Companies test prototype wireless-sensor nets
- 0
- Add a Comment
Self-organizing wireless-sensor networks, a realization of the Pentagon’s “smart-dust” concept, have reached the prototype stage worldwide. The smart sensors, or Motes, were created by the University of California at Berkeley and Intel, and are being tested out worldwide today. “At this stage, there are over 100 groups around the world that are using the combination of our open-source Motes with the TinyOS [operating system] and TinyDB [database],” said Berkeley professor David Culler, who is also director of Intel Research’s “lablette” in Berkeley.
Sneeze-free dust. That’s a concept! Bad pun.
