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Freescale Wireless Developer Network Names 2007 Partner of the Year
Filed Jun 29, 2007 at 1:28 PM ·
Recognizing outstanding partners of the Wireless Developer Network, Freescale Semiconductor acknowledged five distinguished companies for their exceptional contributions to the program. The Freescale Wireless Developer Network (FWDN) chose partners who consistently demonstrate expertise in the categories of software, hardware, enablement, tools, ZigBee® technologies and support services.
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Motiev: Better than Fairy Dust
Filed Jun 27, 2007 at 4:19 PM ·
The market for wireless sensor networks using tiny, low-powered sensor devices called motes that can measure everything from soil temperature to motion is about to take off, and Moteiv Corp., a San Francisco startup, hopes to cash in big with products it says are smaller and easier to use than the competition's.
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Moteiv Announces New, Smaller Mote
Filed May 11, 2007 at 5:15 PM ·
Moteiv Corp., a San Francisco-based provider of wireless sensor network solutions, has announced its most compact wireless sensor network node, or mote. The Tmote Mini supports the ZigBee air-interface specification for wireless sensor networks and is packaged in an industry-standard miniSDIO form factor. This allows users to insert it into any cell phone, PDA or other digital device that includes a standard SD port.
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Harvard, BBN Use Streetlamps to Light Up Wireless Network
Filed May 11, 2007 at 5:15 PM ·
The system solves a constraint on previous wireless networks—battery life—by mounting each node on a municipal streetlamp, where it draws power from city electricity. Researchers plan to install 100 sensors on streetlamps throughout Cambridge by 2011, using a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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TI offers free downloadable Zigbee stack
Filed May 01, 2007 at 5:53 PM ·
Texas Instruments announced the release of Zigbee stack (Z-Stack) for free download at the TI Website. Z-Stack is compliant with the ZigBee 2006 specification and supports multiple platforms including the CC2430 SoC solution for IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee and a platform based on the CC2420 transceiver and the MSP430 low-power MCUs.
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Start-Up Launches Easy-to-Configure Wireless Sensor Network Technology
Filed May 01, 2007 at 5:53 PM ·
Aiming to take much of the technical complexity out of setting up and configuring wireless sensor networks, start-up technology vendor Synapse Inc. today released a series of wireless control networking products based on the company's proprietary Synapse Network Appliance Protocol (SNAP).
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Indoor Mobile Robot Localization
Filed May 01, 2007 at 5:53 PM ·
The Robotics Institute released a report recently titled Parrots: A Range Measuring Sensor Network (PDF format) that describes a wireless sensor network that can be used for localization by indoor mobile robots.
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Dust Networks Wireless Sensor Networking Technology Speeds Time
Filed Apr 28, 2007 at 2:10 PM ·
Dust Networks(TM), the leading provider of highly reliable, low-power wireless sensor networking (WSN) systems, and Novazone, the leading provider of clean technology solutions for food and water, announced today that Dust Networks has been selected as the WSN provider for Novazone's ozone-based products.
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Sensicast Ships Wireless Sensor Network System for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Life Sciences
Filed Apr 25, 2007 at 3:32 PM ·
Based on Sensicast’s patented SensiNet® technology, the new system collects data from Smart Sensors installed at monitoring points in labs, manufacturing, storage and shipping environments and then seamlessly passes the data wirelessly into the company’s network infrastructure. The network provides self-managed data routing capability for redundancy and reliability.
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Mesh Network: MachineTalker Debuts Multi-Sensor Unit Evaluation
Filed Apr 17, 2007 at 12:13 AM ·
The evaluation kit consists of three Talkers and a simple to use Java-based Application Program Interface (API), allowing users to reach remote Talker units over a wireless network, set individual thresholds for the devices, log data over time and display results.
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Tech Hub to Open Sensor Data to Anyone
Filed Apr 12, 2007 at 1:11 PM ·
...the sensors will grab weather data like temperature, rainfall and wind speeds, but eventually the project designers plan to integrate such things as pollution detectors and traffic monitors.
What’s new about the system, known as CitySense, is that the sensor information will be entirely open to the public over the Web.
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Cambridge to host wireless sensor network
Filed Apr 11, 2007 at 3:33 PM ·
Researchers at Harvard University and BBN Technologies have designed a wireless network capable of reporting real-time sensor data across an entire city, they said Friday.
Scientists will initially use the CitySense network to monitor urban weather and pollution, and the network could eventually be adopted to provider better public wireless Internet access.
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Self-healing house in Greece will dare to defy nature
Filed Apr 03, 2007 at 6:06 AM ·
A high-tech villa designed to resist earthquakes by ‘self-healing’ cracks in its own walls and monitoring vibrations through an intelligent sensor network will be built on a Greek mountainside.
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Arch Rock Announces First IP-based Wireless Sensor Network
Filed Mar 21, 2007 at 1:12 PM ·
Taking the last major step toward merging wireless sensor networks (WSNs) seamlessly into the world of Internet Protocol (IP) standards, Arch Rock Corporation has introduced the first commercial implementation of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 6LoWPAN proposed standard for IPv6 communication over low-power IEEE 802.15.4 wireless radio.
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Multi-Channel Sensor Board
Filed Mar 06, 2007 at 2:23 AM ·
A new compact, five-channel sensor board from Information System Technologies is designed for real-time sensor-level signal processing in large wireless sensor network environments. The high-performance sensor board provides has an onboard field programmable gate array (FPGa) and memory that allow for efficient implementation of flexible system structure and advanced signal-processing algorithms. An onboard radio provides added capability for self-localization. This technology overcomes the bandwidth and processing limitations in large wireless sensor networks, which may be deployed for real-time situation awareness and surveillance applications.
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