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Wireless Sensor Networking for Other Industries
The MeshScape wireless sensor networking platform can be deployed across a range of industries. Flexible and robust enough to meet a broad spectrum of application requirements, MeshScape has enabled wireless sensor networking to be embedded in applications including medical and agriculture.
MeshScape delivers:
- Reliable connectivity – MeshScape networks are the most robust wireless sensor networks offering the highest reliability of data delivery from sensor to host application in the industry.
- Responsiveness – The MeshScape system’s ultra-efficient, light-weight topology discovery method is highly-responsive to mobile sensors and dynamic environments.
- Power efficiency – The MeshScape system, based on an extremely lightweight protocol, offers one of the most power-efficient solutions on the market today.
- High reliability – MeshScape networks are the most robust wireless sensor networks offering the highest reliability of data delivery from sensor to host application in the industry.
- Scalability – The MeshScape system’s proven ability to scale along a variety of dimensions – including range, interference, and mobility – provides a level of scalability unmatched in the industry.
- Fast time to deployment – MeshScape delivers a complete system including ready-to-embed hardware modules and assemblies to enable speedy integration, cost-effective development, and fast time to deployment.
Medical Applications
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Unwiring for Improved Patient Monitoring |
Customer: |
A leading global manufacturer of automation solutions. |
Goal: |
The healthcare market is a new strategic focus for this company. Their vision was to develop a new generation of medical devices to enable medical devices such as blood pressure monitors, blood glucose meters, thermometers, and body fat scales to transmit data wirelessly to a handheld device, such as a PDA. |
Solution: |
The MeshScape system provides an on-demand data model that supports highly mobile nodes in the network where a gateway device enters the network, automatically binds to that network and gathers data, then leaves the network. With this model, one mobile gateway can bind to multiple networks and multiple mobile gateways can bind to a given network. This is exactly the data model this company needed to develop its next-generation medical monitoring system. With this system, patients in a hospital wear sensors to monitor the various vital signs and doctors access that data via a PDA that is a mobile gateway or a PC via a USB gateway. A doctor enters a room and the mobile PDA automatically binds with the network associated with that patient and downloads vital sensor data. When the doctor enters a second patient’s room, the PDA automatically binds with that network and downloads the second patient’s data. |
Benefits: |
The benefits of wireless monitoring applications are multifold. Patients’ comfort is improved by removing the encumbrance of wires. Patients can also be continuously monitored even while ambulatory. Medical personnel can retrieve vital signs and other medical data quickly and in real time, enabling them to monitor more patients without reducing quality of care. Patients can be monitored remotely enabling patient care to extend to the home. And since recording of the medical data is automatic, human error is minimized. |
Agriculture Applications
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Better Wine Through Wireless Sensor Networking |
Customer: |
Accenture Technology Labs and Pickberry, a vineyard that produces high-quality grapes for wine. |
Goal: |
The higher the quality of grape, the higher the price it can fetch; the vineyard can see a four-fold difference in the price of grapes produced in different parts of the vineyard in the same growing season. The variation is due to a range of environmental factors; some grapes get too much shade and/or moisture while others get too little. Pickberry participated in a sensor telemetry pilot by Accenture Technology Labs to monitor and control these factors. |
Solution: |
Using Millennial Net’s MeshScape wireless sensor networking system, the vineyard installed air temperature, humidity, soil temperature, and soil moisture sensors throughout the vineyard. This enables the vineyard to target irrigation when soil in one area dries, or remove leaves to expose grapes to more sun, or change the schedule for using pesticides. |
Benefits: |
As a result of the increased monitoring capabilities, there are fewer variations in the quality of the grapes harvested and the overall quality of the harvest is higher, increasing the revenues the vineyard can generate from the harvest. |
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Reference Kits
Wireless Sensor Networking Reference Kits for Fast Prototyping
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