Section 5.13. UWB Market Players

5.13. UWB Market Players

Although UWB has a broad range of applications and potential markets, the lengthy standardization process and the uncertainty over a final IEEE standard for UWB PHY have delayed the development of UWB-based devices. For this reason, only a relatively small number of companies are actively developing UWB systems at the time of writing. Table 5-4 lists some of the UWB market leaders and identifies their target markets.

Table 5-4. Key players in the UWB market

Company	Target Market	Location
Aether Wire & Location	Localizer	Sunnyvale, California
Blue7 Communications	Home entertainment, WLAN	Milpitas, California
Cellonics	IP	Singapore
Freescale Semiconductor (Motorola)	Wireless digital video	Austin, Texas
Furaxa	UWB pulsers, samplers	Orinda, California
General Atomics	WPAN	San Diego, California
Intel	WPAN	Santa Clara, California
Multispectral Solutions	Radar, geopositioning, military	Germantown, Maryland
Pulse~LINK	Wireless networks, multimedia applications	San Diego, California
Pulsicom Technologies	Positioning	Israel
Staccato Communications	Low-power WPAN	San Diego, California
Time Domain Corporation	Through-wall sensing	Huntsville, Alabama
TZero Technologies	WLAN/WPAN	Sunnyvale, California
Wisair	WLAN/WPAN	Israel
Zircon	Barcode scanner, stud finder	Campbell, California