Riding European air waves

, a Kansas-based global supplier of wireless solutions for industrial and commercial OEMs, announces its 868MHz spread spectrum transceiver for products delivered to

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AeroComm is one of a few companies to gain approval for an RF solution that operates in this highly restricted European band. On the date of its release, more than twenty expectant manufacturers have already designed the AC4868 transceiver into their products.

Built to provide OEMs with license-free RF communications over distances up to 15 kilometres, AC4868 is said to be the affordable alternative to products operating in the saturated 433MHz band. AeroComm claims the solution is priced at hundreds of dollars less than competing solutions, and is the only 868MHz transceiver to deliver up to 250 milliwatts of output power (EIRP), the maximum allowed in Europe.

AeroComm's robust transparent protocol (RF232) has been embedded into AC4868s to support a host of communication architectures such as point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, or peer-to-peer. AC4868's dynamic serial firmware manages difficult over-the-air issues, such as error detection, multi-path concerns, link verification, and interference.