Wireless Technology to Control and
Monitor Anything from Anywhere
™
SYNAPSE
Network Evaluation Kit
EK2500
Synapse proudly offers the EK2500 – the
easiest way to experience the full power of
our RF Engine™ hardware, SNAP
®
network
firmware, and Portal
®
desktop software.
Just power up the evaluation hardware and
immediately you’ll get a sense of the speed
and simplicity of SNAP networking. Right
out of the box, the devices are communicating
in a full mesh network. Install the included
Synapse Portal software on your Windows PC
(2K, XP, Vista), MAC or Linux and you’ll begin
to experience the true power of an end-to-end
integrated system. More than just a diagnostic
or commissioning tool, Portal is a complete
wireless application development environment.
You have everything you need to create and
wirelessly deploy your embedded application.
Hardware
SNAP Nodes: 2 Demo Boards
1 SN171-ProtoBoard
1
SN132-Demo
Node
EK2500 SNAP Nodes
come pre-loaded with
SNAP, including a
sample application
ready-to-run out
of the box, in a full
mesh network.
•
SNAP - Instant-ON mesh network stack.
•
Complete end-to-end solution, hardware and
software – device to desktop.
•
Everything you need to interactively prototype
your application.
•
Portal Software – wireless application
development environment.
•
Instructive example scripts demonstrate the
power of SNAP.
•
Step-by-step User’s Guide.
•
Includes all required cables, power supplies
and connectors.
Software
The evaluation kit includes Portal, Synapse’s
revolutionary wireless application development
environment. This easy-to-use graphical interface
provides everything you need for end-to-end
control of your SNAP network.
•
Interactively control and monitor all nodes on the network.
•
Modify device behavior (embedded scripts) wirelessly.
•
Design, test, verify and deploy your application in record time.
Portal includes a variety of sample applications
demonstrating the power of Synapse’s embedded
Python engine, SNAPpy
™.
Available with AES-128 encryption
for secure applications.
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Wireless Technology to Control and
Monitor Anything from Anywhere
™
SYNAPSE
Network Evaluation Kit
EK2500
Portal
This easy-to-use graphical user interface
gives you access to control and monitor-
ing functions that deliver complete net-
work visibility and management. With
Portal
®
, you will see wireless devices
graphically and control them individually
or collectively, monitor activities, keep
event logs, run scripts, and much more.
SNAP
SNAP
®
is Synapse’s revolutionary
wireless mesh networking firmware.
Representing a leap-forward in embed-
ded intelligence, SNAP is built on a
foundation of peer-to-peer networking
and free-form RPC calls. The result is
the first system in its class supporting
the capability to interactively develop
custom applications using a modern,
dynamic programming language.
Develop your application wirelessly,
in minutes, right before your eyes.
SNAP Nodes
The EK2500 kit includes 2 SNAP Demo
Nodes and an SN171 - ProtoBoard that
will provide a complete network and
evaluation platform right out-of-the-box.
Electrical specifications can be verified
and examined under application specific
conditions. And your own sensors or
actuators can be connected to the
SN171 ProtoBoard to evaluate real-
time application performance.
SNAP Demonstration Boards
Want to see a SNAP network in action
right away? These boards have the on-
board peripherals to demonstrate power-
ful monitoring and control capabilities
right out of the box. You can control ex-
ternal electrical devices with the power-
relay, display link-quality or other para-
meters on the 7-segment LEDs, wake
up with a button-press…. Several of
Portal’s sample scripts make specific use of these boards. Modify one of the sample
scripts to make your own application and demonstrate for yourself the power of
SNAP!
SN171 SNAP Node ProtoBoard
With terminal blocks exposing all RF Engine pins, a jumper-selectable RS232 port,
LEDs, and pushbutton, the ProtoBoard is a playground for your wireless imagination.
A low-power device with so much digital and analog capability that’s programmable
in a modern high-level scripting language makes the ProtoBoard pretty unique. Doing
all this with full-mesh wireless networking is truly amazing!
RF Engines
So that you can fully evaluate the
performance of Synapse RF Engines,
we include three configurations:
• Internal “F” antenna
• Internal “F” antenna with transmit
power amplifier
• External (SMA) antenna with transmit
power amplifier
Our primary objective at Synapse is to
move our customers from concept to
wireless network deployment as quickly
as possible. With the Synapse Network
Evaluation Kit, you can experience
it for yourself!
EK2500 Kit Contents
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1
1
1
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2
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Part No.
SN111F5-NR
SN132H0-NR
RF100PD6
RF100PC6
SN171GG-NR
RF100P86
AC11001
AC12000
AC13000
AC13002
AC13001
AC14002
SW24000
Description
Demo Node Board with RF Engine
SNAP Stick
RF Engine SNAP Ext Ant. w/ Tx amp (max range)
RF Engine SNAP F-TYPE w/ Tx amp (max range)
ProtoBoard assembled with the following RFEngine
RF Engine SNAP F-TYPE (extended range)
6 ft. Serial Cable
Half-wave 5” Dipole Ant. w/RP SMA
9V 350 ma DC Power Supply
Battery Holder with on/off switch
AA Alkaline Batteries
Documentation
Portal CD – Unlimited Nodes
Portal desktop software
SYNAPSE Wireless, Inc.
500 Discovery Drive, Huntsville, Alabama 35806
877 982-7888 · synapse-wireless.com
All specifications are subject to change without notice. © 2010 SYNAPSE
®
All Rights reserved. Patents pending.