Building on its unsurpassed global IP network, wireless resources, network integration, consulting and managed service expertise, AT&T Inc. today announced three new sensor-based networking solutions that enable businesses to track a wide array of valuable resources in real time, including:

– AT&T Mobile Resource Management
– AT&T RFID Asset Visibility
– AT&T managed passive RFID solution

The new AT&T services are designed for use by businesses, government agencies and organizations of nearly any size, enabling the real-time tracking and sensor analysis of a wide range of potential assets, including inventory, healthcare assets, product in transit, fleets or field force personnel. The solutions, available today nationwide in the U.S., allow customers to take advantage of the business benefits of sensor-based networking without substantial investments in equipment or in-house expertise.

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A LOW-COST network of remote sensors developed by the CSIRO has been deployed in Queensland, and more will be field-tested in Tasmania and Western Australia in coming months. The sensors, which could become an integral part of the Howard Government’s $10 billion national water plan, are designed to provide wireless environmental monitoring in remote areas.

Powered by solar cells and reprogrammed by radio waves, the CSIRO sensors are designed to reduce irrigation costs and inefficient use of water. In the Queensland project, five sensor measurement nodes and two relay nodes have been installed in the Burdekin Irrigation Area.

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