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Calling All Design Engineers…Lantronix Announces Third Annual Wireless Design Contest

Lantronix continues to drive wireless innovation with its annual contest,awarding $20,000 for the best M2M wireless applications using the Match Port b/g device server module  loaunched in /2007

A leader in wireless device networking technology, Lantronix, Inc.  announced the 3rd edition of its popular Wireless Design contest. 

This year’s contest challenges engineers, students and hobbyists to develop a creative and practical wireless product using Lantronix new MatchPort™ b/g , an 802.11 b/g embedded wireless device server module. With MatchPort b/g, contestants can add WiFi to virtually any electronic device with a serial interface so it can be accessed, monitored and controlled wirelessly over the Internet.

·      First Place$6,000       ·   Second Place$4,000    
·     Third  Place$2,000    ·    Most Likely to Succeed$2,000 
 ·    Best Entry from a Student/Educational Facility$3,000     

To enter, contestants simply submit their application concept through the Lantronix Web site and later submit a working prototype design.

All design entries had to be received on or before March 3, 2008. Winners werel be announced at the Embedded Systems Conference April 14-18, 2008  in San Jose, California.

Entries were be judged on technical merit, originality, business value, cost-effectiveness and design optimisation.

In addition to travel compensation to the awards ceremony at ESC, Lantronix will award cash prizes for the following categories: … a new category this year for the most commercially-viable design “Wireless technology continues to make a major impact by significantly enhancing the value of products and services that OEMs deliver to their customers,” said Chris Preston, Senior Vice President of marketing for Lantronix.

“As a pioneer in WiFi-enablement solutions, our market-leading modules have been designed into products in just about every industry and a myriad of diverse applications.”

Preston continued, “The Wireless Design Contest is yet another example of our ongoing commitment to accelerate the innovation of wireless device networking. Year over year, the number of entries continues to grow. We expect this year’s contest to generate even more innovative designs that further demonstrate the near limitless potential of wireless devices that can be managed over IP-based networks.”

The 2007 WDC winners included:          

First Place ($6,000): Damien Hubaux and his engineering team from CETIC in Belgium for their SAND (Smart Adaptable Network Device) System, a small, autonomous and flexible embedded system based on a ‘soft processor.’ The SAND System can be used by transportation companies looking to acquire objective data about its driver’s behaviour in order to better train workers and decrease fuel consumption.

Second Place ($4,000): Kevin Hubbard, from Washington, for his WiFi Clock, a fully functional alarm clock with Internet access. With its unique features, the WiFi Clock provides end users an innovative design to retrieve customised, real-time information such as weather, news or email.

Third Place ( $2,000) : Mohamad Abou El-Nasr, assistant professor at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in Egypt. His Wi-Aquarium allows users to remotely control and monitor an aquarium anytime from anywhere in the world, and ensures an optimum aquarium environment and healthy fish.

For all contest details, including rules, entry form and more information on past winners, visit www.lantronix.com/wirelesscontest.

About Lantronix MatchPort b/gPart of the MatchPort family of form-factor and pin-compatible wired/wireless device networking modules, MatchPort b/g allows designers to quickly and easily build 802.11 connectivity and web services into any product allowing the ability for remote device configuration and monitoring. It includes an embedded operating system, full-featured network protocol stack, a radio system driver, a built-in web server and Windows deployment software all in a compact 45mm x 45mm with 40-pin 2mm header. MatchPort b/g also includes 2MB of Flash memory for web page storage and firmware and supports 802.11i/PSK, WPA-PSK and AES encryption to ensure data security and integrity

For more information, please visit: www.lantronix.com/matchport