NetFlash: Wireless sensor networks grabbing greater attention

Last week, roving reporter John Cox took a trip into the experimental world of wireless sensors. This is an area that’s “pre-standard,” as they say, but when you start to consider the possibilities, the mind boggles. My personal favorite from among the early pioneers is a sensor coupled with a Bluetooth transmitter that is embedded in a concrete piling. It can tell you – by the way the ground reverberates when the piling is slammed into it – what kind of soil it is and just how much of a load the piling can bear. Read about some of the other possibilities in John’s report. Wireless sensor networks grabbing greater attention http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704sensors.html?net

Last week, roving reporter John Cox took a trip into the experimental world of wireless sensors. This is an area that’s “pre-standard,” as they say, but when you start to consider the possibilities, the mind boggles. My personal favorite from among the early pioneers is a sensor coupled with a Bluetooth transmitter that is embedded in a concrete piling. It can tell you – by the way the ground reverberates when the piling is slammed into it – what kind of soil it is and just how much of a load the piling can bear. Read about some of the other possibilities in John’s report.

Wireless sensor networks grabbing greater attention

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704sensors.html?net

IPv6 expert sees adoption growing… slowly

After many years of hemming and hawing, IPv6 looks like it is finding its place in the world. But that’s just me talking. To get a more authoritative view, we went to Jim Bound, chair of the North American IPv6 Task Force and CTO of the IPv6 Forum. Here’s the interview.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704ipv6qa.html?net

Anti-spam group disbands

The group working on a standard designed to help slow the onslaught of spam imploded last week amid intellectual property issues and in-fighting, but the co-author of the specification says he will introduce a new one shortly that he hopes will sidestep such issues.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/092704ietfspam.html?net

HP drops Itanium workstations

HP has stopped selling workstations based on Intel’s Itanium 2 microprocessor, a company spokeswoman confirmed Friday.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0924hpdrops.html?net

Today on Layer 8, where we’re begging Mother Nature to leave the Sunshine State alone:

MIT eyes spinach-powered computing; Could you quit the ‘Net cold turkey?; ’80s video game characters remake Van Halen’s “Jump” video; and the winner of the latest Weekly Caption Contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

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