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Synapse Wireless, located in Huntsville, Alabama, connects machines to the Internet by providing intelligent, wireless control and monitoring technology based on the SNAP® network operating system.

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February 28, 2013:
Synapse Wireless Expands Executive Team
Synapse Wireless® announced today that M. Todd Holt has joined Synapse Wireless as President of the company. Mr. Holt will be responsible for directing the custom solutions and horizontal market businesses in Synapse’s core market of cloud-enabled, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication solutions. Synapse will draw on his experience in corporate strategy, M&A, capital structure and IPOs to help direct the rapid growth planned for the company.
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September 6, 2012:
Synapse Wireless® - Arrow Electronics - Exosite Launch Cloud-Based, Wireless, M2M Solution

Synapse Wireless, Arrow Electronics and Exosite announced today a new machine-to-machine (M2M) solution for cloud-based, wireless monitoring and control using commercially available components – the Arrow M2M Access kits. These kits allow the user to focus on application development while shielding network complexity issues from the user.


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September 6, 2012:
McWane Acquires Majority Interest in Synapse Wireless

Synapse Wireless® announced today that McWane, Inc. has acquired a majority interest in Synapse and its award-winning, wireless mesh network platform called SNAP®.  McWane’s financial backing will allow Synapse to accelerate its technology expansion and product offerings for the rapidly growing machine-to-machine (M2M) communications market.


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February 2, 2012:
Synapse Wireless Expands Engineering Team

Synapse Wireless® announced today the appointment of Brent Dix as Vice President of Engineering. Since its inception, Synapse has constantly focused on strengthening its technical talent to meet the engineering requirements of its growing customer base. Synapse has experienced a five-fold increase in its user base for SNAP®, the award-winning, wireless network operating system for connecting machines to each other and to the Internet.


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January 26, 2012:
Synapse Wireless Continues Aggressive Growth Strategy with Arrow Electronics

Synapse Wireless® today announced an agreement with Arrow Electronics for the global distribution of Synapse’s Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions based on the award-winning SNAP® network platform. Seeing a five-fold increase in the number of registered SNAP developers over the past two years, Synapse is now servicing thousands of engineers who are experiencing the benefits of a wireless control and monitoring solution that simply works.


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January 19, 2012:
Synapse Wireless and Digi-Key Corporation Sign Global Distribution Agreement

Synapse Wireless®, Inc., provider of SNAP, the intelligent, wireless technology for networking machines-to-machines and to the Internet, and Digi-Key Corporation, the leading integrated, Internet-based distributor of electronic components, announced today that the companies have entered into a global agreement for the distribution of Synapse’s wireless solutions.


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October 12, 2011:
Synapse CTO named to IPSO Alliance Technical Advisory Board

Synapse Wireless®, Inc. announced today that David Ewing, Chief Technology Officer, has been named to the IPSO Alliance Technical Advisory Board (TAB). IPSO is the primary advocate for IP networked devices used in energy, consumer, healthcare and industrial applications. TAB provides for the technical oversight of IP Smart Objects and for the review of progress made by relevant standardization groups.


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September 28, 2011:
Synapse SNAP Now Available on ARM7

Synapse Wireless®, Inc. announced the availability of its 2.4GHz surface mount transceiver module based on a powerful, 32-bit TDMI ARM7 microprocessor. With 96K RAM of memory, not only can applications be uploaded to the RF module wirelessly, even the core SNAP® network operating system can be uploaded over-the-air. This latest RF Module from Synapse, the SM700PC1, is available exclusively from Future Electronics.


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September 28, 2011:
Synapse Wireless® Announces Surface Mount Sub-GHz
SNAP® RF Modules

Synapse Wireless®, Inc. announced today the availability of its long-range, surface mount sub-GHz transceiver modules. Supporting the North American 915MHz band and European 868MHz band, these sub-GHz RF modules come preloaded with SNAP®, the industry’s most reliable wireless mesh network operating system for connecting machines to each other and the Internet.


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May 17, 2011:
Synapse Wireless launches Cloud-based Lighting Control Products with Future Lighting Solutions
Synapse Wireless announced today at the LIGHTFAIR International Trade Show & Conference the release of easily-installed, intelligent wireless lighting control products. Leveraging Synapse’s award-winning SNAP wireless network operating system, these lighting products take advantage of the new SNAP Lighting Cloud Service for Internet-based access and control.
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March 31, 2011:
Synapse Wireless Named in Top 300 Startups for 2011
Synapse Wireless® today announced that the company has been chosen for inclusion in the 2011 Edition of the fundedIDEAS publication - TOP 300 STARTUPS. Synapse is the creator of the SNAP® network operating system which gives everyday devices a way to wirelessly interact with each other and the Internet.
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February 10, 2011:
Synapse Wireless Joins IPSO Alliance
Synapse Wireless® today announced it has become a Contributor member of the Internet Protocol for Smart Objects Alliance (IPSO). By joining IPSO, Synapse will increase the growing awareness of its SNAP Network Operating System’s native ability to connect with the Internet today – a key underpinning of the Alliance. Synapse’s SNAP architecture combines an open source application development environment with the ability to run on any network layer and will provide a seamless transition path to IPV6.
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December 20, 2010:
TV Coverage of SNAP's Supporting Role in TRON

 

Special effects is the name of this game. Those cool futuristic suits the actors are wearing light up thanks to a Huntsville company called "Synapse Wireless."
- WAAY TV 31

