• Electronic Design News Selects i-Bean as Innovation of the Year Finalist
  
• 2.4GHz i-Bean Evaluation Kits Now Available
  
• Co-founder Tod Riedel to Speak at Two Upcoming Events
  
• Co-founder and CTO Sokwoo Rhee to Speak at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
  
• Millennial Net to Sponsor Tridium Niagara Summit
  

Millennial Net's i-Bean product line has been selected from a field of hundreds as a finalist for this year's EDN Innovator/Innovation Awards. This exclusive awards program honors truly outstanding electronic products as well as the creative engineers who invent them. Nominees must have demonstrated innovation that resulted in a significant advance in technology and product development in the past twelve months. The i-Bean is one of five finalists in the "Embedded Products" category. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on March 29th in San Francisco. For more information, please visit the EDN website.

Millennial Net's 2.4GHz i-Bean Endpoints, Routers and Gateways are available now in an Evaluation Kit for prototyping. The kit includes five i-Bean Endpoints, three i-Bean Routers and one i-Bean Gateway, along with accompanying software and documentation. 2.4GHz i-Beans are compliant with worldwide radio transmission regulations and give customers a single radio standard for global distribution.

"Development of the 2.4GHz i-Beans is consistent with our commitment to offer the highest degree of choice and flexibility in the OEM and systems integrators marketplace," said Andy May, president and chief executive officer of Millennial Net. "Our 2.4GHz-based product allows our OEM and SI customers to maintain a single, global stock keeping unit (SKU) for their products while taking advantage of worldwide standards."

Fast Time to Market
The 2.4GHz Evaluation Kit is a great way for customers to become familiar with i-Bean technologies and prepare their first bench prototypes for their devices. The Evaluation Kit offers a fast track to "proof of concept" and early pilots. Several customers have used our Evaluation Kits for pilot projects, using as many as 400 Endpoints without any change to their existing product line. This helps them establish design parameters quickly and results in a very fast time to market for their end-product. Please contact us for quotes.

The price for the i-Bean Evaluation Kit is $4,500.

Tod will discuss the opportunities and challenges in wireless sensor networking, as well as present a live demo of a self-organizing wireless sensor network at the Industrial Wireless Applications Summit and Showcase 2004, March 8-10 at the San Diego Convention Center. In addition to speaking, Millennial Net will also be exhibiting and providing live demos at the show in booth #711. For more information on exhibiting or attending the show, please visit the Summit website.

Tod will also speak at Wireless Ventures 2004, VentureWire's third annual private-equity forum on mobile computing and data communications. Set for April 20-21 in Redwood City, CA, the conference will focus on the productivity and efficiency of new technologies, spotlighting the startups and strategies that are achieving returns on investment even in these difficult times. Tod will discuss the benefits, challenges, and market applications for self-organizing wireless sensor networks.

Millennial Net is a proud platinum sponsor of Tridium's inaugural Niagara Summit. The Summit will take place May 2-4 at the beautiful Saddlebrook Resort in Tampa, Florida. Niagara has emerged as the leading solution for creating applications that connect smart devices to each other and to the enterprise. The Niagara Summit will provide a forum for the open exchange of Niagara-based ideas, methods, techniques, and developments in the field of MSM communications and the Niagara Framework. For more information on exhibiting or attending the show, please visit Tridium's Niagara Summit website.