http://www.wsnblog.com New products, books, conferences, papers, wsn for development Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:51:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Crossbow's blog: Back in March some researchers at UC Berkeley released an Open Source implementation of IPv6 running on TinyOS 2.x called BLIP (Berkeley Low-power Internet Protocol). BLIP is a work in progress.  It is currently fully supported on the TelosB platform and works on MICAz when compiled in a memory-constrained mode.  It is being ... http://www.wsnblog.com/2009/07/02/in-a-blip-pervasive-ip-has-arrived/ This is a WSN workshop collocated with NTMS'2009, the Third International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security that will be held from 20 to 23 December 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. It seeks original contributions in the following topics (theory and practice): Real-time OS and middleware support, Energy-efficient hardware, Cross-layer design ... http://www.wsnblog.com/2009/07/01/wsn-theory-and-practice/ EWSN 2010, the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, is the seventh of a series of annual meetings focusing on the latest research in the area of wireless sensor networks. This year it will be held at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, on 17-19 February, 2010. The CFP is already ... http://www.wsnblog.com/2009/06/30/ewsn-2010/ In a recent contest between University of Michigan College of Engineering and Ohio State University undergrad students came up with a WSN proposal claimed to detect suicide bombers. The News Site from UM has the article. http://www.wsnblog.com/2009/06/29/um-osu-university-challenge/ Contiki 2.3 is now available. It brings a new IPv6 routing layer, IPv6/6lowpan for the Tmote Sky platform, the Cooja TimeLine, a set of new shell commands, improvements to the LPP and X-MAC power-saving radio protocols, a new port to the MSB430 platform, and a Twitter client. The release also includes ... http://www.wsnblog.com/2009/06/28/contiki-2-3/ EnerPak from TPL Inc is a sophisticated power management and energy storage system for energy harvesting-powered wireless sensors that have moderate power needs due to high data rate, the need to support a mesh network topology, or complex data measurement requirements. It features dynamic peak power tracking, a broad operating ... http://www.wsnblog.com/2009/06/26/enerpak-harvesting-power-management-for-wireless-sensors/ The 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks 2009 (SSN09) to be collocated with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2009 which be held on 25-29 October 2009, Washington DC, USA The goal of this workshop is to develop an understanding of the ways semantic web technologies, including ontologies, agent ... http://www.wsnblog.com/2009/06/25/semantic-sensor-networks-2009/ Soon after joining Twitter, @WSNBlog has 100+ followers. Seems like Twitter is catching on with the readers of WSNBlog. http://www.wsnblog.com/2009/06/24/twitter/ In conjunction with PDCAT'09 December 8-11, 2009, Hiroshima, Japan Following the success of the first SeNAmI at PDCAT 2008 in Dunedin, New Zealand, this workshop once again aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry to present and discuss recent trends and advances in sensor networks and ambient intelligence, and from ... http://www.wsnblog.com/2009/06/24/senaml-2009/ Ever wished attending seminars and conferences was less of a hassle and cheaper? Well it can be with Second Life. Cisco recently announced a seminar on the "Internet of Things" that will be held in the Second Life virtual world. More information here. http://www.wsnblog.com/2009/06/23/second-life-seminar-on-the-internet-of-things/