iWOW M2M Open Protocol
The iWOW M2M Open Protocol (iMOP) is an event-driven software engine that offers developers a simpler and easier way to automate the communication of data in Machine-To-Machine (M2M) applications. Embedded atop iWOW’s TR-800 GSM/GPRS modules, iMOP is specially designed to suit the requirements for applications such as remote monitoring, fleet management and asset tracking. iMOP [...]
Radiocrafts, Sensinode Team on IP Control Platform
Radiocrafts AS and Sensinode Ltd. recently launched a new platform for integrating the Internet with sensor networks. The IEEE 802.15.4 compliant radio modules from Radiocrafts combined with the 6LoWPAN compliant NanoStack from Sensinode offers integrators super compressed IPv6 over low power radios in a very compact module solution. The use of end-to-end open source IP [...]
ZigBee Commercial Building Automation
By 2008, ZigBee sensor networking technology should start finding significant adoption in commercial building applications, according ABI Research. There are three major markets for sensor networking: the home, commercial buildings, and industrial facilities. ZigBee targets all three of them. In the home, there are alternatives to ZigBee, and in industry there are some questions about [...]
Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems
The IEEE Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES) will take place July 4-6, 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. I know, the event is about seven months away. I thought I would post this announcement now for those of you who might be interested in submitting a paper. The purpose of the symposium is to bring together [...]
U.S. Army is Looking for a Few Good Nanotechnologies
Over on EE Times, is an article about the U.S. Army searching for ways to improve armor on vehicles that have been a prime target for improvised explosives and roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. A requirement for lightweight ground vehicles is the ability to join different materials when adding armor. Reactive Nanotechnologies Inc. has [...]
Too Much Industrial Control Data
Real-time processing that can handle higher volumes of data has become critical in industrial-control design. From complete factories down to the individual electromechanical device, real-time data acquisition is critical to the control and feedback that lie at the heart of automation. While advanced VLSI technology offers ever higher performance, it is also enabling increasingly sophisticated [...]
Hard Real-Time with Windows XP Article
Check out the Hard Real-Time with Windows XP article on Embedded Star. Phoenix Contact created a Soft PLC with the convenience of the Windows(R) XP interface on the user side, while at the same time providing hard real-time by utilizing the Windows(R) CE real-time operating system – all running on a single Intel XXX based [...]
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