In collaboration with the Innovation Centre Limburg (Innovatiecentrum Limburg), we have the pleasure of inviting you to visit our stand in the Innovation Pavilion at MoveIT Expo 2010. We will be demonstrating 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 will also be launching 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.

Free registration is available online at Move It Expo 2010.

The Embedded World Exhibition & Conference remains the world's undisputed biggest get-together for the international embedded community, as the figures show. The exhibition set another new record in 2009 with more than 700 exhibitors, and some 16,000 trade visitors used the opportunity to obtain an impression of the latest trends in embedded technologies.
Embedded World 2010 was once again the international get-together for the embedded scene, for hardware, software, tools or services.

As co-exhibitor of DSP Valley, Essensium´s MIND division were happy to be part of this great event.

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.

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.

Essensium’s patented approach to RTLS combines the long range benefits of Narrowband and the high accuracy of Wideband in a single Wide-over-Narrowband RF implementation. This results in an industry-leading RTLS implementation giving both the accuracy of a precise UWB system combined with long range, and thus lower infrastructure costs, better than that of typical Narrowband or WiFi methods for RTLS.

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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.

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As one of the main players in the field of Consultancy and Services for Embedded Systems, Essensium’s embedded software division, Mind, hosted a booth at the exhibition in Leuven, Belgium. As part of the exhibition program, they also gave a presentation on the topic of “State-of-the-art open source software for embedded systems: from Linux distribution to multimedia frameworks” where they highlighted the advantages of, and best practices for, the use of open source software in embedded systems.

Full presentation details are available here.

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.

Read more about this demonstration of ‘Virtual Tagging’ using Essensium’s LOST system for RTLS.

Essensium will be attending the 7th edition of the Transport and Logistics Trade Show in Antwerp Expo on 20-22/10/2009 in order to follow up on the significant benefits their RTLS technology (LOST) can bring to the logistics sector. For further information, to arrange a demo, or to schedule a detailed discussion of how LOST RTLS can contribute to your business success, please contact sales@essensium.com.

Götting, a major supplier of solutions for Automated Guided Vehicles evaluated the LOST technology for implementation in indoor carriers. LOST is not only a welcome complement for use in Automated Guidance but provides also added value with Track&Trace and location capability.
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Essensium N.V. specialized in wireless sensor network development for systems and system-on-chip products, today announced that it has appointed Stephen Dunphy as Senior Product Manager for its RTLS (Real Time Location System) product line leveraging the innovative LOST technology.
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Essensium and PHI DATA announnced today in a joint press release the successful deployment of a pilot test on the premises of DP World in the harbor of Antwerp. Essensium LOST technology was successfully used to track and locate in real time the movement of straddle carriers moving containers over an area of 400 meters a side. The test ran for one week and proved that not only is the LOST technology accurate within 50cm but it also maintains this accuracy in the harsh environment created by several cranes and carriers and the presence of a very extensive and heavy loaded WIFI network. The LOST technology was found to be the best in terms of range, accuracy and cost of ownership of the many RTL systems evaluated by PHI DATA over the last years.
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The demo kit contains all hardware and software that is used in a typical set-up for the LOST Real-Time-Location-System. It allows interested customers to evaluate the performance of Essensium's LOST RTLS technology in applications such as indoor vehicle and people tracking. It consists of four Reference Nodes, two Mobile Nodes, two Light Mobile Nodes, all power cords, adapters and batteries. This material is suited to cover areas of 200m by 200m. The set-up is performed in less than one hour thanks to the LOST Graphical User Interface, once the floor plan is entered. This software together with all documentation comes on a USB stick and runs on a Windows platform. The network status and location of the Mobile Nodes are displayed on a screen and can also be accessed via a TCP/IP socket. The complete Demonstration kit comes in a sturdy transportation case.



The demo kit is available on request on sales@essensium.com.

The ALOHA project is now funded by the Flemish Government for 895.000€. The final objective of the ALOHA project is to create all IP needed for the development of a LOST SoC for use in the LOST RTLS system. With this SoC the size, the weight and the power consumption can be drastically reduced. The useful life time of the mobile nodes will be extended from a few hours to several years. The performance on accuracy will be further improved. This will allow Essensium to get into the market of asset tracking and people tracking with competitive products. The research program is conducted in cooperation with the ESAT-MICAS division of the KULeuven and the INTEC-IMEC division of Ghent University. It involves an investment of 18 person years of effort and has duration of 25 months.

On March 19, 2009, Essensium presented at WPNC (Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication) in Hannover, Germany. WPNC is a platform dedicated to both outdoor and indoor positioning and shows a clear trend toward the hybridization of both systems. As a strong believer in this evolution, Essensium presented its LOST technology at the workshop. The paper was very well received, with many positive interactions with high-profile workshop participants.

