Announcing new product

Raveon Technologies announces a new VHF MURS band data radio modem. The RV-M7-VM is FCC certified for use in the unlicensed MURS radio band. It features 1/2 to 2 watts of RF power output, support for both wide and narrow-band channels.
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News items

RavTrack PC 3.4 adds GPSgate Web Server support.

With release 3.4 of Raveon's GPS tracking software program RavTrack PC, you may use Franson's GPSgate server software to build an dhost your own GPS tracking server. 3.4 also improves the interaction with USB-Serial converters, making their use more reliable. For more information about version 3.4, <click here>

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Radio Manager 3.1 released.

Radio Manager is Raveon's Windows software application for configuring its wireless data products and AVL transponders. It has been updated with a few bug fixes, and support for the new VHF radios. It may be downloaded here.

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The Midwest SECURITY and POLICE Expo

DIN clips Raveon will be exhibiting its RavTrack automatic vehicle location technology at the Midwest SECUTRITY and POLIC Expo in Chicago, IL on August 10-11. If you would like a complementary pass to the show, please contact us at sales@raveontech.com. Our RavTrack AVL system is ideal for public safety vehicle and personnel tracking. RavTrack improves productivity, officer safety, and community's security. It speeds dispatching, and automatically identifies where resources are needed. It allows you to see where all vehicles are right now in truly real-time, not a few minutes ago. Updates can be as often as every few seconds.

For the first responders, the RavTrack's exclusive capability of an in-vehicle display of all other vehicle's location will reduce response time, clarify real-time the situations, and provide valuable status information to backup and support personnel. It will be demonstrated live at the MSPE show. For more information about RavTrack's police and security features, <click here>.

More information about the MSPE show may be found at: http://www.mspce.com/

Raveon Technologies Teams with SAIC to pursue DOD applications

Raveon Technologies Corporation has entered into a Teaming Agreement with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to support SAIC’s Live Training Products and Systems Division. SAIC pursues United States Department Of Defense (DOD) solicitations for data radios for use in DOD test and training applications. Raveon will support SAIC in order to develop an optimal approach to responding to certain DOD Solicitations using Raveon’s data radio and GPS tracking technology.

USB Option for M7 Series Radios

We now offer a USB I/O option for all of our M7 series radio modems. The M7-USB option replaces the standard DB9 RS232 serial connector with a USB 2.0 Mini-B connector.

Works with USB 1.1 & 2.0 Host and Hub ports
Installs as a standard Windows COM port
Flow control: RTS/CTS , DSR/DTR, X-ON/X-OFF, None
RS-232 data signals: TxD, RxD, RTS, CTS, DSR, DTR, DCD, GND
Supports Windows Server 2008, 2003, Vista, XP 2000, Linux, Mac OS X
An internal FTDI FT232R provides the USB-to-Serial conversion.
USB connector provides the interface for connection to a USB Host or Hub port.
Operating system device drivers are required in order to operate with the FT232R to provide the Virtual COM Port serial functionality.
Microsoft Windows® WHQL-certified, Mac OS X, Linux and Windows CE device drivers

Why are Raveon's Products Less Expensive than others?

Because Raveon is a low-price leader in the UHF/VHF wireless modem market, we are asked this question a lot. It is a fair question because in some instances, low-price can mean something is being sacrificed. But not with our products. For many reasons, Raveon is able to produce and offer our wireless modems at exceptional prices. These reasons are often unique to Raveon Technologies, and not only reduce cost, but increase product reliability. None of these reasons sacrifice quality or reliability. Our radio products are economical because:

Single board design.We combine all of the RF circuits and the modem on a single 6-layer printed circuit board.
Our own design. We do not purchase third-party RF modules, software libraries, or modem boards. We design and build 100% of our product.
ARM processor. Most of Raveon's wireless products use a powerful ARM microprocessor. It is able to do the DSP and microcontroller functions, thus eliminating many additional components in a traditional less-integrated approach.
Exceptional Vendor Support. We have been working with some of our key vendors for over 15 years. We receive exceptional support, quality, and delivery from our business partners.
High-volume production. Our product is very versatile, and can be re-configured for many different applications. This allows us to produce the same product in higher-volumes.
Privatly Held Company. Raveon is a privately held Corporation. Public companies and divisions of large corporations have an additional cost burden we simply do not have.
Low Failure Rate. Our radios are very reliable, so our yields are high, failures rates low, warranty costs low, and repairs are infrequent. Our calculated and experienced MTBF of the M7 radio modem is over 250,000 hours.

USB Option for the Atlas PL Personal Locator

We now also offer a USB I/O option for our Atlas PL personal locator. The 4C854-1-6 USB-to-serial cable allows you to connect an Atlas PL to a PC with a standard USB port. The Atlas PL still will have its standard RS232 serial port, and the 4C854-1-6 cable will convert between the USB interface and the Atlas PL's serial port.

Works with USB 1.1 & 2.0 Host and Hub ports
Installs as a standard Windows COM port
Flow control: RTS/CTS , DSR/DTR, X-ON/X-OFF, None
RS-232 data signals: TxD, RxD, RTS, CTS, DSR, DTR, DCD, GND
Supports Windows Server 2008, 2003, Vista, XP 2000, Linux, Mac OS X
An internal FTDI FT232R provides the USB-to-Serial conversion.

Tech Blog Articles

To help answer our customer's questions, we have installed Technical Web Blogs on our web sites. We will post answers to your technical questions on these Blogs; giving you, your co-workers, and all of our customers, access to technical information about our products. These Tech Blogs are also indexed, so you can type a search phrase into the search box on our site, and look for Tech Blog postings that may be of interest to you.

For our data radio products, the tech blog is at: http://www.raveontech.com/data_radio_info/ Recent Articles:

Battery life comparison of various types of AA batteries in wireless applications <click here>
Explaining dual-bandwidth IF technology as used in the M7 VHF data radio <click here>

For our GPS tracking products, the tech blog is at: http://ravtrack.com/GPStracking/

How to configure RavTrack PC to monitor the health of your RavTrack AVL communications system <click here>
Configuring which NMEA 0182 sentence will be output from the M7 <click here>

Raveon Technologies Corp is a wireless solutions provider of data radio modems, custom wireless data products, and GPS tracking solutions. Raveon is located at 990 Park Center Way, Suite C, Vista, California, USA. See all of our wireless data products at http://www.raveontech.com and our GPS tracking products at http://www.ravtrack.com . Email us at sales@raveontech.com.