Lantronix delivers smart connectivity to leading industrial weighing scales manufacturer

Lantronix, a specialist of intelligent edge and secure data management solutions for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), and Cypress have teamed to deliver smart wireless connectivity to the leading industrial weighing scales manufacturer.

“Together, Lantronix and Cypress are delivering cutting-edge technologies that support the leading industrial weighing scales manufacturer in the creation of smart wireless grocery scales,” said Jonathan Shipman, VP of Strategy for Lantronix. “Smart wireless scales enable easy grocery store reconfigurations as well as wireless transmission of information to point-of-sale terminals, speeding customer check-out.”

“Estimated at $5+ billion, the industrial weighing scales market is growing in response to increasing automation in the retail sector, with the grocery segment accounting for nearly 33 percent of sales,” said Andrew Hunter, Senior Director Marketing, IoT Compute and Wireless Business Unit at Cypress. “Our technologies have enabled the leading industrial weighing scales manufacturer to bring to market a smart wireless grocery scale solution that give stores more flexibility in serving their customers.”

Challenge: Deliver Wireless Connectivity Technology for Industrial Weighing Scales

Leading grocery chains are seeking the flexibility of wireless connectivity to enable on-demand store reconfigurations and wireless transmission of information from weighing scales directly to POS terminals. The manufacturer wanted a globally certified solution that would mitigate significant product validation and re-certification risks and costs in addition to implementing dependable, wireless connectivity and security.

Solution: Lantronix xPico 240 IoT Gateway Hosting Cypress’ Embedded Wireless System-on-a-Chip (SoC)

The manufacturer selected the Lantronix xPico 240 Embedded IoT Gateway to host Cypress’ CYW43907 Embedded Wireless system-on-a-chip (SoC), which features Arm Cortex-R4 Dual-Band (2.4/5 GHz) 802.11n Wi-Fi® MCU. Enabling rapid time to market, this module provides world-class dual-band Wi-Fi, antenna diversity, enterprise-level Wi-Fi security and industrial-grade wireless connectivity management.

Lantronix xPico 240 features include:

* Hosting the Cypress CYW43907, providing world-class wireless performance in challenging RF environments through an integrated Arm® Cortex®-R4 with 2MB of RAM combined with a high performance Dual-Band (2.4/5 GHz) 802.11n Wi-Fi radio. Pre-loaded firmware that includes secure wireless network connectivity options with InfiniShield® suite, such as the complete set of EAP authentication protocols
* Available Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables customization and development of unique features as required
* Compact footprint with global certifications, making integration into the product design fast and easy

Results: Quick Creation of a Market-Ready Wireless Industrial Weighing Scale Prototype

Utilizing the Lantronix xPico 240 Embedded IoT Gateway and Cypress’ CYW43907, the customer created a new industrial weighing scale design that eliminated the need for wired connectivity, giving stores the flexibility for reconfigurations on demand. It also wirelessly transmits information from weighing scales directly to the POS terminals, speeding up customer check-out.

Benefits of the module included enabling the customer to gain the following benefits:

* Quickly build a market-ready prototype
* Reduce total cost of development
* Get to production and market faster
* Deliver a comprehensive, globally certified solution to market