Polysense Announces Image and Video Capture Sensor for its WxS IoT End node and iEdge Computing Platform

The industry's first image and video capability enables a new array of IoT applications for multiple vertical segments such as asset protection, perimeter security, office occupancy and senior care

Polysense Technologies Inc., (Polysense) an innovation leader in LPWAN IoT solutions for fiber and wireless sensing, today announced the commercial availability of image and video capturing on its industry leading LoRa®-based WxS end node and iEdge computing platform with patented image and video analysis.

The Polysense WxS 8800 universal sensor node series incorporates Semtech's SMTC LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology (LoRa Technology) and LoRaWAN™ open standard from the LoRa Alliance™ to support long ranges of 3km to 5km in NLOS (None Line of Sight) urban environments, and over 15km reach in LOS (Line of Sight) open environments. With nine integrated internal sensors and connectivity for an external analog and digital sensor, the WxS 8800 enables a wide range of IoT applications.

"We have multiple customers requesting the image and video capturing capability for our widely used WxS IoT end node product line," said Alex Wu, President of Polysense. "We listened and responded with an image and video sensor that is low power, offers multiple modes of resolution, and includes night vision capturing and even image/video analysis. For example, an enterprise can install PIR in conference rooms/labs to detect the presence of a person, and then take a picture."

"Polysense's technology fills a gap in the current IoT ecosystem and image and video capturing solutions such as this, greatly expand LPWAN use cases in a variety of verticals including asset management and security in smart cities, buildings and homes," said Vivek Mohan, Director of IoT, Wireless and Sensing Products Group at Semtech. "Semtech's LoRa Technology has become the technology of choice for building low power and long range IoT applications, and Polysense should play an important role in making our world a smarter planet."

"We have been using WxS for several use cases and look forward to the new exciting enhancements being added," said Nick Sacke, head of IoT at Comms365, a leading IoT service provider based in the UK. "The unique combination of low power, night vision, and smart sensor triggering can be valuable for many end user IoT applications."

Now with the new image and video capture capabilities on WxS 8800, Polysense is the only vendor that provides smart triggered capturing of event detections for applications such as asset protection, perimeter security, and senior care - where image and video are essential.

Key Features

• Ultra-low power for battery operation
• Flexible choice of image and video resolutions from 176*120 to 640*480
• Night vision mode
• 8MB of local storage, capable of storing up to 60 seconds of video segment or multiple picture images
• Standard Image formats: H264/MJPEG/JPEG
• Image and video analysis capability
• Efficient local store and forwarding algorithm with frame retransmission mechanism
• User controllable video capture via remote command or smart triggering from local sensor

Availability

Polysense's WxS 8800 universal sensor node series is in production and immediately available for ordering. WxS 8800 is FCC/IC certified, and iEdge is a trade mark of Polysense

Contact Polysense for ordering and pricing: kyang@polysense.net

About Semtech LoRa® Devices and Wireless RF Technology

Semtech's LoRa Technology is a widely adopted low-power, long-range solution for IoT that gives telecom companies, IoT application makers, and system integrators the feature set necessary to deploy low-cost, interoperable IoT networks, gateways, sensors, module products, and IoT services worldwide. IoT networks based on the LoRaWAN™ specification have been deployed in over 100 countries. To learn more about how LoRa enables IoT, visit Semtech's LoRa/IoT site and join the LoRa Community to access free training as well as an online industry catalog showcasing next-generation products.

About Semtech

Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for high-end consumer, enterprise computing, communications, and industrial equipment. Products are designed to benefit the engineering community as well as the global community. The Company is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have on the environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste through material and manufacturing control, use of green technology and designing for resource reduction. Publicly traded since 1967, Semtech is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol SMTC. For more information, visit www.semtech.com.

About Polysense

Located in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Beijing, Luo Yang, and Shanghai, China, Polysense develops IoT products and solutions for smart enterprise, city, and home, including distributed fiber sensing, LPWAN LoRa, NB-IoT/LTE CAT M and Wi-Fi/BLE based wireless IoT sensors and Cloud-based data management and analytics platform iView, and edge computing platform iEdge.

Semtech, the Semtech logo and LoRa are registered trademarks or service marks, and LoRaWAN and the LoRa Alliance are trademarks or service marks, of Semtech Corporation or its affiliates.

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