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When companies like Disney go out to make a movie such as Tron: Legacy, they want to bring in the latest and greatest technologies to enhance the film experience for their audience.
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CEO Wade Patterson says the flexibility and reliability is attracting imaginative engineers to use wireless technology in ways he hadn't anticipated.
- WAAF TV 48

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December 20, 2010:
Synapse's SNAP Network OS Provides Wireless Lighting Control for 'TRON: Legacy' Suits
SNAP, Synapse’s network operating system, was used in Walt Disney Pictures’ 3D high-tech adventure TRON: Legacy.
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November 9, 2010:
Future Lighting Solutions Enables Intelligent Lighting to Enhance Energy-Saving Potential of LEDs
Future Lighting Solutions today announced the upcoming release of a broad range of simple, robust, scalable, flexible and interoperable intelligent lighting systems, sub-systems and services to significantly enhance the energy-saving potential of solid state lighting. "The key to enabling our ILP ecosystem concept is to closely align with the right software partner, and we have achieved this with Synapse Wireless," said Patrick Durand, Future's Worldwide Technical Director.
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November 9, 2010:
Synapse Wireless Expands Into Europe
Synapse Wireless® announced today that Line One Sales Ltd., a leading independent technology sales company for advanced electronic products in metering, instrumentation and energy markets, has signed an agreement to offer Synapse’s Internet-enabled, SNAP products and services in Europe.
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July 28, 2010:
Future Electronics and Synapse Wireless® Sign Exclusive Worldwide Distribution Agreement
Synapse Wireless announced today that Future Electronics, a world-class leader and innovator in the distribution and marketing of electronics, has committed to a two-year, multi-million dollar exclusive partnership for the global distribution of products and services based on the SNAP network operating system.
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May 5, 2010:
Teridian, Synapse Wireless and California Eastern Laboratories Showcase Energy Measurement Design Solution at LIGHTFAIR International
Next week at LIGHTFAIR International 2010, Teridian Semiconductor, Synapse Wireless and California Eastern Laboratories (CEL) will demonstrate a new design solution for the intelligent wireless control and energy monitoring of LED light fixtures and advanced solid state lighting products in Booth #2428 in the Building Integration Pavilion. The comprehensive solution includes Teridian's 78M661x system-on-chip (SoC), CEL's MeshConnect™ 802.15.4 product line and Synapse's SNAP® network operating system.
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April 27, 2010:
Synapse's SNAP Available on 2Mbps Atmel Wireless Microcontroller to Offer Internet-enabled Wireless Mesh Network
Synapse Wireless®, Inc. and Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) today announced that Synapse's SNAP® network operating system is now available for Atmel's new highly integrated ATmega128RFA1 wireless microcontroller.
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April 27, 2010:
Synapse and Silicon Labs Introduce Complete Solution for Wireless Mesh Networking
Synapse Wireless®, Inc. and Silicon Laboratories Inc. today introduced a jointly developed wireless mesh networking solution that combines the award-winning Synapse SNAP® network operating system with Silicon Labs' Si1000 wireless microcontroller (MCU).
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April 27, 2010:
Synapse Wireless® Introduces SNAP-to-Internet Appliance
Synapse Wireless®, Inc. today announced the SNAP Connect E10 embedded appliance, providing seamless connectivity of SNAP, Ethernet, Wi-Fi and even cellular traffic to centralized applications, databases or storage.
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April 27, 2010:
Synapse Wireless® Makes RS-232/485 Cable Replacement a SNAP
Synapse Wireless®, Inc. today announced SNAP Link, a new family of wireless mesh network serial adapter products intended for industrial markets where benefits such as robust packaging, high bandwidth, superior signal quality and distance are required.
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April 27, 2010:
Synapse Wireless® Announces Sub-GHz SNAP® RF Engines
Synapse Wireless®, Inc. today announced a new sub-GHz RF Engine® that handles a wide range of different frequencies under 1GHz.
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April 27, 2010:
Synapse Wireless® Introduces 2Mbps SNAP RF Engine
Synapse Wireless®, Inc. today announced a new RF Engine® that delivers more than twice the processing performance of any previous RF Engine, along with a 2 Mbps data rate, the highest rate in the 2.4 GHz IEEE802.15.4 market.
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April 12, 2010:
2 Million SNAP licenses purchased by California Eastern Laboratories (CEL)
California Eastern Laboratories (CEL) Inc. purchased two million SNAP® licenses. SNAP is Synapse's wireless mesh network operating system that runs on CEL's MeshConnect 802.15.4 family of products.
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March 10, 2010:
Synapse® Wireless Doubles Year-on-Year Revenue
Synapse Wireless®, Inc. today announced that its 2009 revenue doubled over 2008 revenue.
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February 24, 2010:
Synapse's SNAP® named Product of the Year by SmartGrid.TMCnet.com
Synapse Wireless has received a 2009 Smart-Grid.TMCnet.com Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and Intelligent Communications Partners.
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September 23, 2009:
Frost & Sullivan names Synapse Wireless Emerging Company of the Year for 2009
Based on its recent analysis of the wireless building automation systems (BAS) market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Synapse Wireless, Inc. (Synapse) with the 2009 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for Emerging Company of the Year. Synapse's intensive efforts to propagate a differentiated wireless network solution that capitalizes on cost effectiveness and flexibility have enabled the building automation and machine-to-machine (M2M) space to reach new levels of functionality. In a considerably short period of time the company has made in-roads in the wireless network markets with its SNAP® network software solution.
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