Suited for healthcare, warehousing, manufacturing, and back-end retail environments, Model LS3008 rugged handheld scanner includes multi-line rastering scan pattern that eliminates need for exact aim and positioning, enabling users to scan one-dimensional bar codes that are damaged, small, or poorly printed. It is sealed to IP53 standards to withstand rigors of everyday use, including frequent drops to concrete and exposure to water and dust.
HOLTSVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 8 // — Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SBL), The Enterprise Mobility Company(TM), today introduced the LS3008 rugged handheld scanner designed for high-performance and reliability in healthcare, warehousing, manufacturing and back-end retail environments. Leveraging Symbol’s innovative design knowledge and boasting a small, ergonomic form factor, the LS3008 broadens Symbol’s rugged scanner portfolio to meet the needs of customers and markets where cost and ergonomics are critical factors for customers seeking real-time data capture capabilities.

Built to withstand the rigors of everyday use, including frequent drops to concrete and exposure to water and dust, Symbol’s new LS3008 rugged scanner is sealed to IP53 standards and provides optimized productivity while reducing the need for equipment repairs, ultimately lowering the total cost of ownership. The LS3008 scanner meets the varying demands of healthcare professionals seeking a reliable bar code capture tool for bedside and patient management; retailers needing a rugged, feature-rich scanner for back-end operations; warehouse workers responsible for shipping and receiving products in an efficient manner; and associates performing light assembly within a manufacturing environment.
“Symbol’s new LS3008 bar code scanner puts a rugged and highly reliable scanner in reach of all customers regardless of size or market,” said Bob Sanders, vice president and general manager of Symbol’s advanced data capture division. “The LS3008 is an easy-to-use, lightweight bar code scanner that requires minimal training and enables users to scan objects comfortably in less than optimum conditions.”

Providing customers with real-time access to business-critical information to help improve decision-making processes and streamline operations, the new LS3008 is equipped with multi-line rastering scan pattern to eliminate the need for exact aim and positioning. This feature enables customers to quickly and accurately scan one-dimensional (1D) bar codes, including those that are damaged, small or poorly printed, without delay or the need to rescan.

The LS3008 handheld scanner reduces total-cost-of-ownership by enabling remote, network-based device management to lower IT expenses and enable customization in large, multi-scanner environments. Along with a scratch- resistant, tempered glass window for high-quality scanning, the LS3008 also offers single circuit-board construction eliminating the failure points commonly found in competing scanners.

To help customers protect their investment and maintain peak performance, Symbol Global Services offers Service from the Start Advance Exchange Support for the LS3008. This multi-year service agreement provides next-business-day delivery of a replacement device to help organizations maximize uptime and productivity. Symbol’s Service from the Start Advance Exchange Support also includes Symbol’s unique Comprehensive Coverage, which extends normal wear and tear to cover accidental damage to scan elements, exit windows and other internal and external components at no extra charge — virtually eliminating unforeseen repair expenses.

The Symbol LS3008 rugged bar code scanner has a list price of $419 and is currently available to order globally through Symbol partners.

About Symbol Technologies

Symbol Technologies, Inc., The Enterprise Mobility Company(TM), is a recognized worldwide leader in enterprise mobility, delivering products and solutions that capture, move and manage information in real time to and from the point of business activity. Symbol enterprise mobility solutions integrate advanced data capture products, radio frequency identification technology, mobile computing platforms, wireless infrastructure, mobility software and world-class services programs. Symbol enterprise mobility products and solutions are proven to increase workforce productivity, reduce operating costs, drive operational efficiencies and realize competitive advantages for the world’s leading companies.

Socket, Symbol Collaborate - to make 802.11b cards for PDAs, mobile bar code scanning equipment - Brief Article
Socket and Symbol plan to optimize WiFi features to meet the special requirements of mobile devices, including ease of installation and use, low power consumption, enhanced security and small form factor.
Newark, Calif.-based Socket will develop scanning and WiFi plug-in products for mobile devices through its established global retail and Internet channels. In addition, Socket will work with Holtsville, N.Y.-based Symbol to develop new plug-in bar code scanning products for mobile computing devices such as Pocket PCs, Palm PDAs and other handheld mobile computers.

