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News Release from: Ember Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 October 2005
ZigBee turns to US Government duties
Ember has signed a strategic investment and development agreement with In-Q-Tel, a private venture group established by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Ember Corporation has announced a strategic investment and development agreement with In-Q-Tel, a private venture group established by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Ember, a leading ZigBee wireless semiconductor systems company, will use the investment to develop wireless sensor, monitoring and control technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Oct 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Ember develops tiny, low power ZigBee systems for creating wireless sensing and control networks that automatically configure and heal themselves, and work for years on very little power.
Ember's ZigBee system is already being used in a variety of consumer and industrial applications, such as home automation and control, automatic meter reading and cold chain monitoring.
The US Government has a variety of low-power, low-datarate applications that will benefit from Ember's proven commercial platform.
"Ember is the market leader with a mature platform that has been successfully deployed in a variety of applications around the world", said Gilman Louie, President and CEO of In-Q-Tel.
"We believe their technology has great potential to improve the security and efficiency of government and defence operations".
Ember's ZigBee leadership is reflected in its long involvement and contributions in helping to forge the standard.
Ember is a promoter of the ZigBee Alliance, with its employees serving in strategic and technical roles in the organisation.
Ember's semiconductor system is also the National Technical Systems' (NTS) "Golden Suite" for evaluating IEEE802.15.4/ZigBee products for interoperability.
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