing network gateway devices which link legacy and proprietary devices to standard LAN, W-LAN and cellular networks” said Glen Middleton, Managing Director of Arcom in Cambridge, “and, as a participant member, we look forward to contributing to the activities of the Gateway Working Group within the Alliance.” 

Arcom will soon launch a rugged, low power network gateway product based on ARM/XScale technology with integrated IEEE 802.15.4 / ZigBee capability. Further announcements will appear later this year.


ZigBee is a trademark of the ZigBee Alliance.

About Arcom (www.arcom.com)
Arcom, a Spectris company (LSE: SXS.L), is a leading supplier of embedded computer and communications technology to industry. Founded in 1982, Arcom has developed a broad range of standard embedded hardware and software solutions for control, data acquisition and data delivery systems. From its design centers in Kansas City (US) and Cambridge (UK), Arcom is also able to offer Design Services to meet the needs of high volume OEM and specialized customer requirements.

About the ZigBee Alliance (www.zigbee.org) 
The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. The ZigBee Alliance is a rapidly growing, non-profit, industry consortium of leading semiconductor manufacturers, technology providers, OEMs, and end-users worldwide.