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The Future Of Wireless Sensor Networks

Posted by timothy on from the it's-dusty-in-here dept.

Frisky070802 writes "In the 12/03 Wired, Intel's Tiny Hope for the Future describes a fundamental transformation as Intel's Research director David Tennenhouse realized the importance of sensor networks. He saw a Berkeley project on 'motes,' little sensors that communicate on ad-hoc wireless networks. 'The company now foresees networks consisting of thousands of motes, located wherever there's a need for data collection, streaming real-time data to one another and to central servers. Intel imagines the day when every assembly line, soybean field, and nursing home on the planet will be peppered with motes, prodding factory foremen to replace faulty machines, farmers to water fields, and nurses to check on something unusual in room E214.' Intel was impressed enough with the technology to fund a whole 'lablet' to develop it. Intel sees a huge potential market in developing both the sensors and the computation to process the huge amounts of sensor information. If this rings any bells, note that the Intel lablets are also behind the Planetlab Internet emulator, previously discussed in Slashdot."

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  4. Re:Pine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If it is the Planetlab Internet emulator, how does it emulate me? Can I sue them for violating my IP?

  5. "Internet emulator" by rune.w · · Score: 0, Troll

    Doesn't that take a hell of a lot of hard drive space?

    R.
  6. Re:originality? by t0ny · · Score: -1, Troll

    See, these are the kind of big projects the Open Source community should be focusing on! Oh wait, they have no focus. Never mind.

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