Porto, Portugal 2-9 March 2008 The goal of the summer school of KDubiq is to establish a common ground for the integration of the involved fields and to support the formation of a new community. Starting with an introduction into
Yearly Archives: 2007
December 12, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
The 2nd European Summer School on Knowledge Discovery for Ubiquitous Computing
December 12, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Nokia’s Eco Sensor concept gets right with the greens
The Nokia Eco Sensor concept device consists of two parts: a wearable mobile phone (duh, it’s Nokia) with giant display and a remote sensing unit which keeps tabs on your health and external environment. Nokia research envisions that the sensor
December 12, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Jennic Launches JenNet Stack for Scalable Wireless Sensor Networks
Jennic Ltd. has introduced JenNet, a new proprietary wireless networking stack for its powerful range of 32 bit single chip wireless micro-controllers, and new user-friendly programming interfaces, Jenie and AT-Jenie. More information can be found here.
December 08, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
MSPsim – a Java-based simulator of MSP430 sensor network platforms
MSPsim is a Java-based instruction level emulator of the MSP430 series microprocessor and emulation of some sensor networking platforms. Supports loading of IHEX and ELF firmware files, and has some tools for monitoring stack, setting breakpoints, and profiling. Software development
December 06, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Project Sun SPOT Request for Research Proposals
With a request for Research Proposals, a SunSPOT-based application competition and educational discounts, SUN Microsystems is pushing the adoption of SunSPOT sensor nodes in academia. Research proposal deadline is approaching. More details can be found here.
December 06, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
What does ZigBee Pro mean for your application?
Following a reputation for not being as power sensitive as some designers would like, in October 2007, the ZigBee Alliance announced an expanded a set of features for the ZigBee protocol. For networks of more than 50 nodes, ZigBee Pro
December 06, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Choosing the best system software architecture for your wireless smart sensor design
From Embedded.com, another interesting article by Anton Hristozov The smart sensors used in wireless industrial and building automation applications are often characterized by energy restrictions, small CPUs, and small memory footprints. The limited resources of the hardware make special applications
December 05, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Arch Rock and Hitachi Demo 6LoWPAN Interoperability
Wireless sensor network vendor Arch Rock Corp. has joined with Hitachi, Ltd., and Renesas Technology Corp. to demonstrate the interoperability of their IETF 6LoWPAN (RFC 4944) implementations at the Seventieth IETF meeting today in Vancouver. The demo shows Arch Rock’s
December 04, 2007 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
Contiki 2.1 with Energy Profiling
The Contiki team has just released version 2.1 of the open source Contiki operating system for low-power, wireless, memory-constrained networked embedded devices that typically have as little as a few kilobytes of RAM. The major highlight of this release is
December 04, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
The MISC December newsletter
The MISC December newsletter is available for download. In this issue: environmental monitoring with WSN.
