Agile-Link wireless nodes can now stream data at rates up to 4 kHz. This increase in sample rate allows them to be used in automotive testing applications, such as impact and crash testing and vibration monitoring and modal analysis. The
Monthly Archives: February 2007
February 12, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Wearable technology: Fact or fiction?
The US Army was one of the first to recognise the potential applications for wearable technology and developed the Land Warrior system. This was designed to increase the ability of its fighters on the battlefield with each soldier connected to
February 12, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Jennic takes Anglia into wireless applications
Jennic franchise takes Anglia into wireless applications In its first move into the Industrial Security Medical (ISM) wireless market. Anglia has signed a franchise agreement with Jennic to distribute their innovative single chip JN5121 2.4 GHz RF microcontroller that is
February 09, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | 1 Comment
New ways to access the blog
The wsnblog team implemented new ways for you to access this blog. You can: · Subscribe to the RSS feed. Users of RSS content use programs called feed ‘readers’ or ‘aggregators’: the user ‘subscribes’ to a feed by supplying to
February 08, 2007 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
EWSN 2007 follow up
EWSN’07 is over and for those who missed the event the conference presentation slides and pictures are available from the EWSN’07 website. It was announced at the conference that EWSN’08 would be held in Italy around the same time next
February 08, 2007 by Muneeb Ali | 2 Comments
The Contiki Workshop 2007
Watch out for the first international Contiki workshop in Stockholm, Sweden on the 26-27 March 2007! Contiki is an open source, highly portable, multi-tasking operating system for memory-constrained networked embedded systems like sensor networks. All Contiki developers, researchers, users, programmers,
February 07, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Energy harvesting modules unveiled for wireless sensor nets
Advanced Linear Devices announces the industry’s first energy harvesting modules designed specifically to capture, accumulate and store power from a variety of energy harvesting sources and supply it to wireless sensor networks, remote controls and a multitude of other applications.
February 05, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Release of Tiered Sensor Network (Tenet) Software
The Tenet project has made a public release of the Tenet software v1.0. Tenet is software for flexibly programming a tiered network of sensors. Tiered networks consist of motes and masters (PC-class devices, such as Stargate, that run Linux or
February 05, 2007 by Claro Noda | 1 Comment
Microchip now provides an 802.15.4 radio chip
Microchip Technology, the only company providing an open source ZigBee protocol implementation, has now released their first 2.4 GHz radio transceiver. The MRF24J40 is intended for the 802.15.4 chip market and can now be used with the company’s zero-cost-license and royalty-free
February 03, 2007 by Claro Noda | No comments
Extreme Fun at IPSN ’07
The Sixth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN ’07) will be hosting an Extreme Sensing competition in Cambridge, Massashusetts, on April 25-27, 2007. Teams will need to build a sensor system, using five sensors or less, to count people
