Successful Partnership throughout Wireless

“connectBlue stands for wireless know-how, great ideas and good quality radio boards.”
Dipl.-Ing. Juergen Weczerek, Phoenix Contact

Phoenix Contact is a worldwide leader in development and manufacturing of electrical connection, electronic interface and industrial automation technologies.

Phoenix Contact customers use wireless technologies in a number of different applications and industries. Examples of such applications include packaging machinery, warehouse transportation systems, crane control, water management applications as well as processes in the heavy steel industry.

Already back in 2003, Phoenix Contact found connectBlue in its quest to “offer our customers a more flexible and reliable alternative transmission technology to communicate with their mobile, moving and rotating automation systems,” explains Dipl.-Ing. Juergen Weczerek at Phoenix Contact. “We chose connectBlue since they have inno-vative Bluetooth solutions that fit very well for industrial automation solutions and they understand the requirements and the language of industrial automation.”

Wireless Custom Design

Today, Phoenix Contact uses connectBlue products and technology for transmission of control and safety data in factory automation worldwide. In fact, connectBlue has developed everything that pertains to Bluetooth technology solutions for Phoenix Contact. Further, connectBlue is a preferred partner for other wireless technologies. Among the products that the two companies co-develop include Bluetooth based wireless I/O-systems and Wireless LAN and Bluetooth Ethernet Port Adapters.

According to Weczerek “connectBlue is a reliable partner for industrial wireless solutions and they are very flexible in implementing special customer requests.” And to sum it up, “connectBlue stands for wireless know-how, great ideas and good quality radio boards.”

Key Benefits

• Reliable communication with moving machine parts
• More economical than electromechanical alternatives
• Higher availability in mobility applications
• Lower maintenance costs

connectBlue Products Used

Custom Design Solutions with the following product ranges:

• Wireless LAN Ethernet Port Adapters
• Bluetooth Ethernet Port Adapters
• ModBus I/O Software
• Bluetooth I/O
• Wireless LAN Serial Port Adapters
• Bluetooth Serial Port Adapters

About connectBlue

connectBlue™ is a leading provider of wireless solutions for demanding applications in segments industrial automation, medical, instrumentation, diagnostics, logistics / transportation, vehicles and point of sales. Based on Bluetooth technology, Wireless LAN (WLAN) and IEEE 802.15.4 / ZigBee, connectBlue provides ready-to-use products and modules as well as custom design solutions in both hardware and software. connectBlue has offices in Malmö (Sweden), Chicago (USA) and Pfaffenhofen/Munich (Germany). For more information, please visit www.connectblue.com. The connectBlue word mark and logo are owned by connectBlue AB.

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