San Juan Software

Device-side software for wireless sensor networks

San Juan Software is an embedded software and engineering company based in Seattle. It provides application development and integration for the device end of IoT, including Bluetooth Low Energy, ZigBee and other wireless sensor networks. Its engineers are software, firmware and electronics specialists who advise technology companies on device applications and links.

ZigBee work and the PopNet stack

The firm has a long record in ZigBee. The company says its engineers wrote ZigBee stacks and profiles for semiconductor companies making IEEE 802.15.4 transceivers, and that they have built many applications for businesses that put ZigBee into their products. Its own product, PopNet, is a full mesh networking stack. The company describes PopNet as an economical alternative for makers of wireless sensor and control networks, one that it says makes applications easier to develop and can fit in less than half the space of a ZigBee-based design.

Training for development teams

San Juan Software offers hands-on ZigBee technical training, including courses that run on a client's own site for its development teams. The training is built around the practical problems that engineers meet when they bring sensor networks into products, and the company presents it as part of the same engineering service.

Aerospace and industrial applications

Its current focus includes the aerospace industry, where its customer projects include enhancing the aircraft passenger experience. The company's customer examples include man overboard alarm systems and the optimizing of battery life for forklifts. It describes an award-winning integrated engineering team behind this work.

Manufacturers and standards bodies

Its partners include semiconductor makers, industrial customers and standards bodies. It serves original equipment manufacturers, which are the businesses that build products incorporating wireless connectivity. Through its products, training and services, the company says it helps promote the adoption of sensor and control networks across the Internet of Things.

The company's view

The company's view of the field is that sensors will become inexpensive and widespread, sitting in the devices people use at home, at work and while travelling. It argues that networks of such sensors can conserve resources, improve safety and raise the quality of processes, provided a system can sense a condition and act on it quickly. Its work is aimed at building the device-side software that makes this possible.