[extropy-chat] The Future Of Wireless Sensor Networks

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>From Slashdot: In the 12/03 Wired, Intel's Tiny Hope for the Future
describes a fundamental transformation as Intel's Research director David
Tennenhouse realized the importance of sensor networks. He saw a Berkeley
project on 'motes,' little sensors that communicate on ad-hoc wireless
networks. 'The company now foresees networks consisting of thousands of
motes, located wherever there's a need for data collection, streaming
real-time data to one another and to central servers. Intel imagines the day
when every assembly line, soybean field, and nursing home on the planet will
be peppered with motes, prodding factory foremen to replace faulty machines,
farmers to water fields, and nurses to check on something unusual in room
E214.' Intel was impressed enough with the technology to fund a whole
'lablet' to develop it. Intel sees a huge potential market in developing
both the sensors and the computation to process the huge amounts of sensor
information.
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