The Summer School on WSN and Cooperating Objects been held in University Residence Center in Bertinoro, Italy, started yesterday with an interesting talk from Andrew Campbell from Dartmouth College. His talk, also delivered as a keynote address at PerCom 2009,
Monthly Archives: July 2009
July 27, 2009 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
SPOTWeb and Sensor.Network
From Vipul Gupta’s Weblog: Sun SPOTs are tiny, battery-powered, wireless computers that can be programmed in Java. Different types of sensors (e.g. GPS, temperature, humidity, proximity, light) and actuators (e.g. servos, motors) can be attached to these devices for use
July 27, 2009 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Google Internet Summit 2009: The State of the Internet
Wireless and Sensor Technologies Session. Panelists for this session are Craig Partridge, Larry Alder, Sumit Agarwal, Kevin Fall, and Deborah Estrin. On May 5 and 6, 2009, in Mountain View, Goole brought together leaders from academia and the corporate world
July 27, 2009 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Plug & Play Environmental Sensor Nets
From dailywireless.org: Crossbow Technology, a leading supplier of wireless sensor technology, announced the release of an Environmental Sensor Bus development platform. The plug-and-play architecture hooks to a wide range of sensors with ease analogous to USB, says the company. The ESB
July 24, 2009 by Antonio Ruzzelli | No comments
Intel joins IPSO Alliance to push IP smart devices
An alliance of companies promoting embedded Internet Protocol in smart devices, like military sensors and home appliances, has added 12 new member organizations including Intel Corp. The Internet Protocol for Smart Objects (IPSO) Alliance, formed in September 2008, evangelizes the
July 21, 2009 by Antonio Ruzzelli | No comments
Sensor networks should lean on lamp-posts, says researcher
Researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory are making use of lamp-posts to create an urban monitor wireless network. As part of a research program called TIME, Transport Information Monitoring Environment, the Computer Lab has built a lamp-post loaded
July 15, 2009 by Antonio Ruzzelli | No comments
Cross Reality: When Sensors Meet Virtual Reality
During my recent visit to MIT in Boston I met with Joseph Paradiso, Associate Professor and Director of the Responsive Environments Group at MIT Media Laboratory. He showed me some demos of what his lab is up to, focusing mostly
July 15, 2009 by Antonio Ruzzelli | No comments
Dust Networks Introduces the SA-600 Wireless Sensor Networking Solution
HAYWARD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dust Networks®, the leading supplier of embedded wireless sensor networking (WSN) solutions, introduced the SmartMesh® SA-600 system today at Intersolar North America, a major trade show for the global solar market. The SmartMesh SA-600 system enables customers to
July 14, 2009 by Claro Noda | No comments
ISSNIP’09 deadlines extended!
The Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing ISSNIP 2009, held under the umbrella of the ARCResearch Network on ISSNIP, is an annual forum for sensor network research. Leading researchers in the field will present recent
July 09, 2009 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
FeedNetback Workshop 2009
The European Project FeedNetback is organising its Annual Workshop on the 23rd of September 2009, in Venice, Italy in conjunction with the IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems NecSys’09. The FeedNetback project aims to close the control