The AS-8310 CCD bar-code scanner from Argox is a long-range scanner that features a 2048 pixel CCD optical system with 600 millimeter scan depth and 160 millimeter scan width. The AS-8310 automatically discriminates between all standard bar codes while others can be ordered optionally. Beeper operation can be set for one of seven tones or no beep. An overmolded rubber jacket provides harsh environment protection. The unit also is available with a hands-free caddy. Argox USA, Ventura, Calif.

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New from Frontier Silicon, the Naples FS2011 is billed as the industry’s first miniature, highly advanced and integrated stand-alone dual-band DAB/FM radio module for handheld battery powered products. The compact low-cost low-power high-performance unit is available now and is also incorporated in two new portable DAB/FM radios from leading manufacturers Bush and Ministry of Sound. The Naples FS2011 is a complete DAB module operating in both master and slave modes and incorporating Frontier Silicon’s Apollo RF front-end, Chorus DAB baseband processor and NXP Semiconductor’s TEA 5764 FM radio IC.

Naples is unique in that it combines both DAB and FM in a very small slimline module measuring just 35 x 38 x 2.7mm on a highly compact single-sided PCB.

The module is an ideal low cost route to market for manufacturers needing to quickly incorporate both DAB and FM radio functions in next generation handheld radio enabled devices such as DAB/FM portable radios and multimedia-enhanced PDAs.

The module also enables personal DAB radio and internet audio devices when used within a suitable product such as Frontier Silicon’s Atlas 2 platform.

The DAB signal processing functions and protocol stack are implemented in firmware running on the Chorus processor, which also runs the control interface to Naples.

The Naples module offers simple and flexible integration, configurable in both master and slave modes.

In a master configuration the module requires a power source, antenna, LCD and keypad to create a fully featured digital radio.

Alternatively, the module can be controlled by an existing microcontroller as a slave module via a serial port or SCB (serial control bus) compliant device allowing it to be integrated into larger audio systems like CD micro hi-fi or home cinema systems.

The module also supports various software features such as DAB dynamic DLS radio service text, 256Kbit/s decode capacity, stored presets and manual tuning when configured in system applications.

The SmartTrans multitechnology reader has been approved by the US General Services Administration (GSA) for the FIP201 programme. The SmartTrans reader is the first contactless smart card multitechnology reader that is included on the GSA Approved Products list. ‘As one of the leading RFID the companies in the world and as technology partner of our customers, we recognised the need for an dual technology reader that will add value to an existing infrastructure instead of replacing it’.

‘We are very pleased that our work has been awarded GSA Approved Products list for contactless physical and logical smart card readers’, says JP Hulsker, CEO of Integrated Engineering.

‘The approved products list from GSA is a great resource, which offers the US Government possibility to benefit from our knowledge and experience with the various technologies and our experience within the market’.

The SmartTrans provides a transition path from existing proprietary legacy 125kHz Prox technologies to an open standard ISO14443 technology.

The reader combines ISO14443 technologies, such as Mifare, DESFire and PIV, and 125kHz prox technologies in one reader.

The reader provides configurable output formats and output protocols.

The SmartTrans accepts a wide range power supply voltage from 5 to 16V DC.

Z-Point Products has made its ZigBee USB Dongles available in a special wireless signal-strength evaluation kit. The kit offers users who are interested or curious about ZigBee a low-cost means to evaluate its suitability for their needs. ‘One of the most common questions that we hear from customers regarding ZigBee is ‘will it work for my application?”, reports Brian Empey, CEO of Techsol and CTO of Z-Point Products.

‘Our clients have interesting challenges to solve’.

‘They want to know if a ZigBee switch in the house will be able to turn off the lights in the stable (that their client’s daughter left on) 400 feet away from the house’.

‘We can’t answer that from our office’.

‘But now we offer a tool that lets them test it out themselves’.

The ZigBee Wireless Evaluation Kit comes as a set of three wireless devices plus software for Windows or Linux computers.

One ZigBee USB dongle plugs into a PC in one location.

Another plugs into a laptop that can be carried around.

