WSN Update

Octave Technology announced yesterday that the OCTAVEX Wireless Sensor Network middleware framework is now available for download from Octave Technology (http://www.octavetech.com/solutions/octavex.html). They are providing a BETA version of the product free of charge for testing and evaluation purposes, and welcome all feedback and questions.

The OCTAVEX Framework is a Web Services based Wireless Sensor Network middleware framework built using the Microsoft .NET platform. The goal of OCTAVEX is to create a scalable, reliable, easy to deploy and maintain platform for delivering wireless sensor data in a simple XML format. OCTAVEX is the bridge between low level sensor networks and advanced enterprise applications.

Some features of OCTAVEX include:

• enterprise quality software utilizing web-services architecture for scalability and ease of integration
  
• custom gateways that interfaces directly with the sensor network to calculate engineering values and publish data in a simple XML format. Current support for TinyOS based networks. Support for additional hardware available soon.
  
• built using the .NET platform, eliminating the need for UNIX emulators or complicated J2EE application server software
  
• a web-based GUI that utilizes AJAX technology, as used by Google Maps, to display real-time sensor and alert data, as it occurs.
  
• built-in business logic such as custom views, rule processing, alert delivery, data archiving, and historical data graphing
  
• automated installation and deployment scripts - all processes run as windows services or IIS web applications
  

OCTAVEX runs on any Windows based machine that supports the IIS Web Server, including Windows 2000, XP Pro, and Windows Server 2003. For a full description of the system requirements and installation steps, please refer to the OCTAVEX Getting Start Guide located at http://www.octavetech.com/octavex/documentation.html.

The evaluation version of the OCTAVEX Framework can be downloaded by going to http://www.octavetech.com/solutions/octavex.html. Questions or feedback can be sent to octavex@octavetech.com.

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