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<DIV>From <A
href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/01/0225220&mode=thread&tid=118&tid=126&tid=137&tid=187&tid=193">Slashdot</A>:
In the 12/03 Wired, <A
href="http://wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/intel.html">Intel's Tiny Hope for the
Future</A> 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 '<A
href="http://www.intel-research.net/berkeley/index.asp">lablet</A>' to develop
it. Intel sees a huge potential market in developing both the sensors and the
computation to process the huge amounts of sensor
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