The Internet of things

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: October 27, 2004 12:43:58 AM EDT
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Subject: The Internet of things

The Internet of things
Start-ups jump into next big thing: tiny networked chips

By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff  |  October 25, 2004

At a renovated textile warehouse near Boston's Fort Point Channel,
where 50 employees of Ember Corp. are moving this month from cramped
quarters next door, young engineers are busy lining the walls with
600 wireless sensor nodes -- each containing a low-powered radio
frequency microchip mounted on a printed circuit board.

Technologists at Ember and a batch of other start-ups on both coasts
believe such ''mesh networks" with their ''radios" -- tiny chips just
seven millimeters long and seven millimeters wide -- will be the next
big thing in the high-tech world, wirelessly ferrying data between
hundreds of sensors throughout homes, factories, and office buildings.

...

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/10/25/ 
the_internet_of_things/




Ethernet creator evangelizes on new networking revolution

By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff  |  October 25, 2004

WALTHAM -- Bob Metcalfe -- inventor, entrepreneur, pundit, and
venture capitalist -- is just back from Europe and jet-lagged.

Padding about the immaculate offices of Polaris Venture Partners, his
current base of operation, Metcalfe enters a conference room in a
white business shirt and sandals and begins expounding on his latest
technology crusade: a ''system on a chip," which will form the
backbone of the coming wireless sensor networking revolution.

...

http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2004/10/25/ 
ethernet_creator_evangelizes_on_new_networking_revolution/


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