Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Feb 10, 2012, 12:31 pm
The third international workshop on the Web of Things (WoT 2012) will be held in conjunction with the tenth international conference on pervasive computing (Pervasive 2012) in Newcastle, UK, June 18-22, 2012. Continuing the successful Web of Things workshop series, this workshop aims at further exp...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Feb 9, 2012, 4:10 am
In 2011 the market for energy harvesters reached US$700 million, with the majority of the value going into consumerelectronic applications, where energy harvesters have been used for some time. Approximately 1.6 million energy harvesters were used in wireless sensors, resulting in $13.75 million be...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Feb 8, 2012, 4:06 am
From Digi’s blog: The Iridium satellite network now supports the iDigi Device Cloud. This means that Digi devices with an Iridium data transceiver inside can now send and receive data via iDigi over the Iridium network. The Iridium network is the world’s furthest-reaching network, so this capa...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Feb 6, 2012, 5:27 am
IPSN 2012 – the 11th ACM/IEEE Int. Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Network (co-located with CPSWEEK 2012) – will host a Ph.D. Forum on sensor network Research. The Forum will provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students to present their dissertation research, including work in pr...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Feb 2, 2012, 3:42 am
What if you could use your phone to test the air for toxins? What if you could monitor your health simply by blowing on it? Sounds amazing, right? Nanosensor technology developed by NASA Ames is going to make that a reality. Jing Li, a scientist at NASA Ames, has been working for years on what will...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Feb 2, 2012, 3:39 am
A fighter pilot heads back to base after a long mission, feeling spent. A warning light flashes on the control panel. Has she noticed? If so, is she focused enough to fix the problem? Thanks to current advances in electroencephalographic (EEG) brain-wave detection technology, military commanders ...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Feb 1, 2012, 3:29 am
Internet of things becomes more and more intersteing. But what does Internet of Things really mean? The answer is simple: more connected devices such ad TV, DVD playes, cars and, of course, smartphones and tablets. With Flyport, Internet of Things is more closer to you! Why?! Well, because, with Fl...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Feb 1, 2012, 3:21 am
The new e-Learning platform enables system integrators worldwide to accelerate time to market for ZigBee sensor network projects and applications. Commonly encountered engineering issues such as configuring the ZigBee network or connecting sensors to the Waspmote board will be solved in both modalit...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Jan 30, 2012, 9:12 am
It’s heralded as TNBT (the next big thing), high on any self respecting futurist’s to do list for 2012. Yet industry insidersremain sceptical that the Internet of Things (IoT) will reach fruition, this year, at least. They cite costs, technical prowess, planning and government support as some o...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Jan 25, 2012, 6:47 am
From Wired: Whenever I pick up a package of frozen raw meat from the grocery store, I wonder, “Has this been frozen the whole time? How many times did it thaw and re-freeze?” It’s a disquieting thought, especially because there’s currently no easy way to tell. But it looks like the ambigui...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Jan 24, 2012, 6:39 am
What if every device in your home had its own Internet IP address? At the 2012 International CES, NXP Semiconductors  and Belkin International, Inc. will demonstrate a “smart home” network that allows you to control light bulbs — each with its own IPv6 address — using a smartphone or tablet...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Jan 24, 2012, 5:53 am
Two research positions in the fields of Cooperating Objects, Cyber-Physical Systems & Sensor Networks are available at the Research Centre on Real-Time Computing Systems (CISTER). The Centre is currently looking to strengthen its research team in the CONET NoE research clusters and SENODs project o...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Jan 20, 2012, 4:10 am
From Engadget: Because deep down, all you’ve ever really wanted are smartphone adjustable WiFi-LED light tubes controlled by a remote server out in the ether. Snarkiness aside, that’s exactly what Japan’s Net LED Technology Corporation has done with a lighting system it lovingly calls Net...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Jan 19, 2012, 3:36 am
China has developed a sensor work that will shorten the fire detection lead time to less than five minutes. A test run of the system was successfully conducted recently in the forest area in Qingyuan prefecture, Guangdong province. While forests play an important role in global climate and environ...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Nov 1, 2011, 5:42 am
Thinfilm, a Norwegian developer of printable memory, has co-announced with California’s PARC a development that takes a big step towards the day when every manufactured object will report in to the internet. Yes, the “internet of things” – the buzzword of the decade. Thinfilm and PARC‘...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Nov 1, 2011, 5:40 am
From Forbes: “People want to go on the Internet and check out their friends. So why not build a web site that offers that. Friends, pictures, profiles. I’m talking about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online.” –Mark Zuckerberg, via “The Social Network” T...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 27, 2011, 4:29 am
The Department of Computer Engineering, University of Ghana in conjunction with the International Centre of Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the Association of African Universities (AAU) will organise a four days workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) on 5th – 8th December in Accra, at the ICT D...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 27, 2011, 4:25 am
