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Archive for December, 2009
December 27, 2009 at 6:10 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Predicting the next 12 months is both unavoidable and irresistible at this time of year, so here are best guesses for what’s in store for the Smart Grid in 2010:
1) We’ll Mark Significant “Phase Two” Milestones: The first phase of the smart grid was about defining it — and it took nearly a decade for utilities (and vendors) to articulate a vision and blueprint for such a complex undertaking. Now that we’re there, it’s time to start making this vision concrete. Phase Two is about building out the smart grid, and I believe that 2010 will be a milestone year for progress in this regard. One important measure of our progress will be the number of newly connected homes and businesses by the end of next year. (By the way, Phase Three is about living in the smart grid –- and still in the distant future.)
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December 15, 2009 at 2:04 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The DASH7 Alliance, a coalition of organizations promoting a standard for wireless sensor networks, today announced support for Texas Instruments Incorporated’s (TI) CC430 line of radio-frequency (RF)-enabled microcontrollers (MCUs). The first RF system-on-chip (SoC) to comply with the DASH7 (ISO 18000-7) standard, the CC430 MCU family provides DASH7 developers with a robust and inexpensive platform for building DASH7 wireless networking devices and applications.
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December 15, 2009 at 2:03 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
There are plenty of ways to be green these days, but without some sort of feedback it’s hard to know just what shade you are. Enter Google’s PowerMeter, a service that tells you how much current you’re responsible for consuming. Why, it even shades its bar graphs in green, getting more pale the greedier you become. Google has partnerships with some utility companies in the US, Canada, and India, meaning a select few of you can do this sort of tracking by default. The rest of us were left out — until now. Two devices on the market let you track your usage in PowerMeter regardless of just how backwards your utility company is: The Energy Detective’s TED 5000 and the AlertMe Energy. We’ve been experimenting with these two for about a month now, finding that they serve the same purpose in very different ways and at very different costs. Click on through to see which one can best help you get greener.
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December 15, 2009 at 1:56 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The companion lecture slides for 6LoWPAN: The Wireless Embedded Internet have now been released on The Book page of 6lowpan.net. This first part of the book’s course material includes a suggested course syllabus, and 115 of lecture slides in both PowerPoint and PDF formats. This overview of the book is a good tool for lecturers, students and professionals alike. The slides have been released under a creative commons by-nc-sa license to encourage re-use. The companion exercise slides for Contiki are planned for release in the near future.
Links to the syllabus and lecture slides:
6LoWPAN Book Course Syllabus (PDF)
6LoWPAN Book Lecture Slides (PPT)
6LoWPAN Book Lecture Slides (PDF)
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December 8, 2009 at 11:51 am · Filed under Uncategorized
This new Research&Markets report evaluates intellectual property ownership, protection strategies and the impact on the market growth for Wireless Lighting Control technologies.
A common perception is that Wireless Lighting Control provides a large green-field opportunity to new market entrants. Conventional analysis often overlooks the impact Intellectual Property management activities by existing market participants.
‘Lutron Electronics Inc. is one of the major incumbents in this market space and enjoys a long history of licensing, managing and protecting its significant IP portfolio”, according to Kirsten West, PhD, Principal Analyst with WTRS. “Companies developing products for this market often overlook the prior art held by Lutron and other market participants’.
This report analyzes the IP holdings and IP protection strategies employed by industry incumbent Lutron in the residential wireless lighting control market.
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December 8, 2009 at 11:36 am · Filed under Uncategorized
GainSpan® Corporation, a leader in highly integrated low power Wi-Fi semiconductor solutions, has been awarded the Wi-Fi Alliance’s Wi-Fi CERTIFIED(TM) seal of approval for its 802.11b/g Sensor Reference design. GainSpan is the first ultra low power Wi-Fi design to achieve certification for enterprise level security as well as personal security.The GainSpan 802.11b/g Sensor Reference design is certified for both WPA(TM) and WPA2(TM) and all EAP types including EAP-TTLS, PEAPv0, PEAPv1 and EAP-FAST. GainSpan is the only low power Wi-Fi chipmaker to bear this distinction.
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December 4, 2009 at 12:32 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Why should you care if you’re in advertising? Because creating smart spaces means that you can deliver retail or branding experiences that are personalized for your audiences while collecting more information about your audiences than you know what to do with yet. Smart spaces have the capacity to create highly curated experiences that matter. They can provide useful or entertaining information, they can connect people and places, they can streamline processes and expose invisible inefficiencies. They can make lives better.
That, my friends, is return on investment. Here are some forward-looking technology companies that are creating the infrastructures for smart cities.
One of the projects is being driven by an assumption that as objects around us become smart and begin to embody the functionality of our computers and mobile devices, the world will transform into an Internet of Things.
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December 4, 2009 at 12:31 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Arguably the main selling point of the ISA100.11a wireless standard over its WIrelessHART alternative is that it supports functionalities such as video, WiFi and personnel monitoring – on top of doing everything that the rival standard can do in terms of sending and deliivering measurements and other data from devices across a network.
The Honeywell OneWireless industrial wireless network system, for example, offers a scalable infrastructure to support wireless-enabled devices located throughout process facilities. The network is said to support multiple industrial protocols and applications simultaneously and provides a single wireless network that is simple to manage and efficient to operate.The system also supports wired transmitters, mobile worker devices, as well as standard Wi-Fi and Ethernet.
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December 2, 2009 at 1:25 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Excellent PhD and postdoc positions are available within CLARITY in the broad area of embedded sensor networks to leverage energy saving solutions in buildings including: low-power communication, user modeling, building activity monitoring, web-based appliance actuation, building management systems, and decision-making techniques.
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Please consider forwarding the vacancies to interested scentists/developers with an expertise in the area.
