Rajant Introduces Credit Card-sized Dual-radio Breadcrumb Module

Rajant Corporation, a pioneer of Kinetic Mesh wireless networks, unveiled on Monday its Cardinal BreadCrumb module during ProMat at Chicago’s McCormick Place in Booth N8550. The show continues through Thursday.

The Cardinal is powerful, lightweight and the smallest within Rajant’s portfolio of industrial wireless nodes. Orders for the BreadCrumb module specifically tailored to the needs of robotic automation in the warehouse market and Industry 4.0 will be taken starting next week.

Designed with automation robots in mind, including collaborative robots, automated storage/retrieval systems, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), unmanned guided vehicles (UGVs), and more, the Rajant Cardinal enhances on-the-move connectivity in challenging environments. The Cardinal extends the range of traditional Wi-Fi past the limitations of fixed infrastructure with no line-of-sight requirements using two transceivers having a combined data rate of 1.73 Gbps.

In addition to robotics and infrastructure in warehouse automation, the wireless node has applications as part of irrigation in agriculture, reclosers in energy, PLC controls in oil and gas, drone and UAV in the military and light show markets, and process automation in the manufacturing industry.

According to Rajant channel partner Gray Solutions’ Ale Walker, director of business development, “Rajant’s latest release, the Cardinal, will transform how organizations think about lights-out operations. The Rajant Cardinal will provide connectivity between systems within a facility and will be a critical piece of infrastructure in manufacturing and warehousing across the globe.”

Rajant EVP of Sales and Marketing Geoff Smith added, “Our latest industrial temperature IP40 dual radio BreadCrumb module is our smallest form factor to date focused on robotics that makes Wi-Fi and LTE/5G better while enabling connectivity to billions of Wi-Fi IoT devices. Rajant provides an extended range by supporting high-capacity M2M communications, which automatically works around physical and RF obstructions. We’ve been doing this for 21 years, so Rajant understands the requirements for secure critical communications.”

ProMat attendees will experience product demonstrations, interactive immersive proof of concepts and more. Schedule a time to meet at the show, or stop by the booth to see the latest Rajant products.