WAGO Bluetooth® RF-Transceiver Module Receives Control Engineering 2010 Engineers' Choice Award
GERMANTOWN, WI - February 2010 - WAGO Corporation's 750-644 Bluetooth® RF-Transceiver Module has won Control Engineering's 2010 Engineers' Choice for "Wireless Products - General" category. Control Engineering readers evaluated 96 products within 29 industrial subcategories to identify new products that best represent technological advancement, service to industry and market impact.
"With more than 600 votes cast in the Engineers' Choice Awards this year, all entries across the 29 product categories were exposed to an array of voting engineers' scrutiny," explained David Greenfield, Control Engineering Editorial Director. "As a result, WAGO's win of the Wireless Products category with its 750-644 Bluetooth RF-Transceiver module indicates a high level of end-user respect for their product. We congratulate WAGO for its success in bringing to market a product of such high interest and value to the automation and controls engineering community."
Bluetooth® Module for Cost-Effective Controller-to-Controller Applications:
The 750-644 enables rapid controller-to-controller coordination of variables within a controller process image, as well as I/O status. Within 10ms, the DIN-rail mount 750-644 exchanges data up to 1000m (line-of-sight) or 100m (within buildings) for cost-effective networking.
Featuring a Class 1 radio, the 750-644 acts as a master, communicating with up to seven slaves on a piconet/Personal Area Network (PAN) via Bluetooth® 2.0+EDR radio technology. Slave-to-slave data transmission is also indirectly possible through the master. Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum technology ensures piconet co-exists with other radio transmission technologies such as Wi-Fi. Device matching technology, data encryption and up to a 16-character, case-sensitive access code (95 bits of entropy) ensure security.
"Bluetooth®-enabled controller-to-controller technology is an innovative, cost-effective solution to streamline complex applications," said Charlie Norz, Product Manager - WAGO-I/O-SYSTEM. "We're pleased Control Engineering readers have honored the 750-644 with this award."
WAGO's 787 Series 4-Channel Electronic Circuit Breakers were also honored with a 2010 Engineers' Choice Award for "Power Protection." Past Engineers' Choice Awards: 750 Series Stepper Module for "Motion Control" (2006); 758 Series WAGO-I/O-IPC for "Embedded Control" (2004). The WAGO-I/O-SYSTEM received an Editors' Choice Award for "Control Components" in 1995. The 750-871 Ethernet Programmable Fieldbus Controller received an Honorable Mention in 2008's Engineers' Choice Award. All winners posted at: http://www.controleng.com/awards.
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WAGO is the leader in spring pressure connection technology that eliminates loose wires resulting from vibration and temperature cycling, while providing reliable, corrosion-resistant and maintenance-free connections. www.wago.us, 1-800-DIN-RAIL or info.us@wago.com.
Contact:
Charlie Norz,
Product Manager
WAGO-I/O-SYSTEM
E-mail: info.us@wago.com
http://wago.us/bluetooth
