An earthquake engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has successfully performed the first test of wireless sensors in the simulated structural control of a model laboratory building. Shirley J. Dyke, Ph.D., the Edward C. Dicke Professor of Civil Engineering
Yearly Archives: 2007
December 25, 2007 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
CFP RealWSN 2008
Interested in real world experiments or deployments of wireless sensor networks? Then ACM RealWSN is the event for you. This year RealWSN will be held in conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2008 (Glasgow, Scotland, April 1, 2008). We expect to attract
December 21, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Book: Ultra Low Energy Wireless Sensor Networks in Practice
Finally a book on Wireless Sensor Networks that covers real world applications and contains practical advice! Kuorilehto et al. have written the first practical guide to wireless sensor networks. The authors draw on their experience in the development and field-testing
December 21, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Sensors of the Future Will Create The Matrix
The Matrix trilogy was one long paean to data visualization. As we all know, it began with the premise that life was a sophisticated simulation, virtual reality taken to the civilizational level. Except for a few Matrix die-hards that I’m
December 20, 2007 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
INCC 2008
The Int’l Networking and Communications Conference (INCC) 2008 will be held in Lahore, Pakistan from May 1-4, 2008. Pakistan is amongst the top-4 emerging markets, with one of the largest telecommunications market in the world. The conference will feature not
December 19, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | 1 Comment
Security Related Codes for TinyOS & Mote
Following are some security related codes for TinyOS: TinyECC: Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Sensor Networks TinyECC 1.0 is a software package providing ECC-based PKC operations that can be flexibly configured and integrated into sensor network applications. It provides a digital
December 17, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
New Products: One RF Technology and Daintree Networks partner to accelerate ZigBee development
One RF Technology, front-runners of European ZigBee technology, and Daintree Networks, Inc., a leader in ZigBee Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA) software, have announced a partnership to offer ZigBee developers a powerful new solution. More information can be found here.
December 14, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | 1 Comment
AIR: Area’s Immediate Reading
AIR is a public, social experiment in which people are invited to use Preemptive Media’s portable air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots. Participants or “carriers” are able to see
December 13, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | 1 Comment
XBee Wall Router Makes it Easy to Deploy and Extend ZigBee Networks
Digi International today introduced the XBee wall router, a ZigBee router used to expand a ZigBee network’s range. By plugging into standard power sockets, XBee wall routers are easy-to-install building blocks for self-healing ZigBee networks and ideal for creating robust
December 13, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | 2 Comments
Choosing the best system software architecture for your wireless smart sensor design: Part 2
From Embedded.com, the second part of the article by Anton Hristozov: Any operating system strives to provide a framework for convenient and easy application software development. Through the use of multitasking and hardware abstractions, an operating system is useful to
