Focus Wireless is producer of wireless products for consumer and industrial applications with sales and distribution channels worldwide.
This application is for a Helium light hotspot. Focus Wireless has some unique technology differentiators that will help the Helium network to expand out of the major cities in into the towns and villages driven by improved RF performance and lower pricing points.
Focus Wireless Incorporated: Develops and manufactures high technology products for consumer and industrial applications. Recognized at an important vendor in the supply of innovative wireless products for specialist applications. Producing excellence for over 20 years.
Focus Wireless has an extensive engineering team with engineers at our design centers in the United States, Hong Kong and Mainland China. Hardware and firmware is developed in-house and in conjunction with close vendors. Deep and detailed experience with RF technologies with operating frequencies across the consumer spectrum from 1 MHz to 10 GHz, which includes:
- [0.53 – 1.700 MHz] Broadcast AM radio receivers with immunity to digital noise generating by modern computing platforms.
- [13.56 MHz] NFC for applications that require extreme operating ranges up to 35 meters.
- [13.56 MHz] Body coupled communications, a unique Focus technology for medical applications.
- [88 – 108 MHz] FM broadcast receivers for extreme RF environments (rad hardened).
- [174 – 240 MHz] Digital audio broadcasting receivers for consumer audio products.
- [433 – 915 MHz] Sub-GHz radio solutions for industrial and IoT applications. Utilizing THREAD and LoRaWAN networking. Applications include agritech sensors, industrial tracking systems and home automation.
- [1.5 GHz] GNSS band applications for outdoor location systems (RTLS).
- [2.4 GHz] Bluetooth application, classic (2.1 EDR) and BLE applications for IoT and consumer audio products. Products have been developed for many famous consumer brands utilizing Bluetooth wireless where Focus excels at ensuring that the RF integrity exceeds that of any products on the market.
- [2.4 GHz] WiFi 802.11 bgn for consumer and industrial applications. Consumer application include smart speakers for many famous audio brands.
- [5G bands] WiFi for industrial and consumer products.
- [5.2/5.8 GHz] ISM applications for custom developed wireless networking protocols for consumer audio and home automations with long range.
- [6.5 – 8 GHz] Ultrawide band communications and real time locations systems. Focus has helped create tag-based products for tier #1 brands and is widely respected within the field of UWB applications due to extensive experience.
Focus Wireless has designed and built products that have sold many millions of SKUs in most major markets worldwide for 2 decades.
Consumer products include those branded by Teufel (Germany), Radioshack (USA), Toshiba (Global), Motorola (US/EU), Grundig (EU/ANZ), Onkyo (US/APAC), Medion (Germany), Lenco (EU/MENA) Telefunken (Global), etc.
Focus wireless has identified an application gap within existing hotspots on the market after testing numerous contemporary products. The RF performance, although stated to be very strong is often compromised in real-world applications due to an absence of custom matching of antennas. Focus Wireless has solved that problem.
Focus wireless devices will be aimed at users that are outside of the major cities and thus very dependent upon fully optimized RF performance. Focus works with recognized LoRaWAN module manufacturers and specifies and designs the modules to its own custom requirements. These custom modules are then designed into our own products.
Focus intends to supply hotspots with a range of optional antennas that have special matching modules to ensure that the stated antenna performance is actually achieved. In testing it has been found that this approach can offer 25% to 40% improved range over existing market products.
If the Helium network is to effectively expand into the towns and villages, hotspots need to be produced that are better matched to these challenging applications.
The Focus Wireless Hotspot is a light hotspot and is in the closing stages of development and DFM (design for manufacturing) is underway, tooling for the product is in progress and prototypes can be submitted at any time.
The product is intended for indoor use with optional outdoor antennas.
USD 399
- Prototypes = April 2022
- Pilot Production = June 2022
- Mass production = July 2022
- Physical size: 126 x 126 x 40 mm excluding antenna options.
- Mass: 248 g excluding wall mounting bracket.
- Compute Core: Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A55 operating at 1.8 GHz.
