Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Moteiv: Better than Fairy Dust

Wi-Fi Planet has a great article on Moteiv Corp., a San Francisco based wireless sensor network company. Their latest product, the TMote Mini, is smaller and less expensive than any other mote (wireless sensor nodes) on the market. The TMote Minies even have a miniSD slot that can fit into a smart phone or PDA, allowing for a limitless number of creative application deployments.

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Friday, June 22, 2007

Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Nodes

Microstrain has a line of Energy Harvesting wireless sensor nodes that can operate indefinitely without the use of batteries. They are designed to run at low levels of DC power that is generated using piezoelectric materials and solar panels.

Products such as this will make the prediction of truly umbiquitous computing a reality in years to come. Not having to change the batteries is a huge step in this direction.

Microstrain has a nice white paper on the subject here.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

World's Largest Internet Enabled, Wireless Mesh Sensor Network for Agriculture

Grape Networks has announced that the Company has deployed the World's largest Wireless Sensor Network for agriculture in the Central Valley of California.

Now that wireless sensor technology is starting to catch on commercially, it will be exiting to see how many other large scale deployments get publicized - and how soon someone will be able to top Grape's feat of 200 sensor nodes over 50 acres.


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