On-Ramp Wireless Launches First System to Efficiently Connect Billions of Hard-To-Reach Sensors in Metro Scale Environments

Ground-breaking wireless sensor networking system for wide area, low data
rate applications provides a 25x advantage in terms of range and capacity

San Diego, Calif. – September 16, 2009 – On-Ramp Wireless today announced the general availability of its Ultra-Link Processing™ (ULP) Wireless Communication System, a ground-breaking wireless networking technology for wide area, machine-to-machine applications. Leveraging On-Ramp’s ULP technology, this is the first system purpose-built to efficiently connect billions of hard-to-reach meters, sensors and tracking devices in metro scale and other challenging environments.

Operating in the un-licensed 2.4 GHz spectrum, ULP provides a 600x network coverage advantage and 25x capacity efficiency advantage over competing free spectrum protocols enabling broad adoption of wireless monitoring and control applications from large enterprise and industrial campus deployments to metroscale networks by significantly lowering overall network cost.

The field proven system can be used for metro-scale monitoring in smart grid, industrial condition monitoring, location tracking and security sensing applications. On-Ramp’s system is currently engaged with major application partners in several metro and industrial area field trials. The ULP system represents a breakthrough in signal processing, as it is the first to be able to demodulate signals below the noise floor while also effectively maintaining network capacity and low system cost. The System is comprised of small wireless modules, the ULP eNode, which has open and standard interfaces, and can be easily integrated with a wide range of vendor applications. The eNodes communicate with the ULP Access Point, which is used to transmit and receive data to and from potentially thousands of remote modules.

“On-Ramp Wireless is proud to announce this giant leap in wireless networking,” said Joaquin Silva, President and CEO of On-Ramp. “With our low power, open, and scalable system, application vendors can rapidly integrate their solutions to benefit from our substantial range and capacity advantage. As On-Ramp simplifies wireless networking by lowering network infrastructure requirements, we also significantly lower total cost of ownership.”

About On-Ramp Wireless
On-Ramp is a provider of the first wireless system purpose-built to efficiently connect billions of hard-to-reach devices in metro scale and other challenging environments.  On-Ramp’s field-proven Ultra-Link Processing™ system enables low-power monitoring and control applications within Smart Grid, industrial sensing, and location tracking. Operating in un-licensed spectrum, our signal processing innovation finds weak signals even in high noise environments, yielding extreme coverage, immunity to high interference, and significantly lowers cost. For more information, visit www.onrampwireless.com.

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