| Cooper Industries joins WiTECK at Promoter Level |
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March 3, 2009 Cooper Industries Ltd. has joined the Wireless Industrial Technology Konsortium (WiTECK) as a Promoter Member. It is the ninth member of the group and will hold seats on the WiTECK board.  WiTECK is an open, non-profit membership organization “working to provide a reliable, cost-effective, high-quality portfolio of core-enabling system software for industrial wireless sensing applications under a company- and platform-neutral umbrella”. Cooper expanded its product portfolio by introducing RF wireless technology in 2007. Omnex Control Systems—a business unit of the Cooper Bussmann division—has been involved in industrial wireless products for more than 20 years. Omnex involvement in WiTECK will help ensure that WiTECK’s products possess the same high reliability when applied in the field. “We welcome the contributions of Cooper Industries to the organization as we work to address the growing need for complex wireless sensor network software,” said WiTECK president and chair, Michael Dow of Freescale Semiconductor. WiTECK’s goal is to develop software that implements existing specifications. As wireless communication standards increase in complexity, the cost of creating core software for what is essentially standard technology rises. Once completed, this software represents a maintenance burden to the developer and can easily become obsolete if not enhanced regularly. WiTECK was formed to share this cost and risk across a number of suppliers, yielding faster time to market and increased product interoperability. WiTECK projects will serve the wireless automation marketplace in both process and factory automation and control. Anticipated projects are all embedded in nature: resulting software will be used as a component of products to be marketed by WiTECK’s member companies. WiTECK’s first development project is a stack based on WirelessHART. CLICK HERE to visit WiTECK. CLICK HERE to visit Cooper Industries. |
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