Using TinyOS-based mesh-networking software, a family of intelligent sensing and data-acquisition modules and integrated radio/processor boards can create a self-forming customizable “smart-dust” ...

If you are looking for the next disruptive technology headed for the enterprise: think dust. No, not small grains of sand, soot or dirt but similarly sized particles that have a brain. Smart dust, a ...

Tiny sensors planted in a sugar beet field south of Fargo gather data vital to helping the crop reach its harvest potential. "It can influence everything - from the timing of fungicide or deciding ...

Getting a tiny wireless sensor to work is hard enough. But the real challenge may be in pulling thousands of smart-dust motes-each with extremely constrained processing, memory and communications ...

Dust Networks this week introduced a simpler, less expensive wireless sensor network with a new chip. Dust Networks this week introduced a simpler, less expensive wireless sensor network with a new ...

Disposable sensing and communications systems converge into a cubic-millimeter bundle. Advances in miniaturization, integration and energy management show that a complete wireless sensor/communication ...

GE Sensing has teamed up with Dust Networks to develop wireless sensors based on mesh network technology for a variety of industries. The networks will leverage the Time Synchronized Mesh Protocol ...

In computing, the vision always precedes the reality by a decade or more. The pattern has held true from the personal computer to the Internet, as it takes time, brainpower and investment to conquer ...