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| | Aeroscout Customer Viracon Named a Winner
| | | The glass manufacturer has been awarded top honors in the Managing Automation 2009 Progressive Manufacturing 100 Awards in the category of operational excellence mastery for its asset tracking achievements across three facilities. |
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| What a Mesh! Part 2—Networking Architectures and Protocols
| | | In the second part of this two-part article we tackle network architectures and compare and contrast point-to-multipoint, ZigBee PRO (ZigBee 2007), 6LoWPAN, Wireless HART, and Digi Mesh networking protocols, laying out their key characteristics, benefits, and limitations. |
| | | Future Networks
| | | The next generation of networks will move beyond disconnected device-specific networks and systems and toward a distributed infrastructure, with intelligent functions residing across the entire network, from its edge to its core. |
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| Wireless Seismic and Volcanic Monitoring in Ecuador
| | | Using robust radios coupled with a variety of sensors, geophysicists in Ecuador have implemented real-time monitoring systems for the country's volcanoes and other seismically active areas, leading to improved knowledge and public safety. |
| | Automating Pipeline Integrity Monitoring
| | | Cathodic protection devices have been used for decades to monitor steel pipes for corrosion. A new family of radios is designed to automate this process, connecting directly to the corrosion monitoring system. |
| | Sensors and Privacy
| | | A survey of more than 700 IEEE Fellows, done by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in conjunction with the Institute for the Future, sought to learn what science and technology developments are most likely to take hold within the next 10 to 50 years. |
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| | | Powering Tire Pressure Sensors
| | | In the interest of improved safety (and better gas mileage), tire pressure monitoring systems will soon be mandatory on cars. The challenge is how to power them. |
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| Future Networks
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| | The next generation of networks will move beyond disconnected device-specific networks and systems and toward a distributed infrastructure, with intelligent functions residing across the entire network, from its edge to its core. |
| | | Embedded Web Services: Making Sense out of Diverse Sensors
| | | Integrating networks of sensors has been a goal for years, from the creation of device profiles and industrial networking standards through to the adoption of ad hoc wireless sensor and control networks. Web services promise to ease the integration of these disparate and distributed elements. |
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| Investments Yield RFID Progress
| | | It's clear that developers see RFID-and-sensor networks as a key growth area. A sampling of recent developments in tags (sidebar) and infrastructure prove it. |
| | LBS Incorporates Sensors
| | | Cell phone providers promote location-based services (LBS) as a way to send custom messages to subscribers based on their location—as reported by GPS or radiolocation and triangulation. Now LBSs are beginning to incorporate sensors. |
| | Tower of Babel Solution
| | | Invensys points out that industrial operations typically introduce wireless networking by experimenting with a point solution for one application, then another point solution?often based on a different protocol?to solve another problem, and so on. The result: a messy, non-interoperable system unwittingly created, often with the blessing of the IT department. |
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| Next-Generation Wireless Asset Management
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| | Next-generation wireless asset management systems are incorporating lower power electronics, cellular technologies, and GPS to enable more robust, flexible, scalable systems that reduce operating expenses and improve business productivity. |
| | ZigBee Meets IP
| | | The Compact Application Protocol (CAP) is an open framework that combines the IP world with ZigBee technology, enabling users to operate devices produced by different vendors on existing networks without using an inefficient gateway translation layer. |
| | Wireless Seismic and Volcanic Monitoring in Ecuador
| | | Using robust radios coupled with a variety of sensors, geophysicists in Ecuador have implemented real-time monitoring systems for the country's volcanoes and other seismically active areas, leading to improved knowledge and public safety. |
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