Competitive pressures, globalization, rising energy prices, and increasingly stringent regulations are driving companies to cut costs while increasing efficiency and productivity. Industry leaders ...

Wireless Sensor Networks will open the floodgates to the wireless revolution. But building a practical wireless network can be a daunting challenge unless the concepts are kept simple. Nobody can ...

Wireless sensor networks could transform how people track and manage their environments, but cost and other factors are holding the technology back. Someday, wireless sensors may observe battlefields ...

The second of two parts examines redundancy, diversity and other factors in network deployment. See part 1. This is because two pairs of nodes communicating on different frequencies will not interfere ...

Gaetano Borriello at U. Washington; Intel, Small embedded computers and communications protocols; Deborah Estrin at U. California, Los Angeles, Networking, middleware, data handling, and hardware for ...