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 ...

LONDON — Fabless semiconductor company Jennic has started sampling ZigBee development kits using its single chip IEEE802.15.4 device and protocol stacks from two of its partners. Jennic (Sheffield, ...

Wireless Sensor Networks will open the floodgates to the wireless revolution. But building a practical wireless network can be a daunting challenge unless the concepts are kept simple. Nobody can ...

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 ...

Ultra-wideband technology (UWB) allows for low-power wireless communication, ideal for wireless sensor nodes. The IEEE 802.15.4 standardization committee who defined the MAC and physical layers ...

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 ...

The Digi International ConnectPort X is a ready-made gateway designed to speed the implementation of 802.15.4 or ZigBee wireless networks. It lets modular wireless nodes connect to the Internet via ...

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Today the group that develops Bluetooth technology said it would join with rival short-range wireless technology from Nokia known as Wibree to develop all manner of ...