Technologists have never had trouble coming up with potential applications for wireless sensors. In a home security system, for example, wireless sensors would be much easier to install than sensors ...

Matt Perkins serves as CTO for Awarepoint. Prior, he spent 10 years at Motorola as Technical Director of the Things-to-Things Research Center, where he was responsible for aligning business ...

It’s been quite some time since I mentioned ZigBee, the emerging low-cost sensor network based on IEEE 802.15.4 wireless standards in the 2.4 GHz band. Well, the ZigBee 1.0 specification is poised for ...

LONDON — Texas Instruments has started sampling what it says is the industry’s first System-on-Chip (SoC) solution with a hardware location engine targeting low-power ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 wireless ...

Cortet by CEL has announced the availability of its Cortet Z10 Range Extender (CGW-Z-010) for use in various wireless sensor network (WSN), machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) ...

HAYWARD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dust Networks®, the leading supplier of wireless sensor networks (WSN), today announced that it has joined the ZigBee® Alliance. The ZigBee Alliance is an association ...

TOKYO – Oki Electric Industry began running an experimental ZigBee-based sensor network in Japan’s western port city of Kobe on Monday, the company said the same day. The company installed a network ...

Implementing a ZigBee wireless network has never been simpler thanks to the Texas Instruments CC2530ZNP (Fig. 1). Building a ZigBee product is a challenge because of the complexity of the ZigBee ...

Bluetooth and ZigBee have much in common. Both are types of IEEE 802.15 “wireless personal-area networks,” or WPANs. Both run in the 2.4-GHz unlicensed frequency band, and both use small form factors ...