Woodhead Industries Signs Agreement to Explore Development of Mobile Industrial Gateway Devices.Business Editors DEERFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2003 Woodhead Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: WDHD WDHD World Digestive Health Day ) today announced that it had signed a license agreement with Nimble nim·ble adj. nim·bler, nim·blest 1. Quick, light, or agile in movement or action; deft: nimble fingers. See Synonyms at dexterous. 2. Microsystems, Inc. that will enable Woodhead to investigate the market opportunities for mobile industrial gateway devices. This agreement gives Woodhead the rights to an advanced single board computer engine that could have potential as the platform for industrial or harsh commercial handheld devices used to gather remote information or to perform diagnostic functions. Philippe Lemaitre, Woodhead Industries' President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are pleased to have obtained the rights to this unique engine for potential development of products for rugged handheld applications. We see this as an opportunity to target harsh commercial communications and information devices, industrial human machine interface tablets and light industrial data collection and diagnostic devices. If successful in a test market, we will make this a global product for sale through our existing channels and develop further application for the technology." "We are pleased to join forces with Woodhead to penetrate the market of light industrial mobile communication and computing devices," says Dr. Jeng-Feng Lee, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nimble Microsystems. "These devices connect to the network through wireline or wireless channels, such as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. and Wi-Fi, and bridge data gathered by sensors in remote sites to servers. With the combination of Woodhead's connectivity solutions and global reach to industrial consumers, and Nimble's high-performance embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. engines, we can better equip customers with the right connectivity tools they need to run their operations cost-effectively." About Woodhead Industries, Inc. Woodhead Industries, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets electronic and industrial communications products, primarily serving the global automation and control market with connectivity solutions and specialty electrical products. Through its connectivity group, Woodhead provides the industrial automation industry with a single, worldwide source for industrial communications and connectivity solutions. Its product lines, comprised of six recognized industry-leading brands: SST SST: see airplane. (TM), Brad Harrison(R), mPm(TM), RJ Lnxx(R), applicom(R) and NetAlert(R) make Woodhead the premier supplier of application-specific connectivity solutions. For further information on Woodhead Industries contact: Robert Fisher, Vice President, Finance and CFO See Chief Financial Officer. , (847) 317-2400, e-mail: rfisher@woodhead.com, or http://www.woodhead.com. About Nimble Microsystems, Inc. Nimble Microsystems, Inc. specializes in embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. and focuses on high performance, low power consumption, small form factor embedded engines, based on Reduced Instruction Set Computing Noun 1. reduced instruction set computing - (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform reduced instruction set computer, RISC (RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. ) processor technology. These engines deliver cost effective connectivity solutions for the Post PC era wireline and wireless communication devices. For further information on Nimble Microsystems, visit: http://www.nimblemicro.com. Nimble's address: 300 Commercial St. Suite 27, Malden, MA.; phone: 781-321-8910. |
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