Contract Creates Communications CompanyTELENEXUS, INC., OF RICHARDSON, TEXAS, has established itself in wired/wireless telephony and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system development. It has established a sister company, based on technologies developed during a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project with NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The company developed and commercialized the Digital Wireless Voice Network, based on a wireless headset design that NASA wanted for use in Kennedy's Operational Intercommunications System (OIS). Company President Chuck Lau said that Telenexus marketed the innovation as the TNEX-2000—a flexible, wireless communications system that provides local voice communications for virtually any work group and requires no Federal Communications Commission (FCC) site license to operate. Since that time, Telenexus has grown into a major technology partner with Texas Instruments, Sirit Corporation and Mobil Oil. The company developed and manufactured transceivers for toll collection systems, the Mobil Speedpass and the Texas Instruments Registration and Identification System (TIRIS)—the Tag-It low-cost tags. Telenexus is now developing parking lot and airport hands-free collection systems. The company is also marketing a telephone/voice mail system under the Voice Logic name, a sister company it formed. Trademarks include DVO, Amigo, Voice Express, Clarity and Encore. Voice Logic is focusing on the rapidly growing small office/home office telephony market.
In addition, Telenexus has a joint venture partnership to develop a wireless Private Branch Exchange (PBX) system. The company believes that a 2.4-gigahertz PBX system based on its own Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) will be a successful commercial product beyond the NASA-developed system. NASA's need for this innovation was to enhance Kennedy Space Center's Digital Operational Intercommunications System (OIS-D) by providing it with a wireless headset link capable of supporting all Space Shuttle and payload launch and test activities at the center, including their interfaces to communications systems at other NASA centers. The Telenexus TNEX-2000 wireless communications system uses digital modulation on a spread spectrum. It consists of a base station, four radio/antenna modules and as many as 16 remote units with headsets. The base station serves as a network controller, audio-mixing network and interface to such outside services as computers, telephone networks and other base stations. The system is useful in industrial maintenance, emergency operations, construction and airport operations. Also, digital capabilities can be utilized by adding barcode readers for taking inventories. For more information, contact Lewis Parrish at Kennedy Space Center.
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