Adding more flexibility to the line of products supporting the ZigBee and 802.15.4 standards, MaxStream has released stand-alone XBee-PRO radios that allow for quick connections to both RS-232 and USB-enabled devices. The stand-alone XBee-PRO radio is completely compatible with networks operating on XBee and XBee-PRO technology and includes a durable aluminum housing, 2.1 dBi dipole antenna and the choice of an RS-232 or USB connection.

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“The recent release of our ZigBee-ready modules saw a huge customer response, and now we are making the XBee product line easier than ever for OEMs and integrators to embrace this emerging wireless technology and incorporate it into an existing design,” said Nick Mecham, MaxStream’s vice president of business development. “The transparent communication capabilities of the XBee stand-alone radios will be ideal for a wide variety of applications that simply need to connect a computer or other device with a common serial [RS-232 or USB] interface to the wireless network.”

The 2.4 GHz XBee-PRO stand-alone radio features the 100 mW (EIRP) XBee-PRO RF module, which is capable of transmitting up to 0.9 miles (1.4 km) in line-of-sight conditions. Communicating at up to 250 kbps, the XBee-PRO is ZigBee-ready and will be upgradeable to the latest ZigBee-compliant networking protocol as it becomes available, said the manufacturer.