Zero power wireless sensors are now available, which bring together new low power wireless ICs with energy harvesters (which harvest energy from heat, light or motion, for example) and the appropriate form of energy storage and conditioning. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) could involve billions of ...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 26, 2011, 7:33 am
The IPSO Alliance wrapped up a full week of successful IP-related events including a two-day interoperability test, public member product demonstration, and informative member meeting.  ”This has been a great week for the IPSO Alliance.  We’ve shown the viability of using IP to bring together ...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 26, 2011, 7:16 am
The new Vehicle Traffic Monitoring Platform from Libelium allows to create real time systems for monitoring vehicular and pedestrian traffic in cities by using the new Bluetooth – ZigBee double radio feature available in the Waspmote sensor board. The platform is capable of sensing the flow of Blu...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 25, 2011, 7:18 am
From a distance, standing on the windy ridge in Las Trampas Regional Park, the space-age contraption surrounded by a chain link fence looks out of place in the middle of swaying grass and a herd of grazing cows. But this array of sensors, hooked up to a central computer, is playing an integral role ...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 24, 2011, 4:08 am
The Chines government has planned total investment of CNY3,860 billion (US$603 billion) to develop the country’s Internet of Things industry until 2020, China-based 21st Century Business Herald cited China R&D Center for Internet of Things (CIT-China) as indicating. The value of Internet of Thi...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 24, 2011, 4:08 am
The agreement is key for the M2M business, as it means collaborating along the entire value chain, from the development of standards to the joint development of end to end M2M vertical products and the commercialisation of solutions. It represents a further step forward in the strategic alliance sig...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 24, 2011, 4:05 am
Mirko Presser: “About a year ago, I started working on a – then new – European project called the Internet of Things Initiative (IoT-i) on a topic that was supposed to find strategically important IoT applications. We managed to gather about 150 application scenarios, short texts describing an...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 20, 2011, 4:38 am
FedEx Chief Information Officer Robert Carter said the company’s big bet is that sensors and the Internet of things will dominate its mobility strategy in the future. Speaking at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando on Wednesday, Carter covered a lot of ground ranging from service-oriented architectu...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 19, 2011, 7:04 am
Libelium has launched a new video showing the capabilities of the Gases Sensor Board for the Waspmote platform. Some of the gas sensors which can be included in the board are Carbon Monoxide – CO, Carbon Dioxide – CO2, Oxygen – O2, Methane – CH4, Hydrogen – H2, Ammonia – NH3, Hydrogen Su...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 19, 2011, 4:25 am
Sensinode  today announced release of the NanoService™ Platform, a highly-scalable backend management platform. The NanoService™ Platform is designed to enable the rapid deployment of challenging M2M systems by providing efficient management of nodes and their resources and allowing application...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 17, 2011, 6:55 am
The CPS Week 2012 (Cyber-Physical Systems Week) in Beijing will include a workshop and tutorial day on April 16, 2012. Each workshop will provide an arena for presentations and discussions about a special topic of relevance to CPS Week. Each tutorial will present in-depth content in a mini-course fo...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 15, 2011, 7:07 am
US-based security company Lockheed Martin has launched a new wireless sensor network system called the Self-Powered Ad-hoc Network (SPAN) which consists of ground sensors. The sensors are small and can be easily camouflaged according to the surroundings thus enabling continuous surveillance of the s...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 15, 2011, 7:06 am
ZigBee Alliance Fall 2011 Members Meeting – OPEN TO PUBLIC – October 28 2011 – Barcelona, Spain This free public workshop will provide attendees the opportunity to exchange wireless sensor network (WSN) information on standards, markets and projects, with a particular focus on the European ma...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 14, 2011, 9:49 am
This year, ERCIM has exceptionally selected two winners for the Cor Baayen Award: Stratos Idreos, researcher in the Database Architectures group of CWI and Luca Mottola, researcher in the Networked Embedded Systems Group at SICS. Luca Mottola, researcher and former ERCIM fellow at SICS. His res...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 11, 2011, 1:46 pm
A company called the Climate Corporation was formed in 2006 by two former Google employees who wanted to make use of the vast amount of free data published by the National Weather Service on heat and precipitation patterns around the country. At first they called the company WeatherBill, and used ...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 6, 2011, 5:08 am
There are some very exciting high growth projections for wireless sensing for the Automation industry. More sensors mean more process efficiency, lower operating costs, lower maintenance costs, higher reliability, and greater safety. Wireless sensing provides the opportunity to install masses of sen...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 4, 2011, 9:28 am
