LPRS, the industrial wireless communications specialist, is offering a 434MHz radio module from Circuit Design as an alternative to ZigBee or Bluetooth standard-based radio systems with reduced dimensions of 50x30x9mm.

The MU-2-R offers 128 RF channels and data speeds up to 4.8kbit/s with a transmission range from 500 to 700m.

Standard features include an RF test command for evaluating radio environmental conditions at installation site, which allows measurement of received signal strength and floor-noise and packet test measurement of RF communication quality. Transmission power may be user selected between 1mW to 10mW to avoid interference with other RF networks.

The radio module also features enhanced error correction by using the Reed-Solomon code has which offers strong data recovery for errors caused by burst noise and can improve the receiver sensitivity by more than 5dB.

The operating temperature range is -20 to +65 deg C.

See http://www.lprs.co.uk

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