Visonic Ltd, Israeli manufacturer of wireless home security and safety products, has announced PowerG™—the company’s patent-pending wireless technology for intrusion alarm systems. PowerG will be the underlying technology for all the company’s new intrusion alarms.
Avi Barir, Visonic President and CEO, said: "We are extremely excited about this technological breakthrough and regard it as another step in reinforcing Visonic’s position as an innovative and market-leading company. This innovation gives us the ability to further penetrate into our existing markets and to enter new ones."
With PowerG-enabled intrusion alarm systems, security users and central stations can:
· Provide a wireless alarm system that has the makers claim strength and reliability closer than ever to that of a wired system
· Support their environment with a green, energy-saving solution
· Expand their business to include large premises and new applications
· Save money and time with it’s claimed fast and easy installations.
PowerG network uses Two-Way Low-Power Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) technology, similar the firm says to technologies used in military communication systems. The network continuously hops between multiple frequencies spread over the entire assigned frequency band. This is so that each transmission arrives uninterrupted at its destination. Frequency hopping is achieved using an encrypted pseudo-random sequence known only to the devices enrolled in the alarm panel.
Similar to the GSM cellular network, PowerG employs full two-way synchronised Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) communication technology: each device in the PowerG network is allocated unique timeslots for full two-way data transmission with the panel, streamlining communication and increasing channel efficiency.
By using FHSS and TDMA technologies, the PowerG network overcomes the makers say intentional and unintentional interferences, jamming, and collisions. As a result, the robustness and reliability of the wireless network increases. "Due to the rapid and ubiquitous adoption of wireless communication, performance of wireless security systems can be hindered by collisions, interferences, and jamming, all of which need to be addressed" says Laila Arad-Allan, Visonic’s VP Marketing. "Furthermore, our customers require reduced on-site maintenance and shortened installation time. These market needs call for an entirely new technology that will lead the industry into new magnitudes of robustness, integrity and usability. PowerG is that technology."
Visonic PowerG-based intrusion alarm systems are already being tested in beta sites worldwide. The first PowerG-based alarm systems will be commercially available in January 2011.
For more information visit Visonic’s web site and download "PowerG Technology Overview" –
www.visonic.com/innovation-technologies/technology-leadership
