With a 1-week session in Tuscany, Italy on the Geo-Sensor Web with the presence of YDream’s Antonio Camara and UCSB’ Michael F. Goodchild. Geospatial information increasingly is being produced not only by central mapping agencies but by diverse and dispersed collections of sensors. How does this new data collection and dissemination paradigm affect the geospatial community, and vice versa? Sensor Web and citizen participatioon: what happens when citizens are able to deploy and exploit their own sensors? If the Sensor Web becomes as ubiquitous and successful (within its realm of influence) as the WWW, in what ways might it change the way we do things? What areas of high-inertia might be reduced? What as-of-yet unforeseen applications might emerge?

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GreenPeak Technologies, a leader in battery-free communication technology for wireless sense and control applications, today announced the GreenPeak Academy, an educational, training and consultancy platform for ultra low power wireless sensor networks.
GreenPeak initiated the platform to address growing corporate demand for know-how in developing and deploying ultra low power sense and control networks. The GreenPeak Academy training program is part of a high-quality, long-term commitment to providing world class training for the wireless sense and control industry, and facilitating widespread deployment of this emerging technology. It is also part of GreenPeak’s ongoing campaign to quickly train new staff, which is essential for supporting the GreenPeak team’s rapid growth. ”We see tremendous future growth in the wireless sense and control industry,” said Cees Links, GreenPeak’s CEO. “Ultra low power wireless solutions utilizing energy harvesting are the key to fueling this
growth.”

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Arch Rock Corp. has introduced the first wireless sensor network (WSN) to address large-scale enterprise applications by forming large, resilient IP-based WSNs and letting users centrally manage collections of those WSNs as an integral part of the enterprise IP infrastructure.
Arch Rock’s new PhyNet IP-based platform implements a tiered WSN architecture that eliminates the need to co-locate individual sensor networks with the server-based functions that control them by placing a scalable internetworking tier—the first “WSN router”—between them. Sensor applications can now reside half a world away, across a corporate campus or in the next room, communicating with any number of WSNs across local- or wide-area IP networks. Because PhyNet extends standard Internet Protocol (IP) technology from the enterprise infrastructure to the sensor network mesh and out to individual sensor nodes, those nodes can communicate directly with any other IP devices on the enterprise network regardless of their connection medium (IEEE 802.15.4 radio, 802.11 Wi-Fi, Ethernet, etc.). The PhyNet platform also applies to the IP-based WSN the vast body of standard and well tested IP tools for interoperability, management and security, eliminating the need to deploy dedicated and unproven schemes.

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