Essensium puts Location Awareness into your Wireless Sensor Networks

Demonstration of Forklift tracking solution enabling Warehouse visbility with WMS integration!

Welcome

Essensium is a fabless chip company, specialized in ASIC solutions for Wireless Sensor Networks. Essensium offers the wide range of technologies that are needed to deploy Wireless Sensor applications: indoor and outdoor RTLS (Real Time Location System) awareness implemented in system-on-chip ASICs with wireless communications and focused on low-power solutions. Essensium assists its customers from early product specification down to delivery of tested and packaged silicon. Essensium acts as a turnkey SoC provider and adds key value to those stages of the development with the highest impact on the successful delivery of a competitive SoC solution: architecture design, integration, verification and FPGA prototyping. In addition, as a total system-on-chip solutions provider, Essensium's embedded SW team can deliver all the low-level SW needed to give application developers easy access to the silicon hardware.

Essensium's Product and Services:
Strategic Relations

Through its strategic relationship with wafer foundry Silterra, Essensium can provide priority access to advanced CMOS logic, mixed signal and RF technologies even at low and moderate volumes.

As a spin-off from IMEC, Essensium can stay abreast of the latest developments in innovative system architecture concepts and design methods for low-power, wireless, portable systems. The IMEC environment also offers a rich pool of semiconductor design talent from which Essensium can grow its team. Essensium is currently engaged in several research programs with IMEC and its affiliated University research groups in order to further develop innovative wireless technologies for the active RFID and wireless sensor networking markets.
The LOST family of RTLS products

News:

17-19/Mar/10: Live RTLS Demonstration at Move It Expo.

In collaboration with the Innovation Centre Limburg (Innovatiecentrum Limburg), Essensium were present in the Innovation Pavilion at MoveIT Expo 2010. We demonstrated the industry leading accuracy and range of our Real Time Location Services (RTLS) technology, along with specific products aimed at tracking vehicles such as Forklifts and Reach stackers across warehouse and yard operations. We also launched the first of our 200-series models, destined for hand held or belt worn operation, and enabling the accurate tracking of personnel both indoors and outdoors.

3/Mar/10: ESSENSIUM in the Press.

The IMEC, Europe´s largest independent research centre in nano-electronics and nano-technology, has published an in-depth interview with Johan Danneels, the CEO of Essensium.

You can find the full text of the Dutch language article in the IMEC´s InterConnect publication.

6-7/Feb/2010: ESSENSIUM´s MIND division gave Embedded Software presentation at FOSDEM 2010.

FOSDEM 2010 (Brussels, Belgium) was attended by more than 2000 Free and Open Source developers. Next to the main presentation tracks, the Embedded Developer Room included a series of presentations on Embedded & Kernel Development.
As one of the main players in the field of Consultancy and Services for Linux and Open Source Software for Embedded Systems, Mind gave a presentation on "Embedded Software Development Best Practices" using Open Source Software.

8/Jan/10: Key RTLS Patent granted to Essensium enables highly accurate position detection over long range.

The European Patent Office have published a key patent granted to Essensium regarding the ranging method which enables Essensium to provide a unique combination of high accuracy and long range in their wireless RTLS products.

8/Dec/09: Essensium joins the Wavenis Open Standard Alliance and starts volume production of Coronis’ first Wavenis compliant SOC

Essensium has joined the Wavenis Open Standard Alliance (Wavenis-OSA) as a Participating Member. At the same time, Essensium continues its partnership with Coronis S.A.S. to complete Coronis’ first Wavenis compliant SOC.

22/Oct/09: LOST RTLS ‘Pick and Place’ demo impresses attendees at Transport & Logistics Trade Show

Ing. Erik Cotman of PHI DATA presented a lively seminar on the subject of “Increased customers satisfaction, cost savings and competitive advantage with Wireless Sensing and Real Time Location Systems” to an audience at the trade show in Antwerp, Belgium.

Following his presentation, Essensium provided attendees with a floorplan view of the seminar area where they could watch the location and tracking of multiple packages as they were moved around the conference area, with a precision and accuracy down to individual chair locations. This was achieved without the need for tags on the packages themselves.