more. Beyond the Wireless Gauge and Transducer Reader products, Cypress Systems is gearing up to roll out a string of additional products that are designed to rescue trapped data wirelessly from various other kinds of industrial and commercial legacy devices, he says.

In late September, the company planned to introduce a Wireless Pneumatic Thermostat—aimed at the commercial building market—as well as a Wireless Steam Trap Monitor (WSTM) for the industrial arena. The WSTM will mount noninvasively on existing steam traps and will use temperature sensing and built-in intelligence to detect and wirelessly alert users of stream trap failures and leaks. An estimated 15 percent to 20 percent of all steam traps are malfunctioning at a given time, says Sim, and each leaking trap wastes $5,000 or more in energy costs per year.

“We see a large number of points out there that are in this non-mission critical, near-real time, man-in-the-loop kind of space,” says Sim. “We think it’s in the hundreds of millions of devices. This is not a sexy space, but it’s huge,” he adds, and it is a market to date that has been “completely underserved.”