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Motorola Leverages OPNET to Design the neuRFon™ Wireless Information Network

Motorola Case study

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neuRFon™ is a Motorola wireless connectivity initiative in the emerging X-Internet space that provides enterprises with real-time asset information and inventory management. Combining a sensory network with system management tools and web-based user applications, neuRFon™ enables asset monitoring, location tracking, and condition- sensing to support numerous applications in logistics, manufacturing, security, and more. For example, neuRFon™ could be leveraged to monitor shipping containers, sense chemical or biological contamination, or monitor the structural health of bridges and buildings.

Motorola selected OPNET Modeler to design the neuRFon™ mobile ad-hoc network and the underlying ZigBee and power management protocols. Modeler’s flexible network modeling environment, featuring a scalable discrete event simulation engine, enabled Motorola to accurately simulate realistic implementations of the neuRFon™ network.

”neuRFon™ networks create wide-ranging opportunities for business process revolutions from public safety to shipping to manufacturing. Anywhere real-time asset information and inventory management is needed, the potential benefits are enormous. Motorola’s customers will rely on neuRFon™ technology to enable critical business solutions. We, in turn, rely on OPNET to ensure that our solution architecture is able to support the demands of today’s enterprises.”

Matt Perkins
Manager
neuRFon™ Network Research Group
Motorola Labs, Motorola Inc.