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Hong Kong's Insight Robotics Limited has been commissioned to develop a wireless sensor network capable of quickly reporting forest fires. The company will work in conjunction with the Qingyuan Forestry Bureau and Guangdong Academy of Forestry. The self-repairing mesh network, which was recently tested, monitors forest environments for changes in humidity, temperature, gas levels and infrared visuals to report fires within 0.5 seconds. China loses two percent of its forests to fires every year. More...

Linear Technologies has completed its acquisition of Dust Networks, a provider of low-power wireless sensor network technology which is best known for the development of "Smart Dust." More...

The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute has announced its latest supplier members: Perpetuum, a maker of vibration energy harvesters for wireless technology, and Phoenix Contact, a maker of industrial connection technology, automation technology and electronic interface systems. More...

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RFaxis debuted its latest product at January's DistribuTECH conference: a 2.4GHz single-chip ZigBee RF Front-end IC "which features a power amplifier, low-noise amplifier and antenna diversity switch all in single-die CMOS process." More...

Wireless products from Dynastream Innovations, including their ANT and ANT+ nodes, will now be available through Digi-Key, an electronics components distributor. More...

Cambium Networks has introduced a series of new wireless products which it says are "designed to meet performance, security and environmental requirements of government applications." One product line, the PTP 600 Series of Point-to-Point fixed broadband solutions, has been certified for use by the Department of Defense's Defense Information Systems Agency. More...

The new GreenNet Wireless Sensor Networking platform, coming soon from STMicroelectronics, will enable monitoring and control of home or building conditions such as temperature, carbon monoxide or movement. More...

MicroStrain, Inc. has earned the Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Leadership for its SensorCloud system, which connects sensors to the Internet and can visualize and graph the massive amounts of data collected by sensor networks. More...

A new wireless acoustic transmitter manufactured by Emerson Process Management uses a WirelessHART monitoring system to collect data on steam traps and pressure release valves. More...

The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company has selected the WatcherSystem personnel safety system from Identec Solutions to monitor conditions and worker locations in its underground Hard Rock Laboratory. More...