Radiocrafts AS, a leading supplier of wireless RF modules for communication in the license-free frequency bands, and Sensinode Ltd., a pioneering/commercial supplier of solutions for IPv6 over wireless mesh networks, today launch a new platform for integrating the Internet with
Monthly Archives: January 2008
January 31, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Radiocrafts AS and Sensinode Ltd. announce 6LoWPAN wireless IPv6-network solutions
January 30, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Sun SPOT project has gone open source
Sun announced that the Sun SPOT project has gone open source. It’s now available at http://spots.dev.java.net. Additionally they announced widespread availability of Sun SPOTs (36 countries and counting) as well as deep discounts for education (see the Sun educational sales
January 29, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Vest May Help Understand Causes of Asthma Attacks
Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a sensor system that continuously monitors the air around persons prone to asthma attacks. Worn in the pockets of a vest, the new system could help researchers understand the causes
January 28, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Arduino and XBee Battery Test Results
Some real-world battery life results for Arduino projects and XBee mesh networking radios have been published. Use them to help choose which battery setup is right for your project. All tests have been performed at room temperature with nominally fresh
January 25, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | 1 Comment
Presentation on Sentilla
Joe Polastre, co-founder and CTO of Sentilla, gave a presentation on Pervasive Computing with Java at the latest Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days. Sentilla is about making the real world — and everything in it — smarter, with software
January 25, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Squark JVM is now Open Source
Yesterday at the Java ME developer days Sun announced that the Squawk JVM has been made open source. For those of you keeping track, this is the JVM used in Sun SPOTs motes. The code and more info are available
January 24, 2008 by Muneeb Ali | 7 Comments
In Memory of Cormac Duffy
We recently got to know about the untimely and tragic death of a fellow sensornets researcher Cormac Duffy. Cormac was working towards his PhD at Univ. College Cork, Ireland and his representative works include “Adding Preemption to TinyOS” (EmNets’07) and
January 24, 2008 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
EWSN Tutorial: Computing in the Real World with Java
Speaker: Joe Polastre, Sentilla ltd. (USA) Abstract: Pervasive Computing is about making the real world — and everything in it — smarter, through the use of small, wireless, battery-powered computers (often called “motes”) that can be put anywhere or attached
January 22, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
WSN in China
The December 2007 issue of IEEE Wireless Communications features an interesting paper on “China’s national research project on wireless sensor networks”, by Ni, L.M.; Liu, Y.; Zhu, Y. It describes the National 973 project in China that was launched in
January 22, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
From 7.5th floor: Data management in the worldwide sensor web draws the big picture in mentioning that now too much attention has been placed on the networking issues of distributed sensing and too little on tools to manage, analyze and
