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.

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 ...

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 ...

Zaragoza, Spain – January 19th, 2010 – Libelium, a technology leader in distributed wireless networks, announces the launch of the Waspmote modular platform for wireless sensor networks. With radio ...

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 ...

Wireless systems are replacing wired data transmission to an increasing extent, especially in sensor networks and control applications, where the cost of installation or modifications are a ...

As a recent Network World article noted, wired sensor networks have been around for decades, with an array of gauges measuring temperature, fluid levels, humidity and other attributes on pipelines, ...

Bluetooth and ZigBee have much in common. Both are types of IEEE 802.15 “wireless personal-area networks,” or WPANs. Both run in the 2.4-GHz unlicensed frequency band, and both use small form factors ...

New Solution Powered with Location Detection Hardware by Motorola. Oslo, Norway, Schaumburg, IL - November 30 2005 – Chipcon AS, the world’s leading provider of low system cost, low power RF ...

Implementing a ZigBee wireless network has never been simpler thanks to the Texas Instruments CC2530ZNP (Fig. 1). Building a ZigBee product is a challenge because of the complexity of the ZigBee ...