- Memory: 64 GB eMMC flash with encrypted contents, 2 GB DDR3 RAM.
- WiFi: 802.11 bgn. 18 dBm TX, -94 dBm RX sensitivity. Custom antenna.
- Ethernet: 10/100 base-T with PoE+ Type 2 PD supporting 802.3at
- Bluetooth: BLE V4.2 EDR. 6dBm TX -96 dBm RX sensitivity.
- LoRaWAN: User replaceable wireless module, all regions will be supported. Initial region will be US915. TX 30dBm, -148 dBm RX sensitivity.
- LoRaWAN Range (US915):
- UPM (urban propagation model) = 4.5 km,
- Rural > 8 km.
- LOS = 10.7 km.
- Power: 12V, 2A from supplied adapter. EnergyStar and Prop-65 compliant.
- Security: ATECC608 swarm key storage and encrypted eMMC for firmware.
- Antenna:
- Standard = 3 dBi with matching module, guarantees VSWR < 1.3
- Optional high gain = 9 dBi with matching module, guarantees VSWR < 1.2
- Optional focused antenna = 15 dBi with matching module, guarantees VSWR < 1.3
- Optional patch antenna = 6 dBi with matching module, guarantees VSWR < 1.4
Focus wireless has designed and shipped over 100 specialist wireless products and specific details can be provided upon request. Focus’s manufacturing partners and vendors can be disclosed upon request separately.
For each product that has been shipped, full certifications have been achieved:
Safety: CE LVDS, UL, ULC, etc.
EMC Compliance: CE, FCC, TELEC, IC, TUV, etc.
Environmental: EnergyStar, Prop-65, WEEE, RoHS, REACH, etc.
The initial variants of the product will be certified for use within USA, China & India.
Focus Wireless has partners in each geographical location to provide local technical support via email and telephone. Local distribution partners will handle product returns and replacements.
Focus will establish a dedicated web portal that will allow customers to optimize the location of the product and antenna based upon each customers specific locale and will advise the type and placement of antennas that should be used for optimum performance. Once a customer establishes an account with the platform, metrics will be used to optimize the ML platform to enable all customers to be able to further optimize the performance of their products.
The web platform and Focus Wireless APP will also provide OTA upgrades for the product 24/7. The Focus APP will also provide guidance to customers for optimization of the product. 24-hour customer support in each geographical location that the product is sold to.
E-mail customer support in local language.
The Focus Wireless Hotspot hotspot uses ATECC608 and encrypted eMMC flash memory. Data over local data bus is encrypted. Sample will be supplied.
Focus wireless will separately supply data on the prototype to DeWi. We are able to supply full schematics with the sample.
WiFi is configurable via the Focus Wireless APP.
LoRaWAN: SX1302 Baseband, SZ1250 PHY
Focus Wireless has produced a large number of products that feature wireless and sub-GHz wireless, including gateways. Product details and quantities can be supplied on request.
LoRaWAN modules are bespoke designed for Focus Wireless and produced at a 3rd party vendor that has extensive manufacturing experience with this type of module production. This vendor is able to supply 10,000 units per month from 2022-Q2 and 30000 units per month from 2022-Q3 onwards. Further supply forecasts will be available from 2022-Q3.
Separately supplied to DeWi on KYC Google doc.
From 20k to 500k production units to be delivered 7/1/2022 through 3/31/2023, depending on demand. We can achieve production of 1 million units or more over the next 12 months if there is market demand.
Design, prototype development, and mold costs are approximatly USD 240,000. This amount has already been invested out-of-pocket. We have at least $10 million available for initial production runs of 10000-30000 units.
We have initial production runs covered. Our ownership and partners have multiple bank credit lines and our own hedge fund to extend capital as needed. We already have commitments for purchase orders and customer deposits once full production begins.
The principal risks are those related to the COVID-19 pandemic, our manufacturing is within Mainland China and this could result in delays or component shortages. Component supply issues might also effect final product pricing.
Gary.straus@focus-wireless.com
https://focus-wireless.com/manufacturing/
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