Salt Lake City, UT — emWare, Inc. announced availability of its DeviceGate-E Embedded Gateway for the PowerPC platform. This latest addition to emWare's DeviceGate family of products is a very small, low-cost, and extremely flexible embedded gateway that offers OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) a production-level product for adding remote management capabilities to electronic devices.

The DeviceGate-E for PowerPC runs emWare's Linux-based embedded gateway software on the PowerPC-based Setrix S-3720 hardware platform. emWare's Linux distribution includes open source code and support for a wide range of peripheral hardware. The Setrix S-3720 single-board computer is an ideal solution for production-level deployment because of its small footprint (4.5 x 2.5 x 1 in.), low cost and flexible communications options.

emWare will showcase its new embedded gateway for the PowerPC at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco on March 12-16, 2002.

The DeviceGate-E for PowerPC extends the flexibility of emWare's recently announced DeviceGate-E Development Kit by offering another hardware platform with support for GSM, Ethernet, or serial client communications.

DeviceGate-E products provide persistent wide-area connectivity for an embedded device or subnet of devices deployed in continuous monitoring and real-time control applications. This persistent connection provides the immediate, interactive communication needed for remote device monitoring, diagnostics and service management, thereby helping companies reduce service calls and deliver more responsive customer support. These gateways connect to a local device or subnet through a serial port, and to a wide area or Internet gateway through a standard Ethernet port or modem.

DeviceGate-E for PowerPC allows users to monitor, control, service, and support embedded devices from remote locations using interfaces such as Web browsers, cell phones, PDAs or database applications. emWare's DeviceGate-E gateway solution is currently being used in industrial pumps and pump controllers to help maintain water quality in water treatment systems.

 
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