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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 5:05:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Tendril Networks breathes new life into the ZigBee open standard by marketing software for operations and management of wireless mesh networks. |
| Keywords: | Creating wireless mesh network, ZigBee based wireless, wireless network in manufacturing, Tendril Networks, ZigBee Alliance, IEEE 802.15.4, Ember, Texas Instruments, Tridium, wireless mesh networks |
In a pioneering move that could broaden the acceptance of the low-powered mesh networking open standard created by the ZigBee Alliance, Tendril Networks Inc. is bringing to market operations and management software for wireless mesh networks. Tendril on Tuesday announced its second-generation Network Operating Platform for building ZigBee-based applications. In addition, the wireless mesh software company unveiled new diagnostics and monitoring applications that include hooks into the ZigBee standard. With these announcements, Tendril adds a critical element to the toolkit for manufacturers looking to deploy a ZigBee-based wireless mesh network. To date, the ecosystem of ZigBee-compliant products has been limited to hardware and protocol stacks, Tendril officials said. "ZigBee is moving out of the lab and into operational settings," said Tim Enwall, Tendril's COO, in an interview with Managing Automation. [Click to continue] |
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