WAVENIS

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Ultra Low Power WSNs Hype or ripe?
DNAC WSN 2007 Paris, November 16, 2007 Christophe
DUGAS, Director of Marketing Communications
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Coronis today

• Coronis Systems
• Coronis HQ in Montpellier, France (creation in
  2000 in Montpellier)
• Coronis Inc. established in 2005 (Chicago, IL /
  USA)
• Coronis office in 2006 (Shanghai / China)
• Coronis Staff 53 people
• Wavenis ULP long range wireless platform,
  products and services
• 7M / 12M / 25M revenue 2007/2008/2009
• June 2007, Coronis becomes an Elster Group
  company
• Deployment
• Over 1,300,000 Wavenis enabled units deployed
  worldwide
• 500,000 Wavenis enabled units on order
• Networks of up to 100,000 end-points

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Company mission

• Coronis has consistently focused on 2 primary
  goals

1. Create a world class wireless platform with
ultra-low-power and long-range capabilities
2. Provide OEM products and solutions for system
integrators, manufacturers, and value-added
resellers
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Busines Model B-to-B
Coronis Systems
Limited to business launch new business
opportunities
Limited to Large businesses Custom design

• Indirect Sales Partners
• Resellers
• Design Support Centers

Direct Customers- Key accounts- Licensing
Package
Application-orientedSolution Providers
End Customers
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Coronis know-how

• Microelectronics
• Design
• Integration
• Protocol Stack
• Firmware
• Embedded application
• Industrialization
• Mass production capability
• Cost effective
• Network architect
• 15 years of real world experience
• Global solution supplier

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What we learned from the market

• ULP market is extremely fragmented due to a
  myriad of diverse applications with discrepancies
  in requirements (latency, amount of data, range,
  autonomy)
• 99 of the market is currently served by many
  proprietary solutions that serve small medium
  size business

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Served markets with ULP requirements
Long-range UHF RFID
Environment/Agr.
Metering
Home
Industry
Security alarms
Building
Chem/Nuc/Bio
Healthcare
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BroadbandHome Networking
Bundled services at home
Wireless PLC Phone Cable
WAN
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Requirements for hard-to-reachultra low-power
devices

• Low quantities of data
• Low radio traffic
• Long battery life
• High radio link budget
• Openness to the WAN

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Wavenis positioning in the wireless landscape
WAN Capabilities
Low Consumption Long Range
RF consumer
Cost Advantage
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Why Coronis started from scratch

• Find the best trade-off between
• Ultra low-power, short long range, WAN
  openness, low cost
• Analysis of existing standards no solution
• Bluetooth range too short
• ZigBee range too short, DSSS, and consumption
  too high
• DECT consumption too high
• WiFi consumption too high
• WiBree ULP but range too short (Body Area
  Network)
• Our conclusion
• Design a wireless connectivity platform that
  meets requirements
• Offer Bluetooth extension capabilities with ULP
  long range

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Why Coronis will not adopt 802.15.4

• Short range
• 20dB less sensitive than Wavenis (-93dBm vs
  -113dBm)
• Mesh algo even required for reasonable operating
  range
• 3 different types of devices
• RFD, FFD/PAN coordinator gt costly overall
  network
• No direct link between two RFD
• Mesh algo applied between FFD or PAN only
• Less efficient communications _at_ 2.4GHz
• 8dB and more loss at 2.4GHz vs sub-GHz
• Silicon at 2.4GHz is less power-efficient vs
  sub-GHz
• No rush to develop Wavenis 2.4GHz

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Wavenis technology positioning
PROTOCOL
RF

• State-of-the art wireless solutions spread
  spectrum
• Bluetooth (FHSS), ZigBee (DSSS), UWB (pulse)
• High reliability, strong resistance to
  interference, coexistence capability and low cost
• Mono-channel conservative and overdriven
• KNX-RF, Z-wave, io-homecontrol many others
• Easy to design and low cost, but very poor
  reliability
• No robustness against interferers and very poor
  coexistence capability

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Wavenis technology description
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Wavenis at a glance

• Handles OSI from Physical layer to Network layer
• HCI interface (Bluetooth interface compatible)
• Option uPnP and IP supported in Network layer

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Wavenis highlights

• Long battery life
• up to 15 years on primary battery (10µA average
  op current _at_ 1s duty cycle)
• Long range
• 200m indoor 1km LOS -113dBm / 14dBm (-3dBi
  antenna)
• Smart links
• 2-way communications
• Reliable transmissions
• FHSS, FEC, data interleaving 50kHz BW channel _at_
  20kbps, BCH (31,21)
• ISM Bands
• 433MHz China, 868MHz Europe, 915MHz US

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OEM Wavenis-enabled platforms Gen-I
Available now

• Wavenis-enabled platforms Gen-I core features
• 2-chip solution Wavenis transceiver external
  MCU
• MSP430, PIC16/17/18, ARM7
• Wavenis stack features
• FHSS, data interleaving, FEC
• AFC, ASC
• 433MHz, 868MHz (ETS300-220)
• 915MHz (FCC15.249 FCC 15.247)
• Point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, repeater,
• RSSI, Acknowledge Receipt
• Service Discovery Protocol
• Coroniss application-oriented features
• Battery Low detection
• Data Encryption (3-DES,

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M2M network topology in the field

