Ultra Low Power Wi-Fi for Sensor and Embedded Connectivity
Corporate Overview www.GainSpan.com
Getting Connected with Wi-Fi
March 2009 1
Corporate Profile • Founded in September 2006 • Investors: – – – – – –
Intel Capital (Funded spin-off from Intel) New Venture Partners Opus Capital OVP Venture Partners Sigma Partners Camp Ventures
EXECUTIVE TEAM Vijay Parmar, President & CEO Lewis Adams, CTO Pankaj Vyas, VP, Software & Systems John Roeser, VP, Worldwide Sales Bernard Aboussouan, VP, Marketing Haike Dong VP, Operations
• Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Los Gatos, California • R&D office in Bangalore, India • Secured $20 million series B funding in Dec. 2007
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Corporate Profile (continued)
GainSpan is a semiconductor company providing the lowest power Wi-Fi solution available on the market today enabling battery powered or energy harvesting based sensor applications. • A highly integrated SoC solution that runs reliably for up to 10 years on a single AA battery • Embedded software stack including RTOS, IP stack, security 3
GainSpan Product Line
1. GS1010 Ultra-Low-Power Wireless System-on-a-Chip 2. GainSpan Embedded Software
3. GainSpan Management Software (GMS)
4. GS1010 Evaluation Kit
5. GS1010 Development Kit – “SDK” 4 4
GainSpan: GS1010 SOC & Embedded SW Highly-integrated Wi-Fi SoC – Dual processors, SRAM, Flash, PA in 10mm X 10mm Ultra low power consumption for years of battery life on a single AA Works with existing Wi-Fi AP infrastructure Supports TCP/IP/UDP protocol for direct internet connectivity Enables management, setup and configuration of device (SNMP) Delivers Enterprise-level security and reliability
Highly Integrated SoC Antenna
SPI SPI UART UART
Power Amplifier
Application Processor
WLAN Transceiver 802.11
ADC ADC II22C C PWM PWM
ARM7 CPU
RF Switch
Flash Flas
RTC/ RTC/ PWR Mgmt
Customer Application Software GS1010 API WLAN, System and I/O Services
44MHz XTAL Power Control
WLAN MAC ARM7 CPU
GPIO GPIO JTAG JTAG SRAM
Optional Ext Power Amp. PA/DAC
Developed by Customer Reference provided by GainSpan
802.11i Security
IP Network Stack
From GainSpan
1.8V Wake Up 32/131kHz XTAL Battery (3.6V – 1.2V)
RTOS I/O Drivers and Wi-Fi Firmware 5
We Bring Years of Battery Life Sample Application (reporting intervals)
100 Byte Packet Size
~10 years ~5 years
AA Li-Ion 3.6V Location (30 seconds)
Temperature Monitoring
Tank Level (1 hour)
Predictive Maintenance
(1 minute)
2,000 mAh Battery
(1 day)
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Efficient active & standby modes
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System level power management
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Small footprint, real-time OS
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Controlled clocking, wakeup
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Single die integration
Current Consumption
Smart power consumption for battery powered sensors Active Icc
< 5µA in standby Time 6
Typical Range Measurements
Office Environment
Outdoor Environment
~ 200 feet (70m)
~1000 feet (300m)
Range is similar to Laptops with Wi-Fi Note: Testing done using Cisco* AP1200 on Dev Board with internal PA @ ~9dbm – Receiver Sensitivity is over 90 dbm
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Target Market Segments
Cold Storage Monitoring
Building Automation
Asset/ People Tracking
Smart Energy Home 8
Smart Energy Home Electric Meter (50 million meters in U.S.)
Wi-Fi Access Point
Thermostat In-Home Energy Display
ERT to Wi-Fi
Smart Appliances Utility Back Office
Broadband Modem
Energy monitoring & control provided through broadband network building on large installed base of AMR meters.
Water Heater
• Reduced capital cost to utility • Potential revenues or government funding offsetting cost of broadband deployment • Reduced energy bill to homeowners
Building Automation Building sensing solutions for monitoring and control of temperature, air quality, lighting , access and more.
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Temperature Access control Motion sensors Security Lighting control Window shade
Asset/ People Tracking
Location based tracking of assets, people, etc. using Wi-Fi
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Cold Storage Monitoring Temperature monitoring of fridges in commercial & medical applications
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GainSpan’s EcoSystem
Customers Partners
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Why GainSpan GS1010? – Wi-Fi Benefits
Seamlessly Works with Largest Wireless LAN …Wi-Fi
GainSpan Wi-Fi
Other (ZigBee like)
Advanced Security WPA2 Low Power Works with existing infrastructure Quick & Easy Deployment IT Friendly Fast Transmission Speed Lower Total Cost of Ownership IP to the Sensor Advantage
No Low Power No – Requires new infrastructure More Difficult No – IT is Unfamiliar No – Limited <250Kbs No – Expensive Installation No – must use Wi-Fi Bridge 14
Summary
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Low power WiFi solution using mature, installed infrastructure Experienced management team and seasoned investors Significant customer and ecosystem traction Numerous Applications www.GainSpan.com 15