Directly from Havana. WCSN07 began this Monday. So far participants have presented 11 lectures on theoretical research topics with emphasis on open problems in routing, broadcasting and area coverage optimizations, sensors relocation, medium access issues, among others. Today we have had brainstorming teams working on some of the topics mentioned above and tomorrow there is [...]
Telepathx announced that it has developed a new low cost wireless RFID fire mapping sensor that will alert fire brigades within two minutes of spotting a bushfire ignition. The tiny TPX-VRF sensor said James Eades, company CEO and founder will allow firelighters to respond to fires faster than ever, it is the first real time [...]
From Moteiv’s blog: Following on Texas Instrument’s announcement of free IEEE 802.15.4 and Zigbee stacks, MeshNetics has released their IEEE 802.15.4 MAC through open source. The MeshNetics MAC runs on Atmel hardware including the Atmel Demo Board. As a trend, more and more MAC and Networking software is provided either with the hardware or as [...]
