We will be exhibiting our product range at ESC Bangalore. We will be part of Microsoft booth there.  Following will be the demonstrations at ESC

1. E-con’s Spark kit running software for a digital photo frame. The spark kit as you know is for hobbyists and fun lovers who would want to try different things on Windows CE. E-con has come up with a digital photo frame reference software(distributed with full source code) which allows you to handle the spark kit like a picture frame.  The software among other things that allows you to play pictures on a slide show provides different interfaces for uploading the pictures. The pictures can be uploaded through USB, through the internet(via sites like flickr) and also via mobile phones through Bluetooth.  Though this may not be that much useful, we thought of adding a feature like someone with a mobile phone being able to upload pictures via Bluetooth to the picture frame. We will soon publish this entire code on our website for developers to download this and play with it. We will come up with a blog posting exclusively on this.
2. 3M pixel camera connected to the OMAP 35x EVM kit. Currently, e-con is providing API for most of the ISP features supported by the OMAP processor.
3. Extended camera up to 5 meters with the regulus development kit. The regulus as you know is a  rapid development kit for the eSOM270 Computer on module. The camera interface of the PXA270 has been brought out on one of the connector of the regulus board and we have been able to extend this up to 5 meters. This has been one requirement which quite a number of customers had asked us since they wanted to have the camera away from the embedded unit at a distance of 4 to 5 meters. There can be applications like home automation where the camera might be remotely plugged from the actual control panel. This can also be used in vehicles where the camera has to track the rear part of the vehicle while the computer to which it is plugged on be near the driver. One unusual query we got was for garbage collection. The driver if he finds a garbage bin broken, he needs to capture a picture of the bin and this has to be tied up with the GPS co-ordinates of the location and then the picture is sent to the central server. Someone at the central server will later come up with a new bin and replace the broken one.  Now, the computer is in front of the driver  whereas the camera can be placed anywhere. This would require a solution where the cable should be as long as 6m.  Also, it can be used in vehicles where it can be used to detect whether the driver has fallen asleep and this would require the camera to be plugged in on the middle of the steering and hence the computer has to be away. A question that might arise here is that, why we cannot use USB cameras for this purpose or IP cameras? USB cameras cannot go in beyond a distance of 5m and the performance drops at these distances. IP cameras are expensive whereas we are talking about a low cost solution. We have the Windows CE drivers for this solution.
4. We are exhibiting 1D/2D bar code capture using software through our 3.2M pixel autofocus camera. The 1D barcode readers currently cost around USD 70 @ 1K lot whereas the solution which is provided here would cost around 50% of the cost of that. For 2D, this should be the same percentage of gain. Should be interesting to see the customer feedback

Apart from this, our software head, Maharajan is handling two seminars related to Windows CE at the event. Please see www.e-consystems.com/events.asp for more information.

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