Freescale Semiconductor is now sampling the next-generation MC13224 device in its single-chip IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee Platform-in-Package. This family is based on IEEE® 802.15.4 technology, optimized for low cost, low-power, real-time remote monitoring and control.

The integrated chip contains a 32-bit ARM7 microcontroller and is designed for a range of wireless applications, including energy management, commercial building automation, [...]

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Pachube, a mashup for sensor networks, enables people to tag and share real time environmental data from objects, devices and spaces around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments.

Make Magazine says only eighteen feeds are conected so far - but the datastreams are already quite interesting - from a [...]

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The Google Earth Blog describes how Michael Kaye made a flight simulator using Google Earth hooked to a stationary bike.
The hidden flight simulator mode of Google Earth requires one of several key sequences to activate. First click in the main 3D window of GE to activate it. If you are on Windows (and not from [...]

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The Internet Engineering Task Force has kicked off a new effort that could deliver a key building block for wireless sensor networks, says EE Times. The Routing Over Low-power and Lossy Networks (ROLL) group aims to define a standard for Internet Protocol as early as next summer.

Sensor networks may be the next big thing. Companies [...]

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In 2006 Federal Highway Administration listed 25.8% of nation’s 596,842 bridges either as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. While many of these bridges will remain in service for many years, they need monitoring and rehabilitation.
Presently, bridge monitoring is performed through periodic visual inspections. In the tragic example of I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse, the bridge [...]

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GainSpan, a Wi-Fi sensor company, today unveiled an ultra low power wireless sensor network that utilizes Wi-Fi. GainSpan’s semiconductor and software solutions are said to deliver the benefits of Wi-Fi with 5-10 years of battery life for applications like temperature and condition monitoring of industrial equipment.
The GainSpan GS1010 SoC is an ultra low-power System-on-a-Chip (SoC) [...]

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Grape Networks, a company specializing in the wireless sensor monitoring of vineyard microclimates and sensor canopy management on the Internet, announced that the company has established sales offices in Germany and France, reports Wireless Sensor Networks Blog.

Since Grape Networks’ inception four years ago, the company has been dominating the vineyard marketplace for the wireless sensor [...]

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Iranian news agencies this week reported 14 squirrels equipped with espionage systems were captured along their border. The squirrels were reportedly embedded with GPS, cameras and listening devices.
National Public Radio (listen), talked to Robert Baer, who worked for the CIA in Iran, intelligence expert James Bamford and wildlife professor John Koprowski, who co-authored the book [...]

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As the Sensors Expo opens today in Chicago, Dust Networks may be pulling ahead in wireless sensor networks by exploiting industrial applications, says EE Times.
Dust will show municipal applications for its Time Synchronized Mesh Protocol (TSMP), such as a parking sensor system embedded in pavement, developed by Streetline Networks. Streetline will use of Dust for [...]

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SquidBee is an Open Source hardware and software wireless sensor device. The goal of SquidBee is getting an “open mote” to create Sensor Networks.
According to their web site, the self-powered, wireless SquidBee will:

Acquire temperature, humidity, lightness, presence, pressure, sound, gases, smoke, presence, GPS, etc.

Operate within values, when required.

Transmits using a low [...]

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