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RedPine Signals
802.11n Serial to WiFi Modules
A pair of serial wireless device server modules from RedPine Signals provides wireless connectivity to LANs for industrial devices. The RS9110-N-11-21 and RS9110-N-11-22, based on the company's ultra-low-power Lite-Fi 802.11n technology, operate in the 2.4-GHz ISM band and can coexist with other radios, such as Bluetooth, in the same band. The -22 fully integrated device server has a complete TCP/IP networking stack, Web service, WLAN driver, 802.11 enterprise security, and WLAN protocol running on the internal processor and is suited for M2M communications. The low-cost -21 module provides secure WLAN connectivity to equipment or host systems connected to a network through a serial interface running SLIP. Both devices enable the collection, packetization, and transfer of external data from sensors and other devices connected via GPIO lines.