Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Wireless Sensor Adoption Expected to Grow Tenfold

RFID Journal has a nice summary of ON World's recent report, "WSN for Smart Industries". Here are some of the main points:
  • Currently 1 in 3 industrial companies are using wireless sensor & control technologies
  • Nearly HALF intend on doing so over the next 18 months
  • The market will reach $4.6 Billion by 2011, up from $500 Million today
  • 40% are using the technology for machine health
The article also discusses the three emerging standards - Zigbee, WirelessHART, and ISA 100.

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Saturday, September 22, 2007

Single Chip Wireless Sensor

ChipSensors, an Irish start-up fabless semiconductor company, has developed a wireless sensor that is contained within a single chip. The chip includes fully integrated signal conditioning, microcontroller, memory and RF transceiver functions, while the surface of the chip can sense information about the environment, such as light, temperature, humidity or gases.

This is a big step forward towards miniaturizing wireless sensor nodes, ultimately driving towards true (still somewhat fictional) "smart dust".

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