On-Ramp Wireless announced the Ultra-Link Processing (ULP) Wireless Communication System, a wireless networking technology for wide area, machine-to-machine applications. Leveraging On-Ramp’s ULP technology, this is the first system purpose-built to efficiently connect billions of hard-to-reach meters, sensors and tracking devices in metro scale and other challenging environments.
Operating in the un-licensed 2.4 GHz spectrum, ULP provides a 600x network coverage advantage and 25x capacity efficiency advantage over competing free spectrum protocols enabling broad adoption of wireless monitoring and control applications from large enterprise and industrial campus deployments to metro-scale networks by significantly lowering overall network cost.
The field proven system can be used for metro-scale monitoring in smart grid, industrial condition monitoring, location tracking and security sensing applications. On-Ramp’s system is currently engaged with major application partners in several metro and industrial area field trials. The ULP system represents a breakthrough in signal processing, as it is the first to be able to demodulate signals below the noise floor while also effectively maintaining network capacity and low system cost. The System is comprised of small wireless modules, the ULP eNode, which has open and standard interfaces, and can be easily integrated with a wide range of vendor applications. The eNodes communicate with the ULP Access Point, which is used to transmit and receive data to and from potentially thousands of remote modules.
