Chances are that most people think of RF transceivers as large devices that sit on a desk in a base station. While this might be accurate inasmuch as CB and amateur equipment goes, a group of technicians in Rolling Meadows, Illinois have designed a series of transceivers that are considerably smaller and can fit into almost any type of product enclosure.
Their new Sidekiq™ RF transceiver isn’t much taller than a few silicon wafers, which means that it can be incorporated into a sensor housing that gets mounted on the ceiling of a building. In fact, these are small enough to interface with eight bit microcontrollers and other primitive devices that might have otherwise proven challenging to match up with any other piece of equipment. On the other hand, some specialists are beginning to use them with highly sophisticated communications gear that’s designed to connect to multiple mesh networks.
These networks are often relatively informal and come about when a group of users decide to bring some of their local gear online for a period of time. Once they do this, they can initiate a poll to see if there are any transceivers currently on the air. When users locate one, they’re then free to send a connection request and may begin to pass packets back and forth between their router and the transceiver itself. This enables crafty technologists to configure their own TCP/IP systems that are then useful in a variety of commercial and industrial scenarios.
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