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Shamik Paul

Bangalore, Sept. 8 Power guzzling hand-held Wi-Fi enabled devices may soon be a relic of the past. US-based GainSpan Corp has developed a solution for such devices that can make batteries last up to 10 years.

The company has developed a system-on-a-chip (SoC), GS1010, which can make an AA 3.6 volt battery last for up to 10 years when there is 100 bytes of data transmitted from the device each minute.

Wi-Fi is a power hungry technology, and GS1010 can solve the problem, said Mr Pankaj Vyas, Vice-President, Software and Systems Director, GainSpan India.

He said the technology could be used in appliances such as temperature sensors, billing devices and cell phones. Security devices and industrial automation is also a big area, he added.

The focus of the technology is on doing smart power management within the chip. It is based on the company’s Smart Power Management Technology, which has a pending patent, said Mr Vyas.

GainSpan, a company developed with Intel Corp and later spun-out as an independent company, offers the GS1010 SoC, GainSpan Development Kit and the GainSpan Evaluation Kit.

Mr Vyas said the company does not build the final product that consumers would use. He said they give the hardware and the software source codes in the development kit, which enables product companies to build applications across verticals.

Wireless sensor network company Aginova Inc has built a temperature monitoring product to be used in hospitals using GainSpan’s technology, said Mr Vyas.

The company has not started marketing the technology in India, but is looking for channel partners who would add to the product development eco-system. Mr Vyas said the company has an Asia-specific sales division.

In India, talks are on with some IT companies, who are product developers for the end-customers, said Mr Vyas. Based on the technology a lot of new applications can be developed, which will enable Wi-Fi to be used more widely, he added.

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