And the third is simply a co-ordinator that is installed nearby.

As the user walks around with the laptop, the screen shows the strength of the signal that it is receiving plus the strength that the other user receives.

In addition, there is an ‘instant messaging box’ that lets them communicate with each other.

This feature was added at the request of building automation customers who want to test the suitability of ZigBee for operation between floors of buildings.

Now users can test the viability of ZigBee wireless as a communications mechanism through different media, over different distances, or any other test that is relevant to their particular challenges.

This kit, based on the same ZigBee Dongle that was demonstrated at Light Fair 2006 in May and hailed by the ZigBee Alliance as the world’s first Zigbee product, is available for only $345.

Wireless networking specialist Radionor Communications has established an alliance with Arrow in which the company supplies and provides engineering support for key technologies deployed in Radionor’s latest broadband radio products. Since it was founded in Norway in 2000, Radionor has grown to supply international markets with a variety of broadband technologies developed around wireless Internet Protocol (IP) technology. Applications for the company’s products range from high-accuracy tracking of mobile telecommunications equipment to SIM cards with embedded WLAN transceivers and WiMAX smart antenna solutions.

In addition to supplying a broad range of electronic components, Arrow is helping Radionor to speed new product development programmes by providing locally focused field application engineering (FAE) support.

This support covers a variety of areas, including the identification, selection and design-in of key semiconductor technologies.

Discussing the relationship with Arrow, Atle Saegrov, Radionor’s founder, comments: ‘As a small company penetrating international markets our strategy has always been to form strategic alliances with partners that can give us competitive advantage’.

‘By providing high levels of engineering support, the alliance with Arrow goes far beyond component supply and has become an integral aspect of our ongoing product development process’.

Christian Brusdal, Arrow Norway’s Sales Manager, adds: ‘Arrow has always recognised the importance of combining a broad linecard with comprehensive engineering support focused on meeting requirements at a local level’.

‘The relationship with Radionor is an excellent example of how this approach can help small to medium sized businesses to develop leading edge products in the tight timescales needed to ensure competitive advantage’.

RF Monolithics has announced the DM2200 module for wireless sensor networking. The DM2200 combines low power consumption components and RFM’s high-performance third-generation Virtual Wire radio to provide longer range than was previously possible with a battery powered mesh networking node. The DM2200 is a powerful and versatile embedded module that provides superior performance across a broad range of industrial automation applications.

The DM2200 communicates 600m in open air while only consuming 4.5mA in receive mode and 68uA in standby mode.

‘RF Monolithics has found that no one wireless connectivity architecture provides adequate performance in all applications, even within a single industrial facility, and that different technologies must be employed to provide satisfactory solutions’, said Wayne Stargardt, Director of Marketing for RFM’s Wireless Systems Group.

‘The DM2200 is an important addition to our portfolio of standard wireless mesh networking products, and it allows us to offer an off-the-shelf solution for industrial applications that must communicate over long range on battery power’.

The DM2200 uses RF Monolithics’ VersaMesh mesh networking protocol to provide its powerful communications functions.

In addition to aggressive power management that complements the low power hardware, VersaMesh uses a rules-based routing architecture.

VersaMesh’s rules-based routing can be easily modified to optimise performance for low latency, long battery life, high reliability or other requirements of any specific application.

VersaMesh also enables every node in the network to function as a router while also connecting to sensors.

Further, VersaMesh allows any node to communicate to any other node without having to route through a single network master or co-ordinator.

The DM2200 is designed as a solution to a broad range of industrial wireless connectivity applications.

In addition to long transmission range and low power consumption, the DM2200 can be configured to support thousands of nodes in a single network.

The DM2200 is versatile in connecting with machines through its serial port and ten configurable I/O ports.

The DM2200 provides an application environment that supports user applications running on its embedded microcontroller, which can often enable users to avoid an additional microcontroller in their product designs.

The initial version of the DM2200 wireless module operates in the 900MHz unlicensed frequency band, and has already been certified for operation in the USA under FCC 15.247 regulations.

It will be followed by future versions that operate on frequencies for use in other countries.

Samples of the DM2200 are available immediately and production quantities will be available in September 2006.