Crossbow brings wireless sensor networking

In a move to supply the new generation of smart wireless sensor networks, Sequoia Technology has signed a franchise agreement with Crossbow Technology.

In a move to supply the new generation of smart wireless sensor networks, Sequoia Technology has signed a franchise agreement with Crossbow Technology, the leading end-to-end solutions supplier in the wireless sensor networking arena and the largest manufacturer of Smart Dust wireless sensors.

Crossbow is also a leading supplier of inertial sensor systems for aviation, land, and marine applications.

Sequoia's addition of Crossbow products is its first move into the area of smart sensor networks and uses the vast knowledge accumulated across Sequoia's Sensor and Wireless divisions.

Smart networks employ smaller, smarter, wireless sensing devices and mesh networking platforms for medical, environmental, industrial monitoring and control, building automation, security and asset tracking applications.

Crossbow's open architecture, TinyOS-based platform enables highly intelligent multi-sensing devices to dynamically and reliably self-organise to efficiently capture and send detailed physical data anywhere, anytime.

This transformation has profoundly affected how sensors are used and the types of data that are possible to gather.

Sequoia is offering smart wireless sensor development kits designed to provide customers with all of the basic tools needed to develop and prototype a wireless network running on TinyOS.

The basic kit includes three mote processor boards, a base station and two sensor boards.

Details of this and other development kits are available on Sequoia's website.

"We're delighted to have Sequoia Technology join us as a distributor in the UK", said Mike Horton, President and CEO of Crossbow.

"The company's depth of knowledge in sensor and wireless networks will be extremely beneficial to our customers".

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