Elsema Remote systems

[Graham]

Novel Ways have been major agents and stockists of the Elsema brand remote control equipment in NZ for over ten years. We have incorporated these platforms into clients' equipment, and also supplied functional blocks and expertise to other businesses, to allow them to add value.

All this experience means that we will most likely be able to solve your problem, or add real value to your own manufacturing. Remote control with basic aerial structures can be achieved over distances of 5km or more (omnidirectional) and even further if directional aerials are used.

Please use this forum to discuss any issues with Elsema platforms (27MHz, 433MHz, 915MHz), and we will strive to post the solutions.

[Graham]

For industrial applications, we are moving more and more to the 921MHz (915MHz) platform from Elsema. This is a frequency approved for free use in NZ, and at that frequency the aerials are fairly small, and noise immunity is high. The 921MHz system is frequency-hopping, which means you have good security, and you can press two buttons or channels on the remote and have both receiver channels getting a signal. Even better, the remotes and receivers use the familiar DIP-SWITCH setup for locking addresses to custom settings. That means easy replacements of remotes and other parts if anything should go wrong. We already have several customers using this platform (1,2,4,8,12,16 channel), and have reasonable stocks on the shelf.