Embedded wireless engineering firm ClearConnex, in an effort to simplify and future proof machine-to-machine (M2M) application development, has announced that it is in the last phase of testing an Application Programmer Interface (API).

With ClearLink, users can develop applications using any M2M module and can support an entire module family, technology or generation. It is not necessary to have any pre-knowledge of technology. The API will also protect the application from any changes that may occur in the future.

“With cellular networks changing so fast, you don't want to rewrite applications from scratch every time a wireless module goes end of life or the carriers change to the next generation of technology,” Ryan Rangel, ClearConnex CTO, said. “With ClearLink, your application can support any wireless technology generation.”

By choosing ClearLink as the module API, developers are at an advantage as they can develop programs using any wireless module with just a single universal interface. In addition, migrating from one technology to another with ClearLink applications involves hardly any reworking.

As ClearLink uses ClearOS all applications developed are OS and processor agnostic. The company said that the wireless device platform ClearComm would be built on building blocks like ClearLink and ClearOS by the end of 2011.

In related news, Wyless (News - Alert) Group, the leading global M2M managed services provider, partnered with ClearConnex to provide Wyless customers with device integration services and ClearConnex customers with the world’s most advanced M2M Platform.