Today, Johan Danneels presented the technological answer to the RTLS challenges in the field of logistics as well as the practical translation of this in Essensium's product offering to a crowded seminar at Imec organised by Leuven Inc. under the central theme of "Technology that makes logistics smart".
View the presentation in pdf.

Today, Essensium presented the paper 'A Novel Positioning Technique in 2.4GHz ISM Band' at the IEEE Radio And Wireless Symposium (RAWCON2009) in San Diego, USA. The paper explains in detail Essensium's LOST ranging technology. The presentation got exellent feedback from both academia and industry and clearly showed that LOST offers superior positioning performance compared to state-of-the-art solutions.

Stora Enso is a world leading paper producing company. In order to achieve the highest production efficiency, continuous tracking of people and rolling material is extremely important. With this system, driver errors resulting in production losses are eliminated.

Essensium proved the field applicability of its indoor and outdoor RTLS technology without any alterations or modifications of the yard, and without disrupting the production cycle. Essensium's RTLS technology has been especially designed to endure severe industrial requirements including humidity and extreme temperature ranges. It has also been designed to allow simultaneous indoor and outdoor long distance tracking and localization of moving assets.

The complete system was deployed and operational in less than an hour. Precise position with accuracy of better than 50 centimeters and long distance tracking over the complete yard was achieved.



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On November 27th, Essensium was happy to welcome three students industrial engineering from the Karel De Grote Hogeschool and introduce them to the different aspects of engineering life in a technological environment.

ELC-Europe 2008 (ELC-E) is a joint conference with the NLUUG Autumn Conference on Mobile Computing.

This combined conference has proven to be a unique opportunity to get updated on the latest trends and solutions regarding the use of Linux in Embedded systems. A detailed list of the presentations can be found here.

With his Deep Sjeng chess engine, Gian-Carlo Pascutto won a gold medal in Speed Chess at the 13th Computer Olympiad held in Beijing, China from 28 September to 5 October 2008. Gian-Carlo has been working on this chess engine in his free time and it is a great personal achievement for him to win on a standard computer against engines that are running on super-computers and developed by large teams of developers. Gian-Carlo also won a Silver and a Bronze medal in Go (9x9) and Go with his program Leela.

Essensium was present this weekend at the Openbedrijvendag on Imec's premises. Thank you for having visited our booth.

Frederic Stubbe, Director Wireless Products, presented the LOST RTLS technology: its main characteristics, advantages over other positioning technologies, and how it deals with interference and other obstacles.

In a separate session, Raoul Daniëls, Marketing and Sales Director at Essensium, presented jointly with Coronis Systems, “localization within wireless sensor networks”.

Please visit the RFID conference website for the presentations.

Today, Essensium proved the field applicability of its RTLS technology, LOST. A complete LOST set-up was deployed in the indoor storage yard of Your Mover and brought into operation in less than one hour. The one-meter positioning accuracy was confirmed in this real-life storage environment.

The field trial happened with the courtesy of logistics company “Your Mover”.



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Essensium gave its testimonial to the undergraduate students of the huge potential of the ICT business.
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Essensium N.V will contribute to the IASTED Wireless Sensor Networks Conference 2008 with a paper entitled “A Novel Ranging Technique for the 2.4 GHz ISM Band”.
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On June 10th, 2008 DSP Valley will organize a seminar about tool chains for embedded software development. The purpose of this seminar is to give an update of currently available tool chains for developing and testing software.
Presentation in pdf.

Essensium N.V. has demonstrated for the first time and for a large audience of experts and business partners the full capabilities of the LOST-technology.
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Essensium N.V. has revealed to his project partners the first experimental results of the LOST transceiver. After somewhat more than one year of development, Essensium has already proven the viability of the LOST-technology.
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Coronis Systems and Essensium join forces to develop the next generation ultra-low- power, long range Wavenis System-on-Chip solution.
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Essensium has appointed Adrien Ampélas as new Sales & Marketing Manager - Embedded Software for Mind.
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Essensium N.V., a fabless provider of SoC ASICs (system-on-chip application-specific integrated circuits), today announced that is has become member of the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA). Read more

Essensium N.V., a fabless provider of SoC ASICs (system-on-chip application-specific integrated circuits), today announced that it has established a joint research program with the Vrije Universiteit Brussels "ETRO IRIS" research group. The purpose of the joint research program is to develop positioning algorithms that derive a best estimate for the position of mobile active RFID tags using range measurements between the RFID tags and multiple fixed infrastructure reference beacons.
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Essensium and IMEC's division INTEC_design at the University of Ghent collaborate on ranging enabled transceivers.
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