Cambridge Researchers Plan Wireless Sensor Network

Search-Engines writes “The researchers plan to install 100 sensors by 2011 on streetlamps throughout the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, using a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Each node will include an embedded PC, an 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi interface and a collection of weather sensorsThe system solves a constraint on previous wireless networks — battery life — by mounting each node on a municipal streetlamp where it draws power from city electricity. That approach opens up a new range of uses for the sensors, performing long-term experiments like real-time environmental monitoring, correlating micro-climates with population health, or tracking the spread of bio-chemical agents
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070408/tc_pcworl d/130493“

April 9, 2007 by Uncategorized 0

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