An earthquake engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has successfully performed the first test of wireless sensors in the simulated structural control of a model laboratory building. Shirley J. Dyke, Ph.D., the Edward C. Dicke Professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Washington University Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory, combined the wireless [...]
Interested in real world experiments or deployments of wireless sensor networks? Then ACM RealWSN is the event for you. This year RealWSN will be held in conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2008 (Glasgow, Scotland, April 1, 2008). We expect to attract lively participation from the EuroSys systems community. Last RealWSN event was held with ACM MobiSys [...]
Finally a book on Wireless Sensor Networks that covers real world applications and contains practical advice! Kuorilehto et al. have written the first practical guide to wireless sensor networks. The authors draw on their experience in the development and field-testing of autonomous wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to offer a comprehensive reference on fundamentals, practical matters, [...]
The Matrix trilogy was one long paean to data visualization. As we all know, it began with the premise that life was a sophisticated simulation, virtual reality taken to the civilizational level. Except for a few Matrix die-hards that I’m sure exist, people don’t actually believe this is what the physical/geographical world actually is. But [...]
The Int’l Networking and Communications Conference (INCC) 2008 will be held in Lahore, Pakistan from May 1-4, 2008. Pakistan is amongst the top-4 emerging markets, with one of the largest telecommunications market in the world. The conference will feature not only technical and tutorial sessions, but also business application sessions and panels focused on the [...]
Following are some security related codes for TinyOS: TinyECC: Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Sensor Networks TinyECC 1.0 is a software package providing ECC-based PKC operations that can be flexibly configured and integrated into sensor network applications. It provides a digital signature scheme (ECDSA), a key exchange protocol (ECDH), and a public key encryption scheme (ECIES). [...]
One RF Technology, front-runners of European ZigBee technology, and Daintree Networks, Inc., a leader in ZigBee Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA) software, have announced a partnership to offer ZigBee developers a powerful new solution. More information can be found here.
AIR is a public, social experiment in which people are invited to use Preemptive Media’s portable air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots. Participants or “carriers” are able to see pollutant levels in their current locations, as well as simultaneously view measurements from the other [...]
Digi International today introduced the XBee wall router, a ZigBee router used to expand a ZigBee network’s range. By plugging into standard power sockets, XBee wall routers are easy-to-install building blocks for self-healing ZigBee networks and ideal for creating robust Drop-in Networks. “The XBee wall router’s small form factor and ease of deployment make it [...]
From Embedded.com, the second part of the article by Anton Hristozov: Any operating system strives to provide a framework for convenient and easy application software development. Through the use of multitasking and hardware abstractions, an operating system is useful to a programmer because it isolates dependencies from the particular hardware details through the agency of [...]
