Telit Wireless (News - Alert) Solutions, a provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, announced that Telit AppZone is an embedded application space in Telit’s G30 GSM/GPRS module, for easy application development with standard C code. It eliminates the need for an external CPU, RAM (News - Alert) and ROM, reducing size and cost.

The Telit AppZone platform is open and it targets a wide range of different products and verticals, such as remote monitoring and control, security and surveillance, telemetry, location services, billing, or fleet management.To decide between an external micro controller or embedding application into a wireless module, the answer is the Telit AppZone, an environment that is developed as an integrated platform that runs in the Telit G30 module and provides an advantageous "all-in-one" solution. It allows saving time and money because the M2M module can perform all the key tasks normally associated with an external microprocessor.

In planning a new tracking application, an innovative healthcare device, a trend-setting Automatic Meter Reading component or any other m2m application, Telit AppZone could meet all the needs while minimizing effort and costs. The result is a faster time to market.

“The improvement in time-to-market with Telit AppZone is evident,” explains Dominikus Hierl, CMO at Telit Wireless Solutions. “We had an application developer who evaluated the G30 module with the Telit AppZone. In a conventional environment, the evaluation would have taken four to eight months. With Telit AppZone, the client managed to master the coding, to assemble and develop the hardware application and to complete the testing in only one month.”

Standard M2M solutions require an external CPU connected to the modem to control it. Telit AppZone shifts this capability into the module to reduce hardware cost and saving space on the PCB. The application development becomes easier as developers require one programming language, standard C. Normally, application development requires different languages for the modem and the microcontroller. Telit AppZone is an open platform providing standard interfaces (POSIX, BSD), for integration of applications from a different OS/ platform.

Telit provides tools for programming, debugging and for flashing the software into the module. The AppZone software platform comes with sample applications and a “skeleton” code that developers can use as a starting point for building their own applications.“Telit AppZone is a fine example for Telit’s successful integration of Motorola (News - Alert) M2M,” comments Hierl. “The project has been started by Motorola M2M and completed by our joint team. We can now offer our clients the widest portfolio of programming environments, allowing them to develop applications in Python or in Telit AppZone.”Telit’s G30 is a flexible module having two variants with same HW form factor, LGA or connectorized.
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Edited by Rich Steeves