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Panasonic Industrial will be presenting an extended range of radio modules at the electronica exhibition. These will include solutions for the Bluetooth™ standard as well as for the ZigBee™ system and chirp technology.

For the increasingly popular Bluetooth™ standard, Panasonic Industrial will be providing a wide range of modules both in a Class 1 version (range up to 100 metres) and in Class 2 (range up to 30 metres). The modules are optionally available with or without antenna and all comply with the current Bluetooth™ standard 1.2. All Panasonic Bluetooth™ modules on show at the exhibition are already listed or will shortly be so. This obviates the need for expensive Bluetooth™ qualification on the part of the end customer. Of particular benefit is the fact that Panasonic can even take the customer's special design requirements into account, as the modules are both developed and manufactured in Lüneburg in Lower Saxony.

Panasonic will also be presenting its absolutely new ZigBee™ ready module. Engineering samples for customers' development work are already available. As soon as the standard has been adopted, Panasonic will apply for official approval to enable certified ZigBee™ modules to be quoted including software stack.

Also new is a radio module based on the chirp technology from Nanotron Technologies. This uses the worldwide unlicensed 2.4GHz ISM band and guarantees reliable long-range communication, even under extremely difficult environmental conditions. A further advantage is the very low power consumption with a long range. Engineering samples are also available for this radio module.

Panasonic Industrial Europe is responsible for the Europe-wide sale of production equipment and parts such as electronic components and appliances, semi-conductors and production systems to customers in the electronics industry and the audio-visual, household appliances and telecommunications, computer and automotive electronics markets. PIE is also responsible for the sale of consumer batteries through Battery Sales Europe NV in Brussels.

Hamburg-based Panasonic Industrial Europe GmbH employs 300 people and has a turnover of 600 million euros. Managing Director is Tadashi Mochizuki. PIE has a branch in the UK (London) and sales offices in Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Vienna, Munich, Düsseldorf, a telecommunications service office in Copenhagen and a training centre of factory automation in Vienna.

The Panasonic Automotive Europe GmbH based in Munich and with sales offices in Hamburg, Stutt-gart, London, Paris and a research and development department in Neumünster (Germany), is responsible for the sales and marketing of automobile electronics as well as for research and development tasks in this division since April 1st, 2004.