The DASH7 Alliance, a non-profit industry consortium that promotes the ISO 18000-7 standard for wireless sensor networking, just announced the DASH7 Authorised Test Equipment program, providing DASH7 device developers with a common test equipment platform for ensuring interoperability across all
Category Archives: wsn-development
NI Announces Availability of First DASH7 Authorized Platform
Intro to DASH7 Mode 2.0
DASH7 Webinar on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM PDT (GMT – 7) DASH7 Mode 2 is a new, low-power wireless technology that takes the strong-points of traditional DASH7 (i.e. Mode 1) and makes them even stronger,
DASH7 Alliance Announces Standard Update
The DASH7 Alliance, a non-profit industry consortium that promotes the use of the ISO 18000-7 standard for wireless sensor networking, today announced the release of an updated specification for the ISO 18000-7 standard for wireless sensor networking that enables tag-to-tag
Internet of Things Takes Cisco I-Prize
From ReadWriteWeb Rhinnovation, a group of Mexican university students, created the “Life Account,” a melding of the Internet of Things and social media to win Cisco’s second I-Prize. The Life Account is a platform that gathers information about users through
Energy Harvesting Solutions
Semicon West 2010, quite prominent technology exhibition show and networking event in the industry, will be held in Moscone Center in San Fracisco, CA on July 13-15. A session entitled: Micro Manufacturing for Micro Energy Systems: Progress in Energy Harvesting,
ContikiRPL went public
The Contiki team is happy to announce that ContikiRPL has been made public! ContikiRPL is an open-source implementation of RPL – the proposed standard routing protocol for IPv6 in low-power and lossy networks. Read on for details on how to
Trend Watch Sensor Survey
Design engineers assessment of sensor market evolution reveals Wireless Sensor Networks as the hotest sensor technology, with 60 percent of the respondents saying that they see WSN heating up in the next 12-18 months, thanks to greater reliability and easy-to-use,
RadiaLE
Link reliability is an important metric for WSN but the nature of RF propagation and the congestion of ISM bands makes link stability a hard guess. However, the flexibility and economy that low-power wireless networks promise are bringing increasing efforts
EWSN 2010/CONET Scientific Awards
The CONET Master and PhD Thesis Awards were handed over last month during the conference dinner at EWSN 2010, orginized by the University of Coimbra. Results are as follows: Academic Master Thesis Award: Matthias Wilhelm for his work: “Implementation and
Contiki 2.4 Released
The Contiki team is proud to announce the release of version 2.4 of the Contiki operating system! Contiki 2.4 brings a number of new improvements over previous versions, several bugfixes, and an overall improved stability of the system. The low-power

