Intel Goes to School - Chip maker looks to academia for ideas
MARCH 28, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - On Maine's Great Duck Island, scientists studying small sea birds called Leach's storm petrels are using a network of tiny wireless sensors embedded in the birds' nests to gather information. The sensors, or "motes," are used to monitor environmental conditions around the nesting burrows. One day, they could form the basis for intelligent wireless networks capable of harvesting a wide range of information from their surroundings. Applications could be as diverse as agricultural management, earthquake monitoring and military operations.
A group of researchers at an Intel Corp.-funded lab at the University of California, Berkeley, is investigating that possibility and many others.
"We are trying to prototype a future in which there are many, many small sensor devices that are able to get a very fine physical sensing of the real world," says professor Joseph Hellerstein, director of the Intel lab at Berkeley.
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A group of researchers at an Intel Corp.-funded lab at the University of California, Berkeley, is investigating that possibility and many others.
"We are trying to prototype a future in which there are many, many small sensor devices that are able to get a very fine physical sensing of the real world," says professor Joseph Hellerstein, director of the Intel lab at Berkeley.
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