Imagine a golf course that can sense rainfall, and adjust the automatic sprinkler system to delay a scheduled watering session or focus on parts of the course that didn’t get as much rain as others.

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) consist of small battery powered electronic devices - often known as 'motes' - which gather data from built-in sensors. A WSN is self-organising allowing it to have high ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rockville, MD – July 27, 2006 – Airbee Wireless (OTC Other: ABEW) today announced that it has executed a license agreement with Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden AG (“ZMD†), to provide ZigBeeTM ...

There’s no shortage of networking technology designed to connect devices wirelessly, but one way is perhaps the most people (even if you don’t know it yet). That would be Zigbee, a global ...

As a recent Network World article noted, wired sensor networks have been around for decades, with an array of gauges measuring temperature, fluid levels, humidity and other attributes on pipelines, ...

Zaragoza, Spain – January 19th, 2010 – Libelium, a technology leader in distributed wireless networks, announces the launch of the Waspmote modular platform for wireless sensor networks. With radio ...