Dust Networks Promotes IP Wireless Sensor Technology

Dust Networks, a supplier of wireless sensor networking products, joins the Internet Protocol for Smart Objects (IPSO) Alliance as a founding member. The IPSO Alliance, affiliated with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), is focused on the use of Internet Protocol (IP) networking in urban infrastructure, building automation, utility metering, and other wireless sensor networking applications.

Founder and CTO of Dust Networks, Kris Pister, also co-authored a set of formal requirements for routing in low power and lossy networks approved by the IETF. The technical framework lays the foundation for next generation IP-based wireless sensor networks, ensuring end-users long battery life and high reliability when connecting wireless sensors in the physical world to the Internet, says the company.

“Urban environments share many of the same features as the industrial locations we have experience with - tons of concrete, steel and glass. The potential for IP-based wireless sensor technology in areas such as the development of efficient urban infrastructure and energy conservation applications in building automation are very compelling," says Pister.