Roving Networks manufactures sensors and other custom platforms to integrate embedded devices, allowing access from Bluetooth enabled PCs, PDAs, cell phones, and networks. Their products reduce wireless product development cycle times and eliminate hassles in the design, test, certification, and manufacture of products. Roving Networks’ products are used in a variety of applications for the data entry, industrial automation, medical and hospital, point of sale, inventory, and home control markets.
Roving Networks is a privately held, fabless semiconductor developer of Wi-Fi certified transceivers and FCC certified Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules. The Roving Networks portfolio offers unique solutions for both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth data connections, including those to Smartphones using the iOS (iPhone) or Android operating systems. Roving Networks solutions are typically aimed at sensors requiring long battery life and a responsive availability to network requests. Roving Networks modules offer fully embedded stacks that simplify customer designs, reducing wireless design cycles to weeks instead of months.
April 19, 2012 Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions announced the acquisition of Roving Networks an innovator in low-power embedded Wi-Fi and Bluetooth solutions based in Los Gatos, Calif.
