Technologists have never had trouble coming up with potential applications for wireless sensors. In a home security system, for example, wireless sensors would be much easier to install than sensors ...

LONDON — Fabless semiconductor company Jennic has started sampling ZigBee development kits using its single chip IEEE802.15.4 device and protocol stacks from two of its partners. Jennic (Sheffield, ...

Matt Perkins serves as CTO for Awarepoint. Prior, he spent 10 years at Motorola as Technical Director of the Things-to-Things Research Center, where he was responsible for aligning business ...

Imagine a golf course that can sense rainfall, and adjust the automatic sprinkler system to delay a scheduled watering session or focus on parts of the course that didn’t get as much rain as others.

Wireless sensor devices depend on batteries so power management is essential for effective network operation. Waspmote offers four power modes - on, sleep, deep sleep and hibernation. In the hibernate ...

TOKYO – Oki Electric Industry began running an experimental ZigBee-based sensor network in Japan’s western port city of Kobe on Monday, the company said the same day. The company installed a network ...

It’s been quite some time since I mentioned ZigBee, the emerging low-cost sensor network based on IEEE 802.15.4 wireless standards in the 2.4 GHz band. Well, the ZigBee 1.0 specification is poised for ...

HAYWARD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dust Networks®, the leading supplier of wireless sensor networks (WSN), today announced that it has joined the ZigBee® Alliance. The ZigBee Alliance is an association ...

Mitsubishi Electric Tuesday said it intends to commercialize in 2007 ZigBee-based sensor networks that have location and positioning applications. Mitsubishi Electric Tuesday said it intends to ...

Zigbee networks work in the opposite manner from ordinary data networks. The tiny sensors need to be inexpensive with extremely low battery power, because they’re intended to be placed in devices at ...