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Monthly Archives: November 2008
November 28, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Remote Health Monitoring with CHN
From SAP Network blogs: Some months ago, I described the plan to develop a prototype based on the CHN services integrating wireless sensor technology for remote health monitoring (see here: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/8857). The doctor uses his application during a monthly checkup to
November 26, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | 1 Comment
Embedded Computing for the Rest of us: Project Sun SPOT
With just 850 students, Warren Wilson College in North Carolina is not awash in inter-departmental resources. So when Professor David Abernathy won a $100,000 grant to develop a geographic information system and wireless sensor network for the Cocobolo Nature Reserve
November 26, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | 14 Comments
ns-2 network simulator: Free, yes; friendly, no
The open source network simulation tool ns-2 is an invaluable tool for researchers working on wired or wireless networks. I came across ns-2 while working on my thesis. I needed a network simulator, and since my college lacked the brand-name
November 24, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Some power benchmarks
An interesting blog entry about power consumption of an Arduino Mini Pro board with and without Xbee card can be found here. The conclusion is that if node is powered up only 3 seconds every 5 minutes, then a 220mAh
November 20, 2008 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
Contiki with small IPv6 stack
The new 2.2.2 release of Contiki contains uIPv6, the world’s smallest fully compliant IPv6 stack, SICSlowpan IPv6-over-802.15.4 header compression, and command line tools for HTTP interaction: wget and httpd.
November 19, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
BAIA Panel Wireless Sensor Networks
BAIA, Business Association Italy America, has organized a Panel has organized a Panel on “Business Models and Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks” on 10/08/2008. The event, sponsored by Pirelli Tyre, Telecom Italia and C’ Era una Volta, has taken place
November 18, 2008 by Muneeb Ali | 1 Comment
CFP: Body Sensor Networks 2009
The workshop on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2009) is coming to Berkeley, CA this year. Paper submission deadline is 30th Jan, 2009 and the actual event is in June, 2009. More details on their website http://bsn2009.org.
November 18, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
World’s first IP-based wireless sensor network (6LoWPAN) enabled handheld tablet
KitWorks.fi Ltd. today announced the 1st IP-based wireless sensor network (WSN) handheld device in the world, which interoperates seamlessly with IP-based 2.4GHz wireless sensor networks taking full advantage of the 6LoWPAN standard and IEEE 802.15.4 RF technology. The KitWrx 456 handheld tablet enhances
November 17, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
802.15.4 vs ZigBee
The Wireless Sensor Network Research group (WSNRG) has published a new article titled 802.15.4 vs ZigBee which to help people to clarify with all the communications technologies which are used in the WSN field: 802.15.4, ZigBee, Mesh protocols, 2.4GHz, 868MHz
