Multi-Tech Systems, a manufacturer of cellular modems for M2M communications, unveiled the availability of its 3G Cellular Development Platform(CDP), which is noted as an all-in-one hardware and OpenEmbedded Linux development environment, capable of providing more functionality and shortest path to achieving M2M communications.

“We've seen large universities, key medical organizations and system integrators use the first generation CDP to quickly achieve the desired solutions – It often takes only minutes to develop an application,” David Tincher, senior product manager at Multi-Tech (News - Alert) said in a press release.

 “These successes and ongoing customer feedback have given us the opportunity to increase the feature set and cellular connectivity to meet a greater variety of customer needs,” Tincher added.

Multi-Tech also clarified in its statement that companies who are looking to add M2M communications to their applications can now leverage the new CDP, as it is a complete, application-ready hardware solution that is fully certified and carrier approved. The platform, as stated can help companies to simplify the development and deployment processes in a very short time.

Multi-Tech’s CDP uses Linux-based open source software and comes with an ARM9 processor, 64 MG memory, 2G or 3G cellular modem and GPS, that offers expanded connectivity options to develop and deploy applications. Also, the new CDP is said to deliver greater application control with a 36-pin GPIO connection, using I2C, SPI, ADC (News - Alert) and other general input output pins.

Additionally, the new CDP now offers USB host, RS-232 and Ethernet, and is designed to easily integrate a variety of devices and sensors, including Web cameras, and scanners. It can also serve as a USB hub to connect many USB host devices.

A company statement revealed that its Platform allows a developer to take advantage of the variety of programming languages, libraries and applications that exist in the open source community.

The CDP developer kits including all the accessories and cables required to begin developing and testing, are currently made available for $299. Select models are also said to come with a complimentary 90-day Sprint (News - Alert) data plan.

During April 2010, at the CTIA in Las Vegas, TMC top executives had the opportunity to discuss with industry professionals on the happenings in wireless. TMC's 4GWE expert Carl Ford (News - Alert) discussed with Matthew Sharma, executive vice president of Multi-Tech, about the business of building data communication devices, the company's prime product. Click here to learn more on this TMC (News - Alert) report.