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Archive for May, 2010
May 21, 2010 at 1:01 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The IPSO Alliance, the leading organization defining the “Internet of Things,” today announced that five new members have been elected to its board of directors. These members represent Bosch, Duke Energy, Fujitsu, Intel and National Instruments. The mission of the board is to actively promote and educate the networking, technology, consumer and government communities about the benefits and availability of Internet Protocol (IP) for smart networked devices.
“The IPSO Alliance is made up of some of the world’s most innovative companies with the same goal in mind – to develop and bring to market IP-networked smart objects,” said Alliance chairman Geoff Mulligan. “I look forward to the significant contribution and experience these new elected members will bring to the board and the entire Alliance membership.”
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May 21, 2010 at 12:59 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Echelon Corporation announced today that it has been accepted as a member of the European Smart Metering Industry Group (ESMIG). The group provides knowledge and expertise to key stakeholders in the European smart metering market on smart metering and related communications, including European Union member states governments and institutions, authorities, regulators, consumers and utilities.
ESMIG members are the leading meter manufacturers, communication solution vendors, IT companies and system integrators in the European smart metering market. Member companies represent the entire value chain for smart metering — from meter manufacturing, software, installation, and consulting, to communications, data management and system integration for electricity, water and gas utilities.
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May 17, 2010 at 5:45 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Call for papers: ACM BuildSys 2010, in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2010
http://buildsys.org/2010
2nd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings and Surroundings
Zurich, Switzerland – November 2, 2010.
Important dates:
* Submission deadline: 30 July 2010
* Notification of acceptance: 7 September 2010
* Camera Ready Due: 25 September 2010
* Workshop date: 2 November 2010
May 13, 2010 at 6:12 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
To effectively use this promising WSN technology, you must overcome the challenges associated with configuring and managing data acquisition, efficiently analyzing the collected data, storing data for future analysis, and displaying data to the end user in a meaningful way. Engineers and scientists have been meeting these challenges for more than 20 years with NI LabVIEW, a graphical programming environment used to acquire, analyze, and present data. Over the years, LabVIEW has added the ability to program real-time systems, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), ARM microcontrollers, and more. Now, with the LabVIEW Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Module Pioneer, you can use LabVIEW intuitive graphical programming to program NI WSN nodes. The resulting embedded software can help you extend node battery life, perform custom analysis, and reduce response times with embedded decision making.
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May 13, 2010 at 6:08 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Dust Networks has emerged as the leading supplier of wireless sensor networking (WSN) technology for industrial applications. In April 2010, Dust announced a new product direction. The company will add an ARM Cortex-M3 processor to its future products, and will support several major sensor network standards: IEC 62591 (WirelessHART), 6LowPAN (IPV6), and ZigBee. To understand why the company would make such a shift, it’s helpful to look at Dust’s background and the reasons for its success in industrial markets.
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May 12, 2010 at 10:28 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Sensorpedia, a program developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, enables individuals, communities, and enterprises to share, find, and use sensor data online. Instead of networking users based on mutual personal interests, Sensorpedia networks users based on mutual sensor information interests. Sensorpedia applies several design principles common to many popular Web 2.0 sites:
- Use of a URL as the common denominator for referencing specific pieces of data
- Access control based on social networking and groups of trusted users
- A flexible tag-based classification scheme in place of a fixed hierarchy of information
- Simple Application Programming Interface (API) supporting the creation of data “mashups” from multiple data sources
- Publish-subscribe mechanism enabling automated notification of data updates
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May 6, 2010 at 11:12 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The IPSO Alliance, the leading organization defining the “Internet of Things,” today announced the successful interoperability of two critical new elements of the IPv6 protocol for small, resource-constrained embedded devices known as “Smart Objects.” Tested at an event in Anaheim, Calif., the interoperability of RPL, the emerging, IETF-specified, IPv6 routing protocol for low power and lossy networks, and of 6LoWPAN-HC, a header compression format for highly efficient IPv6 packet delivery over IEEE® 802.15.4 low-power wireless personal area networks (WPAN), are key to connecting smart objects such as meters, sensors or control devices, and smart appliances over the Internet.
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May 6, 2010 at 11:10 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
According to the Microsoft Worldwide Utility Industry Survey 2010, only 8 percent of utilities around the world have completed their smart grid technology implementations while 37 percent have projects underway and more than half haven’t yet started.
Why the delay?
The hesitation surrounding the smart grid doesn’t focus on what the objective is and why it is necessary. There appears to be a consensus around the need to optimize power generation and delivery and agreement that the end goal is to help utilities achieve demand response, environmental and conservation goals and control unnecessary costs.
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May 6, 2010 at 11:08 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
As the smart grid gains traction around the globe, a brief understanding of some major differences between North American and European smart grid implementations is in order. In general, the two geographies have begun their efforts differently: wireless mesh in North America and power line carrier (PLC) in Europe. The emergence of radio frequency (RF) mesh solutions suitable for Europe, however, likely will cause an alignment of European and North American smart grid initiatives.
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May 3, 2010 at 10:30 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, residential, commercial and consumer electronics applications, today announced it has made the draft 0.7 document of ZigBee Smart Energy™ version 2.0 available for public download and comment. This draft is being provided in conjunction with the Alliance’s previously announced commitment to collect public comments on the standard in addition to the input from the broad stakeholder community already actively engaged in its development. The release of the draft 0.7 document has been accelerated to meet the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards review timeline.
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