Ambient Intelligence (AmI) technology holds great promise in permeating everyday life by changing the nature of almost every human activity. Research in the past few years has indicated that the realization of AmI vision requires the development of systems that
Monthly Archives: July 2008
July 31, 2008 by Tiago Camilo | No comments
CFP: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
July 31, 2008 by Tiago Camilo | No comments
Active RFID and Sensor Networks Report
This IDTechEx report comprehensively analyzes the technologies, players and markets with detailed ten year forecasts, including tag numbers, unit prices and interrogator numbers and prices. Details of over 75 active RFID implementations are given along with over 100 suppliers and
July 30, 2008 by Antonio Ruzzelli | No comments
IETF-72 – Dublin July 2008
The 72nd IETF meeting is now in progress in the Dublin area and is gathering something like 1200 people. Interesting to sensor networks are the 6LowPan and ROLL Working Group Meetings. These working groups address routing standardisation processes of the
July 27, 2008 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
Protothreads and C++
Ben Hoyt has implemented Protothreads as a C++ class that is easy to use. He has a written a piece on protothreads in C++. From the post: “What protothreads give you is the ability to write procedural, thread-style code, but
July 26, 2008 by Claro Noda | No comments
WirelessHART is coming…
WirelessHART is the first open wireless communication standard specifically designed for process measurement and control applications. Its specs were ratified last September 2007 and, despite lengthy certification process, compatible devices are expected to be in the market this year. Here
July 24, 2008 by Tiago Camilo | No comments
The longest running sensor network @ CSIRO
The longest running sensor network was a “significant first step” in being able to record environmental conditions across extremely large and challenging environments, CSIRO scientist Tim Wark said. The network, based at the Brisbane ICT Centre, can measure variables such
July 23, 2008 by Tiago Camilo | No comments
Release of b6loWPAN Stack
The Berkeley wireless sensor network group has made its 6lowpan implementation publicly available in tinyos-2.x-contrib/berkeley/b6lowpan. It adds IPv6 support to TinyOS, and supports address stateless autoconfiguration, multihop routing, and fragmentation for an MTU of 1280 bytes, among other things. Standard
July 23, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Open research positions at CISTER/IPP-HURRAY Research Unit
The CISTER/IPP-HURRAY Research Unit (www.hurray.isep.ipp.pt) invites applications for Research Scientist positions to develop research in the area of Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems. This/These research positions will correspond to a 5-years research contract. Area: Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems Application
July 22, 2008 by Tiago Camilo | No comments
Release of MAC Layer Architecture for TinyOS 2.0.2
Washington University’s Wireless Sensor Network group has released a version of the MAC Layer Architecture (MLA) for TinyOS 2.0.2. MLA defines a component-based architecture for MAC protocols in wireless sensor networks. MLA consists of hardware-independent interfaces required by timing sensitive
July 16, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Call For papers: Special Issue on “Data Quality Management in Wireless Sensor Networks”
As new fabrication and integration technologies reduce the cost and size of wireless sensors, the observation and control of our physical world will expand dramatically using the temporally and spatially dense monitoring afforded by wireless sensor networks technology. Several applications