Researchers from the University of California at Merced were awarded a $2 million federal grant to develop a revolutionary network for tracking the Sierra snowpack as the climate changes. The National Science Foundation money will support a four-year project to install a massive web of wireless sen...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 3, 2011, 10:33 am
Cities could soon be looking after their citizens all by themselves thanks to an operating system designed for the metropolis. The Urban OS works just like a PC operating system but keeps buildings, traffic and services running smoothly. The software takes in data from sensors dotted around the ci...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Oct 3, 2011, 4:32 am
From Postscapes: The Pervasive Computing center was launched in September 2011 by Intel and will be centered at the University of Washington. Research in the ISTC-PC will be organized around three themes: Low-power sensing and communication Understanding human state and activities Personalizati...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Sep 30, 2011, 6:36 am
Some of the latest research applications in wearable and ubiquitous technology were submitted and presented at EMBC’s UnConference this year. All entries submitted a project abstract and many have included a short demo video illustrating the research and technology in action.  The videos provide...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Sep 30, 2011, 4:49 am
From GigaOM: It may be difficult to describe what exactly the phrase “an internet of things” means, but the pieces of the puzzle that are required for that to develop are all here today, ThingM CEO Mike Kuniavsky told attendees at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference in San Francisco. Those puzzle p...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Sep 27, 2011, 10:06 am
Wearable sensors collect data from athletes as they’re playing—data that could soon be broadcast during the game. Statistics in sports is about to hit a whole new level. A new generation of wearable monitors that measure heart rate, electrical activity in the heart, lung capacity, metabolism, a...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Sep 27, 2011, 4:46 am
SENSORNETS 2012, February  24 – 26, 2012, Rome, Italy Current developments show that in the near future the wide availability of low cost, short range radio technology, along with advances in wireless networking, will enable wireless adhoc sensor networks to become commonly deployed. In these ...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Sep 27, 2011, 4:38 am
Texas Instruments, the industry leader in highly integrated wireless connectivity solutions, today introduced new sub-1 GHz 6LoWPAN solutions, aimed at providing a gateway for remote, low-cost wireless sensors to connect to the Internet and a wireless extension of wired IPv6 infrastructures. By oper...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Sep 26, 2011, 4:20 am
A team of researchers at Sweden’s Luleå University of Technology have been inspired by the nervous system of fruit flies to develop advanced wireless sensors. The university researchers have begun work on a four year research project to develop sensors that can be used in the monitoring of machi...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Sep 26, 2011, 4:14 am
The 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks April 2012, Beijing, China The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) is a leading, single-track, annual forum on research in wireless embedded sensing systems. IPSN brings...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Jul 6, 2011, 2:17 am
The Philippines Congressional Commission on Science Technology and Engineering (COMSTE) presented a locally developed farm-to-market ecosystem for aquaculture at the 8th Asia Pacific Telecommunication and ICT Development Forum in Macau, China. COMSTE works with the Ateneo Innovation Center (AIC), J...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Jun 30, 2011, 4:39 am
The Zigduino is a pin and code compatible OSHW Arduino variant based around the ATmega128RFA1. This gives it a number of useful features above and beyond a stock Arduino: Built-in 802.15.4 transceiver Hardware AES-256 encryption module 128K of flash 16K of RAM In order to improve the Zigduino�...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Jun 29, 2011, 4:56 am
In 2007, there were 500 million devices connected to the Internet. By 2020, that could reach 50 billion, according to networking giant Cisco. This is the so-called “Internet of things”. A web where machines dominate. Strictly speaking, the Internet of things is a subset of a much bigger phenomen...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Jun 29, 2011, 4:47 am
The success of FlyPort WiFi module is due to the intuitive and easy programming essential software development environment thanks to the availability of APIs and functions already written and ready to be referenced in your code . The only bad thing is that you need to update the Framework to the 4th...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Jun 28, 2011, 5:55 am
If your home Wi-Fi router wasn’t cooped up indoors, it could send a signal about a 20th of a mile before the signal became too weak and distorted for a computer to receive it. Technology developed by San Diego startup On-Ramp Wireless uses the same frequency, but less power, to send data signals 4...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Jun 28, 2011, 5:51 am
New software allows wireless sensor networks to run at much lower energy, according to researchers writing in the International Journal of Sensor Networks. The technology could improve efficiency for hurricane and other natural disaster warning systems. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are used to ...
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Antonio R. posted an article on Wireless Sensor Networks Blog - Jun 27, 2011, 4:50 am
The ZigBee Alliance, a global ecosystem of organizations creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, residential, commercial and consumer applications, today announced it has opened two new offices in China to drive greater ZigBee adoption and address ZigBee standards to meet China’s...
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