Millennial Net Invited to Join Japan's Cyber Assist Research Consortium
Wireless Sensor Networking Innovator Becomes First U.S. Member
of Group Dedicated to Anywhere, Anytime Computing
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Sept. 8, 2003 – Millennial Net, Inc., the leading developer of hardware and software for self-organizing, wireless sensor networks, today announced that it has joined the Cyber Assist Research Center Consortium organized by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). AIST is an international research organization whose mission is to improve collaboration among industry, government and academia in the fields of science and technology. The Cyber Assist Research Center (CARC), led by renowned Japanese scientist Dr. Hideyuki Nakashima, was formed with the goal of enhancing the development of information processing systems so that they can be used anywhere, at any time, by people without special training.
"The global IT community is coming together to define best practices for technology and standards, and wireless innovations like embedded sensor networks are one of the most interesting developments under evaluation today," Nakashima said. "With Millennial Net as a key and contributing member of the consortium, AIST is affiliated with the leading provider of wireless sensor networking technologies."
"For Millennial Net, participation in one of the foremost international technology groups is validation of our technology and its commercial value," said Tod Riedel, Millennial Net co-founder. "Our vision of a safer, more convenient and more productive world using i-Bean®-enabled sensors fits perfectly with the charter of the Cyber Assist Research Center. Millennial Net's low-power and robust networking technology is vital to sensor networks that rely on a very small form factor and an extremely long battery life. The possibilities associated with ad-hoc wireless sensor networking are just beginning to be realized, and Millennial Net and the CARC are poised to turn innovations like our i-Bean technology into products for everyday life."
Millennial Net recently launched the latest version of its ultra-small, ultra-low power wireless sensor networking device, the i-Bean 5000. The company has already received industry accolades for its technology, including winning a Best of Sensors Award at Sensor Expo 2003.
About AIST
AIST is Japan's largest public research organization with nine research facilities and 3,200 employees. AIST encourages the exchange of information among research communities to foster intellectual creativity and unites the research potentials of universities, the private sector and government agencies with the aim of producing world-class results. At the same time, it contributes to the intellectual wealth of the nation and, moreover, to that of humankind through positive activities in establishing technological standards.
About Millennial Net
Millennial Net, Inc. produces hardware and software to build reliable, low-power wireless sensor networks. Millennial Net's tiny, micro-power network elements, called i-Beans®, are used in industrial automation, building automation, supply chain management, automatic meter reading, security, homeland defense and other low-power, low data-rate applications. Millennial Net was founded on the vision that an i-Bean-enabled world is a safer, more convenient and more productive world. Millennial Net is the leader in ultra-small, ultra-low power wireless computing devices in self-organizing networks for the consumer, industrial, medical and military markets. For more information, visit www.millennial.net.