• Flexible operating modes
• PPP, broadcast, repeater
• Star, tree mesh networks
• ULP wireless network features
• Optimum wireless traffic
• Self-organizing
• Self-healing
• Easy network maintenance

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Wavenis OEM wireless solutionsProduct portfolio
overview
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OEM Wavenis-enabled platforms Gen-I
Available now

• Hardware platforms
• Waveflow-sense-therm-log OEM sensor platforms
• Wavecard OEM modem
• Wavefront OEM front-end
• Wavenis Licensing Package
• Companion Tools
• Wavenis Technology Starter Kit
• Wavenis PDK for flashing appli stack on Hardware
  platforms
• Optional Services
• Consulting for optimized Wavenis network
  operation
• Antenna Design Services
• Wavenis Industrialization Program

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OEM Wavenis-enabled platforms Gen-II
Next generation

• Wavenis Open Standard Alliance
• Next generation must comply to Wavenis-OSA
  roadmap
• Wavenis-enabled platforms Gen-II core features
• One-chip Wavenis SOC (2008)
• Backward compatible with Gen-I core features
• Self-Routing algorithm
• Self-Healing algorithm
• Network Pseudo-Synchronization
• More application-oriented features
• Drivers display,
• Over-The-Air Programming

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OEM Wavenis-enabled platforms Gen-II
Next generation

• Hardware platforms
• Gen II - Waveflow-sense-therm-log platforms
• Gen II - Wavecard OEM modem
• Gen II - Wavenis Licensing Package
• Companion Tools
• Gen II - Wavenis Technology Starter Kit
• Gen II - Wavenis PDK (for beta customers)
• Optional Services
• Consulting for optimized Wavenis network
  operation
• Antenna Design Services
• Gen II - Wavenis Industrialization Program

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RD participation in advanced projects

• European Community Projects
• SWANS (MEDEA) dual mode Wavenis/Bluetooth
  platform
• µSWN (IST FP6) optimised Wireless Sensor Network
  (WSN) platform
• French National Projects
• ARESA (ANR) routing algorithm optimisation (avec
  France Telecom RD)
• Wavelock (Eureka) battery-powered door locks
  with centralised wireless control
• (Euripides) Wavenis fall detection sensor
  (for the elderly) integrated in a wristwatch.

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Flexible WSN monitoring solutions
Fixed network monitoring (M2M)Mobile monitoring
(Walk-by)Both fixed network mobile monitoring
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M2MA global value chain for remote monitoring
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Coronis Systems Start-up to industry leader
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The 1 reason why Wavenis is being deployed
real-world performanceOver 1,300,000 end
points500,000 now on order
Momentum in the marketplace
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Flexible time-to-market OEM solutions
Integrators choose the OEM platform that meets
their development and commercial needs
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Wavenis OEM Integrators
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Wavenis OEM Integrators (Contd)
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Wavenis OEM Integrators (Contd)
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Wavenis-based metering products

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Wavenis-enabled products

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Wavenis-enabled devices for RFID
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Hard-to-reach places with Waveflow
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Network infrastructure
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Smart GPRS/Wavenis gateway
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WSN for monitoring motors
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WSN for monitoring temperature
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Wavenis ULP networkself-routing self-healing
algorithm How it works
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Devices before network configuration
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Network after configuration
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Basic Rules

• A network is a virtual hierarchical network.
• A new device initiates the connection to become
  member of the existing network.
• The Quality of Service (QoS) of a device consists
  of a combination of RSSI, the remaining battery
  energy, the number of routed devices trough.
• Initial conditions can also depend on the
  application the network topology.

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Virtual hierarchy network topology

• level 0 Network root access point
• level 1 Device directly routed to a level 0
  device
• level 2 Device directly routed to a level 1
  device
• level 3 Device directly routed to a level 2
  device
• level 4 Device directly routed to a level 3
  device
• level -1 New device (not installed yet)
• Note 1 no PAN coordinator, all devices can talk
  each other
• Note 2 Each device embeds the repeater function
  in native
• Note 3 Each device only stores its own route to
  the root
• Note 4 Root stores all routes to reach node in
  P2P connect

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Wavenis routing algorithm principle

• Im a new device (level -1) and Im looking for
  this type of device (level 0, 1, 2, 3) - to be
  attached to and with such a QoS.
• Only this type of devices can answer but will
  answer only this type devices with equal or
  better required such QoS. If no feedback, the
  new device restart the process with new initial
  conditions (increased level /or degraded QoS).
• Once pairing is done, route is both stored in the
  root and in the new device only.

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Device A benefits from the best offered QoS

• Broadcast frames with specific request avoid
  explosion of possible received messages
• Strong power savings contributor in highly
  dense ULP wireless networks with high-sensitive
  receivers

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Self-Healing of ULP mesh network

• Regularly test of QoS
• Period is application dependent (once a day,
  week, month)
• If QoS is lower than required, the device
  restarts the discovery protocol based on initial
  conditions route history.

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Wavenis standardization strategy
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Wavenis standardization strategy

• Leverage deployment
• Provide Bluetooth extension capabilities
• Wavenis Open Standard Alliance

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Wavenis Open Standard Alliance

• Following requests by customers, prospects, and
  major RD labs
• To increase Wavenis exposure vs. competition
• Accelerate Wavenis standardization process
• Connections with complementary organizations(IEEE
  , Bluetooth, others)
• Kick-off meeting September 14, 2007

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Some of our customers
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Thank You QA info_at_coronis.com