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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 4:27:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Deal with Crossbow Technology will enable Honeywell OEMs to offer an end-to-end, untethered sensor network for a variety of industrial automation applications. |
Honeywell International Inc. yesterday unfurled a technology partnership with Crossbow Technology Inc. to integrate its sensor products with Crossbow's wireless network interfaces, gateways, and components. Under the terms of the deal, Honeywell Sensing and Control (S&C), a division of the company's Automation and Control Solutions business, is packaging a three-node sensor network development kit and sensors with Crossbow's wireless mesh networking technology, including TinyOS -- a low-level event and task management open source operating environment. The turnkey offering, called XBW, enables industrial products OEMs to offer an end-to-end wireless mesh network that complies with the IEEE 802.15.4 radio standard as well as the Zigbee standard. "Networking wireless sensors and integrating sensor data increases the ROI of sensor applications and enables new applications that were not previously economical," said Pat Murray, vice president of Honeywell Electronic Sensing, in a statement. "By working with Crossbow, we provide our customers with a Honeywell wireless sensor network solution they can trust." [Click to continue] |
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