PG Drives Technology gets ‘Smart’ with new R-net for Android App
Christchurch, UK – Tuesday, 08 October 2013 – PG Drives Technology – a product brand of Curtiss-Wright Controls Industrial and leaders in control devices and systems for medical mobility vehicles and equipment – has launched a specialist App that allows ‘Smart’ devices, including cell phones and tablets, to be controlled from the company’s R-net Wheelchair Control System.
The PG Drives Technology R-net for Android App, which is free to download from the Google Play Store, allows a Smart device to be operated via Bluetooth communications from an existing R-net Bluetooth Mouse Module. The R-net for Android App places a large, easy-to-view cursor on the device’s screen, allowing the powered wheelchair’s joystick to be used to navigate the cursor to a function. Once the cursor is hovering over the required icon, commands from the input device can be used to select the function, allowing the user undertake numerous tasks including making calls, surfing the internet or checking emails.
The R-net for Android App adds to a number of R-net communications aids developed by PG Drives Technology (PGDT) for the mobility market. It complements other systems including the company’s R-net Omni for the remote control of home entertainment devices including TVs, DVDs and HiFi systems; and R-net Bluetooth Mouse Module, which enables the control of a desktop or laptop PC via the wheelchair’s joystick.
R-net for Android also adds to a growing number of products for the R-net multi-module powerchair control system, which has been designed by PGDT to control the speed, direction and numerous other functions on medium- to high-specification powered wheelchairs. Using a unique, CANbus-based communications protocol designed by PGDT, R-net can also be connected to up to 15 I/O devices including LED or colour JSMs, seating, lighting and attendant modules.
The PG Drives Technology R-net for Android App can be downloaded from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teksoftco.android.pgdtoverlay
Further information is available from the new-look PG Drives Technology website (www.pgdt.com) or by calling +44 (0)1425 271444.
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Mike Iles, Marketing Manager, Curtiss-Wright Controls Industrial
10 Airspeed Road, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 4HD, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 (0)1425 271444, Email: miles@curtisswright.com
Web: www.pennyandgiles.com
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About Curtiss-Wright Controls Industrial
The Curtiss-Wright Controls Industrial (www.cwc-ind.com) business unit is formed from a group of established specialist companies who are experts in the design, testing, manufacture and marketing of a range of components and systems for the safe and reliable operation and control of mobile and static machinery - especially advanced electric-powered vehicles, heavy trucks, buses, off-road and military vehicles and motorsport.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.
Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Curtiss-Wright Controls is the Controls segment of Curtiss- Wright Corporation and a leading designer and manufacturer of advanced technologies for niche actuation and drive applications, integrated sensors and controls, and electronic subsystems internationally for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets. For more information, visit www.cwcontrols.com.
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