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Buzzing about ZigBee: Wireless in 2007
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Sandra Gittlen of Earthweb discusses how Zigbee can help IT Managers extend their reach into monitoring and controlling physical items within their organizations.  Also, it talks about how Wi-Fi and Zigbee would interplay and how they're different.  One item that surprised me was a quote from John DiGiovanni, director of marketing at Calif.-based wireless vendor Xirrus, "..there are well over a thousand companies developing with ZigBee so we can expect a growing stream of products over the next 12 months"  Read the article here
Last Updated ( Sunday, 08 October 2006 )
 
Is WSN Market worth $5-7 billion?
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So says Research and Markets, a market research firm out of Dublin, Ireland says that the market for wireless sensor systems should grow rapidly over the next 5-10 years and has potential to reach 5 to 7 billion dollars in future. The WSN market will grow rapidly from its current small base, sales will multiply year-to-year. Annual growth rates will fall through a still substantial 40 or 50%. I think it has potential to be but it is too far out to predict that number right now.  First, it needs to find a few solid beach heads  to grow out of its currrent  commercial infancy status. What do you guys think? Read the R&M press release here

Last Updated ( Sunday, 08 October 2006 )
 
Book:Protocols and Architectures for WSN
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Buy this book on Amazon: Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks by Holger Karl (Author), Andreas Willig (Author)

Prof. Jochen Schiller, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universitat Berlin, says "I am deeply impressed by the book of Karl & Willig. It is by far the most complete source for wireless sensor networks...The book covers almost all topics related to sensor networks, gives an amazing number of references, and, thus, is the perfect source for students, teachers, and researchers. Throughout the book the reader will find high quality text, figures, formulas, comparisons etc. - all you need for a sound basis to start sensor network research."

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Book: WSN: An Information Processing Approach
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Buy this book on Amazon: Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking) (Hardcover) by Feng Zhao (Author), Leonidas Guibas author)
 

One of the best selling WSN books on Amazon provides "an excellent foundation for embarking on understanding and building these new systems"-- Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Corporation

Book Description
Designing, implementing, and operating a wireless sensor network involves a wide range of disciplines and many application-specific constraints. To make sense of and take advantage of these systems, a holistic approach is neededand this is precisely what Wireless Sensor Networks delivers.

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Dust Networks Recognized by WSJ
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Congratulations! Dust Networks, Hayward, CA based startup founded by former Cal Berkeley Professor Kris Pister, was announced as one of the recipients of The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Global Technology Innovation Awards. The winners of the competition were announced on September 11, 2006. Dust Networks was named a runner-up in the wireless category. More than 600 entries from around the world were considered for the prestigious awards. These awards recognize technological breakthroughs by individuals, companies and organizations around the world in a wide range of areas, including medicine and medical devices, wireless, security, consumer electronics, semiconductors and others. Read more here
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