I’ve started collecting the information around the end of 2010 because the wireless technology advanced to much higher bandwidth for multimedia streaming.
There are two conditions of the development that I thought.
1. To develop the whole wireless part by ourselves.
2. To buy the module directly from the supplier.
But some important factors that make me just ‘collect information’ at that moment.
For 1, the expense is very horrible.
- We have to pay chip vendor for NRE.
- We are new to be the player and we have no credit to the chip vendor.
- We have no equipment and we have to invest a lot to do it.
- There are lots of tasks need for the regulation.
To sum up, this is a money game for surveillance company and we see no market at that moment.
For 2, we could leverage a lot tasks to supplier but we still have to prepare equipment to verify the whole system and get the experience of the regulation. However, the module cost and performance ratio could not meet our requirement. It is quite challenge for me to persuade my boss to do it.
So what I can do is just keep attention on wireless technology.
Until now, I have the chance to do the development finally.
Although I’m newbie for wireless, it’s not too hard to enter this area. The reason is the technology become much mature and we can make it work even we do not know much about wireless. So, let’s just do it.
The module I use is based on Atheros AR6103 and AR6003. The driver of these two chips are similar.
The documents I study is are mainly from Atheros. I also reference the IEEE specification and search on Google.
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