A Platform for Wireless Networked Transducers

October 22, 2007 - As computers, sensors, and wireless communication have become smaller, cheaper, and more sophisticated, wireless transducer platforms have become a focus of research and commercial interest. This report describes an investigation into such platforms. It presents a new taxonomy of transducer systems, describes the construction of prototypes of a new transducer device designed for ease of application development, and discusses commercialization issues.

Project Sun SPOT today:

Project SunSPOT (Sun Small Programmable Object Technology) is an on- going and very active project at Sun Labs. Sun SPOTs can be purchased at: http://www.sunspotworld.com, and the Project is actively seeking educators, researchers and collaborators to participate in developing curricula and research proposals, as well as partnering with engineers who want to take on the challenge of sending our Sun SPOTs where none have gone before. If you'd like to join us, visit http://www.sunspotworld.com/proposals and submit your proposal.

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Project Sun SPOT Related Links:

• Home of Project SunSPOT
• Sun Labs Publications about Project Sun SPOT

More about Bernard Horan:

Since joining Sun Labs in 1997, Bernard has been a member of a number of Sun Labs, and Sun CTO, projects, including Sun SPOTs and Advanced Search. Currently Bernard is Principal Investigator for the Meeting Echoes Project, working to develop ways to capture and replay events in a virtual environment so that they can be replayed, audited, indexed (and thus searched), using Sun Labs Projects Darkstar and Wonderland as the basis for development.

Bernard Horan Related Links:

• Bernard Horan bio
• Project page-Meeting Echoes
• Project DarkStar
• Wonderland