Sensor nets and cognitive radio dominate IEEE wireless conference
Advanced modulation and RF transmission schemes are quickly moving from lab to field to solve real-world problems, speakers told last week’s IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium.
In discussions ranging from ultrawideband (UWB) personal-area networks to Wi-Fi meshes, academic researchers presented concrete examples of advanced wireless data and sensor networks addressing people’s needs around the globe.
While the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas formed a concurrent backdrop to the Radio and Wireless Symposium in Long Beach, Calif., the researchers had more on their minds than consumer markets.
Take Deborah Estrin, for example, of the University of California, Los Angeles. The principal researcher at the school’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, she demonstrated river and forest monitoring, showing how wireless sensor nets combine with actuators and robotics to form adaptive eyes for such tasks as precision agriculture and tracking species diversity.
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For an interesting lineup of technical sessions on ZigBee, UWB and Z-Wave technology, check out the upcoming Antenna Systems Conference, which will be co-located with the 2007 Short-Range Wireless Conference.
Check out the conference program at the following link …
http://www.antennasonline.com/ast07_program.html