GainSpan's focus on meeting customer needs includes partnering with industry leaders to solve problems and enable new capabilities. With our partners, we work to develop solutions that address customer needs from end-to-end, to easily share data, maximize battery life, and more, and foster an ecosystem of solution providers that help people save money, save energy, and work smarter.

Customers


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Aginova

Aginova Inc. provides affordable, low power Wi-Fi sensor network solutions that make a ubiquitous sensing world come alive by providing customers actionable feedback. Aginova's products bring the sensor world to the internet using web services and are used in environmental monitoring applications as well as condition based maintenance applications in industrial and the defense markets. For more information, visit www.aginova.com.


"Using GainSpan's low power Wi-Fi based solutions we found that the almost ubiquitous nature of Wi-Fi reduced total system cost and the 'off the shelf' tools made development easy," said Ashok Sabata, PhD, Aginova, Inc., a provider of wireless sensor networks for condition based maintenance and storage monitoring. In just two months, we've developed a complete Wi-Fi temperature monitoring solution for storage spaces (from warehouses to refrigerators). In fact, our customer demos have gone so well that we expect to start installations in Q4."



Alps

Alps Electric is a leading global manufacturer of electronic devices, supplying over 40,000 different components to about 2,000 companies all over the world. You won't often see Alps products, but they play vital roles in many devices you use everyday. Our business domain is "Perfecting the Art of Electronics". Throughout its business domain, Alps Electric creates new values that satisfy stakeholders and are friendly to the earth. www.alps.com.


"GainSpan's highly integrated Wi-Fi technology has allowed us to create a very small Wi-Fi module that lets manufacturers add Wi-Fi capability to their designs quickly and easily."


Cypress

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC(R) programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC(R) solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense(R) touch sensing and TrueTouch(TM) solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge(R) solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.


Evrisko

Founded in 2008, Evrisko Systems, LLC is a Wisconsin-Based company dedicated to improving Building Automation Systems (BAS) by developing and manufacturing the next generation of open-platform, low-power, Wi-Fi-based wireless sensors, wireless controllers, and user interface software. In June 2009, the company has earned the state of WisconsinÕs Qualified New Business Venture (QNBV) certification. More information is available at www.evriskosys.com.


Hitachi

Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd., along with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, sale, servicing, and execution of social and industrial infrastructure machinery, mechatronics, air-conditioning systems, industrial plants, and energy plant equipment in Asia and internationally. It offers building equipment, industrial air-conditioning facilities and clean rooms, engineering services, refrigerating facilities, water treatment and environmental preservation systems, dust collection systems, power plants, industrial equipment, and material handling systems. The company also operates logistics, rental, and information systems businesses. Hitachi Plant Technologies serves the food, pharmaceutical, fine chemicals, industrial, electrical, and mechanical market sectors. For more information, visit www.hitachi-pt.com


"We chose to use the highly optimized Wi-Fi SoC from Gainspan as it enables a long battery life while using existing Wireless LAN (WLAN) access points (AP) and IP (Internet Protocol) networking. This allows our sensors and tags to be used in the field for many years while simplifying deployment and integration with the enterprise networks."



North Pole Engineering

NPE, Inc., headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a provider of embedded technology solutions for a broad range of industries. The company specializes in advanced technologies that combine hardware and software disciplines to provide low-cost, low-power solutions to the OEM marketplace. For additional information, visit our website at: www.npe-inc.com.


"The low-power consumption, multiple interfaces, and high degree of system integration of GainSpan's system-on-chip enabled us to deliver an advanced hardware and software platform that allows engineers to easily integrate Wi-Fi capability into their embedded products."



Radio Thermostat Company of America

Radio Thermostat Company of America, a leading provider of Home Area Network (HAN), produces next generation products such as thermostats, in-home displays, and load shed devices specifically for energy management and home automation applications. RTCoA combines an expertise in wireless communications with the large scale manufacturing and distribution support of their partner company, Golden Power Manufacturing. RTCoA provides an extensive range of functionality in their products at an extremely competitive price point. For more information, visit www.radiothermostat.com


"We chose to use the highly optimized Wi-Fi SoC from Gainspan as it enables our thermostats to connect to the existing standards based Wi-Fi home network," said Dan Goodman, Chief Technical Officer of RTCoA and their partner company Golden Power Manufacturing."



RFM

RF Monolithics, Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a provider of solutions-driven, technology-enabled wireless connectivity for a broad range of wireless applications - from individual standard and custom components to modules for comprehensive industrial wireless sensor networks and machine-to-machine (M2M) technology. For more information on RFM, please visit the Company's website at www.RFM.com.


"GainSpan technology is enabling RFM to expand our already broad portfolio of low-power, wireless sensor networking products. We anticipate reaching deeper into the markets that we currently serve while expanding into untapped markets, both with entirely new low-power Wi-Fi sensing applications."