"Meindert Sprang" wrote in message ...
"Yme Bosma" wrote in message
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"Meindert Sprang" wrote in message
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Hi all,
Our Bluetooth enabled multiplexers have finally seen the light.
See www.shipmodul.com for more details.

Meindert

Definitely an interesting product, wrote some thoughts about it on my
weblog, www.panbo.com/yae. How do you see Zigbee (www.zigbee.org) and
NMEA 2000 fitting into this? Will they obsolete your products?

I don't think so. Not for the near future. Like I mentioned in my other
post, NMEA2000 is quite costly. It is just too darn simple to put a simple
serial interface on a device.

As for ZigBee, I'll have to investigate that one. It is of course not such a
widespread standard as Bluetooth, but it has it merits. But I'll always have
my doubt about equipping every sensor with a wireless link. As long as you
have to power something with a wire, you can also transport data over that
wire, eliminating the need for wireless.

Regards,
Meindert

Yes, I understand that last point, but then again, Zigbee was
developed with exactly that requirement in mind. It's extremely
efficient with power so that it can be used for a long time running on
a battery, or on a few solar cells. This would probably not be
feasible with Bluetooth. Although they are now developing a
low-powered version of Bluetooth to deal with this problem...

Yme
http://www.panbo.com/yae/