Scanning Devices New Product Release

Date: July 6, 2001

Scanning Devices has announced and released several new products for Thermochron iButtons and Palm Handhelds.

Two new iConnection products extend iButton Systems to Palm IIIc (color) and Palm M100/M105 Series (low cost Palm Series)

New iConnection 3303C operates with the full Palm III Series including Palm III, Palm IIIe, Palm IIIxe and Palm IIIc. It also operates with Palm VII Series handhelds. iConnection 3303C has begun shipping to customers. New iConnection 3301A operates with the new lower cost Palm M100 and M105 handhelds. This model iConnection will begin shipping to customers in late July. iConnection 3303A continues to be available. This model iConnection operates with Palm III and Palm VII Series except Palm IIIc (color).

Palm IIIc and iConnection 3303C Display Thermochron Temperature Data in Graphic Form

iConnection Products clip on to Palm handhelds and accept an RJ11 (telephone style) connector for an iButton probe. With Palm OS software, they read and write iButtons (industrially packaged memory and sensor components) manufactured by Dallas Semiconductor. Palm OS software operates uniformly with all iConnection products, so that applications written for one Palm series and one iConnection product operate without modification on the others.

For more information on the iConnection Product Line, please visit the Scannng Devices website.

Version 2 of tcButton, Thermochron iButton Application System for Palm OS and Windows is now available.

tcButton is an Application System spanning PC and Palm to implement temperature logging with the Dallas Semiconductor Thermochron iButton.

The Palm OS component of the tcButton application provides Palm Database and User Interface on the handheld. It has been extended in Version 2 to include Palm-familiar features: Beaming, Palm preferences for temperature units and mission initialization, Database searches for text and iButton Serial Numbers, Palm calendar-like scheduling of Missions.

The Windows PC Dialog component of the tcButton application is used to enter Thermochron Mission parameters for transmission to Palm and to display Thermochron Mission data read by Palm. Version 2 has been extended to Display Thermochron samples in columnar form with date, time, temperature and alarm status; Select samples for display; Generate mission data in web page or tab-delimited format for importing into other PC software systems such as Excel or SAS, for transmission to other computers via the internet; and for printing, editing and reporting.

Version 2 of tcButton began shipping to customers in June and is currently available for all Palm handhelds which operate with iConnection products.

Specifics of what's new in version 2 are detailed here.

Scanning Devices designs and manufactures sensors, instruments and controls for industrial automation. The company is located in Burlington, Massachusetts.

For More Information, contact:
Dave Chanoux
Engineering
Scanning Devices Inc
Phone: 781-272-5135
Fax: 781-272-4856
Email: mail@scanningdevices.com