C-guys, Inc., a developer of secure digital (SD) and SDIO solutions for home, SOHO and SMB applications, has unwrapped an unprecedented Zigbee SDIO card to control applications in home, industrial and healthcare environments. The company will demonstrate its new card at CeBit to show how a ZigBee device can remotely control systems such as home lighting or security systems. The C-guys Zigbee SDIO technology can also work as a health tracking system or a fault detection network.

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"C-guys' new Zigbee SDIO card is opening a new door for consumer electronics devices such as PDAs and smart phones. We are truly excited to offer our customers an SDIO solution that competes with USB or SPI (serial peripheral interface) interfaces," stated Keith Hirayama, CEO of C-guys.

C-guys' new ZigBee SDIO card includes the company's CG-100 SDIO application interface controller, which is designed to convert an application signal to an SD signal (or vice versa). The ZigBee card boasts of signal ranges of up to 10 m in the 2.4 GHz band and data rates of up to 200 kbps. The card features peer-to-peer communications mode and supports direct application to PDAs or any SD supported hand-held.

Backed by a limited lifetime warranty, the SDIO Zigbee card will be available later this month for under $100.