P&S DataCom Corp. Announces Alliance with Three Leading Manufacturers' Representative Firms in North America

P&S DataCom Tuesday announced that they have formed alliances with Centaur Corp., Tech-Trek Ltd., and Electronic Sources Inc. for representation in North America.

"Centaur Corp. has a high standard in demand creation with our sales representation using a team oriented synergistic approach," said Kevin Cochran, general manager at Centaur Corp.

"This alliance will allow Centaur to provide a very effective, low-cost solution for companies that want to easily interface, monitor, and manage intelligent devices from around the world or in the next room."

Centaur Corp. is a high-technology manufacturers' representative firm serving the Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Orange County, San Gabriel, San Bernardino and San Diego, Calif.; New Mexico and Arizona marketplaces. Centaur has earned the reputation of quality and distinction through highly technical and experienced sales personnel.

"There are so many uses for P&S' WebChip: automated maintenance and repair notification, equipment control in distance education, industrial automation, just to name a few applications," said Bill Ford, president of Tech-Trek.

"Monitoring the progress of long-distance projects and maintaining their resources is costing companies money in travel, stolen assets, and troubleshooting delays that could all be eliminated with the addition of the WebChip into their Intelligent Device's architecture."
Tech-Trek Ltd. is an electronic component sales representative company with sales coverage throughout the country of Canada. They exclusively represent some of the world's leading quality manufacturers of semiconductor and high-technology passive/electromechanical components.

"Many companies are looking for ways to increase their ROI on large equipment that they already own or lease. One way for them to reduce the cost of the equipment during downtimes or periods of low activity is to allow other companies remote usage to the equipment," said Joe Dragna of Electronic Sources.

"Other remote users could use and control the same equipment over the Internet from anywhere in the world. Thus, saving them the cost of buying their own."

Electronic Sources represents well-known companies such as Atmel, Invensys/Clarostat, General Semiconductor, United Chemi-Con and many more. Electronic Sources has offices in the two largest markets in the Northwest -- Bellevue and Beaverton, Ore. The company focuses on covering the following areas: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Western Montana, Alaska, British Columbia, and Alberta, Canada.

"We are delighted to be represented by these three professional organizations in North America," said Yidong Zhao, vice president and managing director at P&S DataCom. "Our objective is to bring the WebChip solution to a worldwide audience through a range of traditional and unconventional vehicles that build heightened awareness for the WebChip total solution."
P&S' revolutionary technology can be widely used in building controls, security systems, computer products, communication products, factory automation, energy management, medical electronics, automotive electronics, and home appliances market segments.

Applications for the technology are virtually endless: any situation where it would be beneficial to manage and interact with an Intelligent Device (any device with at least one MCU) in a business, vehicle, or home from a worldwide remote location.

They vary from the simple time-saver, such as utility companies checking the status of remote sites and performing maintenance tests; to functions such as automobiles automatically reporting a malfunction or breakdown and being directed to a nearby repair shop; to even more critical functions such as health centers monitoring people's health conditions through a wrist watch-type device.

P&S DataCom has invented a simple, low-cost connectivity solution that allows any existing MCU-based Intelligent Device to be easily connected to the Internet through the WebChip(TM) Module and any Open System Gateway.

The solution includes WebChip(TM) firmware and hardware, MCUnet(TM) and MCUap(TM) protocols. The major functionality of the P&S WebChip(TM) is to turn data related to various intelligent device activities and tasks into objects and map them through different communication interfaces between the Intelligent Device and the Internet.

MCUnet(TM) works like the Rosetta stone to allow any Intelligent Device to seamlessly communicate with P&S' WebChip(TM) through industry standard SPI or I2C interface. MCUap(TM) is P&S' other protocol that allows the WebChip(TM) to talk to any Open System Gateway through nearly all physical links such as RS-232, RS-485, modem, USB, 900MHz, Bluetooth, Powerline, and CAN.

The WebChip(TM) Solution will provide users with an easy upgrade to any Intelligent Device, simple and fast to develop and install. The solution is also client application, operating systems, platform, communication protocol, and MCU independent.

Combining WebChip(TM) Development Kits with ProSyst software, MCU developers can now design Intelligent Device products for ubiquitous worldwide remote access, monitoring, and supervision with easy design, user friendly software.

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