The demand for wireless connectivity solutions are clearly increasing every day. Bluegiga, a provider of short-range wireless connectivity solutions, is leveraging its long experience in wireless connectivity by expanding its product portfolio with the launch of its new Wireless System-on-Module – Bluegiga APx4.

The new APx4 is a low power wireless System-on-Module with integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, ARM (News - Alert) and Linux, offering an ideal development platform for wireless gateways. It is noted to be an ideal product for applications requiring wireless or wired connectivity technologies and the processing power of the ARM9 processor, such as health and fitness gateways, building and home automation gateways, M2M, point-of-sale and industrial connectivity.

"Integrating Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Smart Ready technologies into a single platform is far from a trivial challenge – especially when these technologies need to seamlessly coexist. This is exactly what the APx4 accomplishes in addition to providing an ARM9 based Linux platform that allows our customers to quickly and simply add their own applications into it," Mikko Savolainen, vice president of Product Management at Bluegiga, said in a statement.

The Bluegiga APx4 includes the latest wireless connectivity standards: 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0. Based on Freescale's (News - Alert) i.MX28 processor family, the APx4 runs an embedded Linux operating system based on the Yocto Project.

In addition to integrating the 454MHz ARM9 processor, the wireless connectivity technologies and Linux operating system, the APx4 also includes several built-in applications, such as the 802.11 and Bluetooth 4.0 stacks, Continua v.1.5 compliant IEEE (News - Alert) manager and many more.

This combination provides an ideal platform for designing multi-radio wireless gateways, that enables fast time-to-market and minimum R&D risks.

The Bluegiga APx4 software can be easily extended or tailored customizing the Linux operating system with applications. The motherboards for the APx4 can be easily extended to include almost anything from 3G modems, to Ethernet and audio interfaces to touchscreen displays.

Tom Nordman, vice president of Sales and Marketing at Bluegiga, emphasized that the new APx4 wireless System-on-Module is directly designed to address the growing connectivity needs and provide a platform for rapid development of new innovative wireless gateways.

In related news, Bluegiga announced the availability of its new Bluetooth Smart Ready HCI module, BT111.

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