ELUTIONS launches new WLC – Wireless Logic Controller

New All-in-One M2M Intelligent Device Enables Wireless Communication, Monitoring and Control for Enterprise Automation, Featuring Remote Over-The-Air Soft Logic User Programmability

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ELUTIONS, the premier provider of wireless enterprise automation solutions, today announced the worldwide launch of its new WLC™ at the SPS/IPC/Drives automation show in Nuremberg, Germany. The Wireless Logic Controller is an all-in-one intelligent device for Information & Control. It simplifies the integration and development of automation systems and extends wide-area enterprise control with leading-edge technology and end-to-end solutions for energy efficiency, asset performance, and process control.

The WLC combines user programmability using WizPLC™ CoDeSys®, a cellular data modem, security protocols and data encryption, a variety of on-board connectivity and optional I/O extensions, data logging, backup battery system, all in an extendable modular design.

The world’s first all-in-one wireless logic controller with remote over-the-air configuration

The WLC differs from other PLCs and RTUs with a clearly superior set of innovative, ground-breaking features. It offers wireless backhaul of information to the enterprise system (on GSM/GPRS, CDMA or iDEN), an integrated Web server for remote access and configuration, and an embedded softlogic engine with CoDeSys software for local control using the six normalized IEC 61131-3 languages. The WLC not only offers local programming with laptop and USB connection, but also features a unique over-the-air function for remote configuration and simulation.

The WLC is an enabling component of the company’s integrated solution offerings, with embedded features for energy control with AEM®, for management of fixed and mobile equipment with ALERT®, and for facility management with Wizcon® Wireless™.

Wizcon Wireless: WLC and Wizcon Supervisor bundle

The WLC shares the same Development Studio with Wizcon, which not only greatly simplifies the development of process control applications, but also allows full integration of the complete local control and remote web-enabled supervision, with a complete end-to-end solution from one single supplier. This greatly reduces the risk of programming errors and drastically cuts development time.

The WLC extends Wizcon’s supervisory capabilities with wireless communication, and a PLC that is programmable, remotely, using WizPLC CoDeSys, one of the many tools in the Wizcon Supervisor software suite.

There are several additional customer benefits for Wizcon users:

Native integration with Wizcon
One supplier (end-to-end solution) with worldwide market presence (distributors)
Over-the-air configuration and data transfer
Program upload/download function
Enables remote asset management
Enables high-availability applications with secure redundancy between local and supervisory control.
Availability

The WLC will be available in various models starting in December 2006 from ELUTIONS and authorized distributors. ELUTIONS is also looking for additional distributors worldwide. Please contact ELUTIONS at info@elutions.com or call +33 (0)4 72 47 98 98 for additional information.

A press conference was held at the SPS/IPC/Drives 2006 trade fair on Thursday, 30 November, at 10:00 in the building CCN Ost, Level 2, room Istanbul to unveil the WLC and the new version Wizcon® Supervisor™ 9.3 (see separate press release dated today).

About ELUTIONS

ELUTIONS Inc. is the premier provider of wireless enterprise automation solutions, which help companies dramatically improve their asset performance, energy usage, and workforce productivity. ELUTIONS is headquartered in Tampa, Florida, and Lyon, France, for Europe and is a provider of real-time wide area solutions used by retail, commercial, government, and industrial companies worldwide. Further information is available at www.elutions.com