WhizNets, a provider of embedded wireless solutions, announced the launch of Serial to Wi-Fi Bridge, an enhancement to WhizNets wireless portfolio.

Leveraging the Serial to Wi-Fi Bridge, customers can connect systems running M2M applications to 802.11b/g/n wireless LANs and secure data from network attacks.

The embedded solution assists OEMs/ODMs in reducing time to market, while ensuring performance efficient solutions for new and existing designs. The WhizNets ready-to-go Wi-Fi solutions are available for Linux, Android (News - Alert), RTOS and SuperLoop over a host of processors & interfaces – SPI, SDIO.

“Our focus is to continuously evolve innovative wireless solutions for the M2M market,” said Atul Garg, CEO, WhizNets, in a statement. “Serial-to-Wi-Fi solution is a low cost, low footprint, small form factor Wi-Fi enabled design for OEMs & ODMs to extend their products' capabilities and market reach.”

“Our highly integrated wireless solutions help manufacturers and integrators fast forward their development cycle, reducing time to market and cost,” Garg added.

The Serial-to-Wi-Fi Bridge enables developers/integrators to create applications including industrial instrumentation and networking, home and building automation, remote metering security system, attendance systems, data collection, ticketing machine, vending/gaming machine, point-of-sale terminals, credit card and check verification systems, mobile Internet devices, LBS tracking systems, medical systems and many more.

The simple to use AT Command interface abstracts the Wi-Fi protocol as well as offloads its implementation from the host processor. The solution includes a small footprint TCP/IP stack to provide reliable data transmission, company officials said.

Recently, WhizNets announced the expansion of its wireless development platform portfolio to include pre integrated solutions for Samsung (News - Alert) Mini2440, NXP mbed, TI Zoom2 and TI OMAP Beagle board.