Wi-Fi is nice, but the real action will be in ZigBee, sensor networks, and the RoboNet.
Both IBM and HP have been exploring projects to use sensor networks to track physical infrastructure in real time.
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However, energy needs increase exponentially when considering wireless sensor networks of many thousand components the consumption adds up quickly.
Martella walked me through numerous examples of how wireless sensor networks operate.
Intel Corp. has funded a company called Crossbow Technology, and companies such as Millennial Net and Ember also are pursuing wireless sensor networks.
The devices do not include electrical wiring or battery replacements, making it a likely candidate for powering remote sensor networks and medical-sensing technologies.
Wireless Sensor Networks are smarter than the sum of their sensors.
The world is already filled with small and scattered wireless sensor networks covering local areas in factories and farms, homes and offices and increasingly cars and people.
Robert and I contend there are five rapidly converging forces: social media, mobile devices, sensor networks, Big Media and mapping that are forming a new contextual era.
Finally, we wrote about one Black Hat talk ourselves last week, unveiling research by Greek researcher Thanassis Gianettsos that shows new ways of penetrating and hijacking the sort of sensor networks being developed by IBM and HP.
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Storage capacity requirements are growing due to the proliferation of video cameras and sensor networks, user generated content and its use in social networks, content distribution systems as well as on-line storage to support backups and disaster recovery.
The attack built by Giannetsos and his colleagues has a wider target than the power grid: any system that uses sensor mesh networks, from buildings that use the sensors to monitor for weaknesses in their architecture to sensors distributed in forests to detect wildfires.
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Moreover, improvements in sensor technology and computer networks mean that the system would not need a large radar in central Europe.
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As one tiny but illustrative example, Cisco notes that soon networks will be moving 200 megabytes of sensor data annually per cow.
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