Telit

Telit Communications PLC is a company that provides wireless solutions for the use of so-called machine-to -machine communication (M2M ) world. The company is listed on AIM (Ticker: TCM). It offers both mobile as well as short-range RF and GNSS modules and M2M services.

Telit has its corporate headquarters in Rome and has regional headquarters in Trieste, Raleigh ( North Carolina), São Paulo and Seoul. The company also owns an extensive network of sales offices in Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Israel, Italy, Korea, Russia, Spain, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey and the USA.

Company History

The company was founded in 1986 as Telital and Telital automotive offered as an engineering company first multinational telecommunications companies in research and development services. Since 1997, carried the manufacture and marketing of products under the brand name Telit. In 1998, his first Telit M2M module named Data Block on the market. As of 1997, mobile phones and other devices for mobile communications to end users or network operators have been delivered worldwide on a large scale. This includes for example the first Globalstar satellite phone.

In 2003 the company was taken over by Oozi Cats. Since then, Telit provides exclusively manufactures modules for machine - to-machine communication. These include cellular and short-range modules and products for positioning.

In March 2011, Telit M2M module took over the business of Motorola Solutions. The consolidated pro forma turnover of the company including the new acquisition was December 31, 2010 approximately $ 180 million. The company has also GlobalConect Ltd 2011. and Navman Wireless OEM Solutions acquiriert. Thanks to the latter Telit able to significantly expand its portfolio in the field of GNSS.

Today, develops, manufactures and sells Telit M2M modules for all wireless technologies. These include wireless modules such as GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS / WEDGE / HSPA - and CDMA/Ev-Do-M2M-Module, products for short-range technologies such as Wi -Fi, ZigBee, Short Range RF (proprietary and point-to - point networks for unlicensed frequency bands ), Wireless MBus modules as well as GNSS (GPS and GLONASS).

In July 2012, the company established the new business m2mAIR. About the company m2mAIR Services and Connectivity offers for its M2M modules.

Research and development ( R & D)

Telit has six of its own research and development centers worldwide. The R & D center in Trieste, Italy is the main means for the technical planning, design and development. The site is also the headquarters for the global R & D activities at Telit and focuses on the development of GSM, GPRS, EDGE and GPS technologies. The R & D center in Sardinia is the primary center of excellence for other wireless technologies and special projects and developed among the main technologies for wireless short-range communication and satellite transmission. In Sophia Antipolis is a R & D center, which focuses on the development of short-range technologies such as ZigBee, Wireless M-Bus ( Fieldbus ) and Short Range RF is concentrated. Telit's R & D center in Seoul is the main development site for the CDMA, WCDMA and UMTS projects of the company. In addition, it also acts as Telit's center of excellence for specific automotive products and robust design technologies. Another R & D center is in Tel Aviv and supports the other centers in the development of all cellular technologies. Another R & D center is located in the U.S. and specializes in satellite technology.