http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/~nota/blog wireless sensor networks meets energy efficiency Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:26:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en During a presentation about wireless sensor networks to the WSN-SIG in 2005, David Culler of Arch Rock said, "Don't bet against IP." Recents events seems to confirm that prognostication for wireless sensor networks. Zensys, who makes chips for "other Z protocol" Z-wave, publicly announced their intention to integrate ... http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/~nota/blog/?p=35 Moteiv announced the release of their new Tmote Mini -- a mote module in the form factor of a miniSDIO card. This departure from the standard OEM module is refreshing and should lower the barrier for integration with existing technology platforms...with miniSDIO interfaces. This release follows the Crossbow ... http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/~nota/blog/?p=34 Open source home automation is the concept of a fully open platform(s) for automation of controls, communications, security, entertainment, and health within a residential environment -- Honestly, I particularly dislike the term "home automation" as it conjures up thoughts of gee-whiz toys for geeks. Hindered by unreliable power line ... http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/~nota/blog/?p=33 Severin Borenstein gave a very informative talk about real time electricity pricing during the latest CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. Real time (we're talking "real-time" on the order of minutes) electricity pricing should increase the market efficiency of the electricity market. Whereas today, the wholesale and ... http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/~nota/blog/?p=32 One of the highlights from IEEE MASS was the panel discussion on the state of the future internet. Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research), Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC), Rick Han (Univeristy of Colorado, Boulder), and John Heidemann (ISI/USC) traded thoughts on how the next Internet is shaping up -- not suprisingly, there ... http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/~nota/blog/?p=31 IEEE MASS (Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems) started with a terrific keynote from Professor Kumar (UIUC). The general thesis of the talk concerned the acceptance and future research of wireless sensor networks as hybrid control systems rather than data-centric sensing networks. Prof. Kumar proposed academia is in the ... http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/~nota/blog/?p=30 The 2006 IEEE IST-WSN workshop was yesterday in Vancouver, B.C. A small group of researchers talked about intelligent systems with wireless sensor networks. Ankur Teredesai from RIT talked about pervasive social networks -- the idea being hardware can push social networking. His prime example is the ... http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/~nota/blog/?p=29 It seems experiences with real world wireless sensor network applications for the great outdoors was the theme for this past week. Peter Tsepeleff, CEO Grape Networks, gave a talk at the WSN-SIG about a depoyment in several California vineyards. Peter and company deploy agricultural sensor networks to ... http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/~nota/blog/?p=28 In late 2005 I figured out the next stage for my research would be "what if your house could blog" that might actually make use of an old project, tinyML, an XML schema for wireless sensor networks. The technology I work with (i.e. wireless sensor networks) provides much richer ... http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/~nota/blog/?p=27 Last week I attended the ACEEE Summer Study program. Attending an event with such a diverse attendance list is always interesting, proof of which being talks on performance contracting for homes (read: micro-ESCO's for those in the energy world, and still not a scalable business model) and why ... http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/~nota/blog/?p=25