Millennial Net Wins Sensors Express Readers' Choice Award
i-Beans® Selected Most Popular Product among Sensors Magazine Subscribers
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Dec. 5, 2003 – Millennial Net, Inc., the leading developer of hardware and software for self-organizing wireless sensor networks, today announced that the company received a Readers' Choice Award from Sensors Express, the bi-weekly e-newsletter written by the editors of Sensors magazine. Readers of Sensors and Sensors Express selected Millennial Net's i-Bean® wireless sensor networking system as the most exciting and innovative product in the sensor networking industry.
"Since appearing as part of the editorial coverage in past issues of Sensors magazine, Millennial Net's i-Bean system has garnered widespread interest and enthusiasm from our readers, many of whom are looking for ways to quickly and easily add wireless communications to their products and environments," said Melanie Martella, features and products editor for Sensors. "Striking differentiators like the i-Bean’s tiny size, extremely low rate of power consumption and clever design impressed our readers and editors more than any other wireless networking product, making the i-Bean the obvious choice for the Readers' Choice Award recognition."
Each month the editors at Sensors magazine award the sensor product most popular among its subscriber base with a Readers' Choice Award and showcase it in the Sensors Express e-newsletter. Sensors Express highlighted the i-Bean's technology and customer value propositions, including its ultra-small form factor and low-power capabilities, which enable self-organizing wireless sensor networking computing devices to connect over low data-rate wireless networks. These characteristics make i-Beans suitable for enabling hundreds of industrial, medical, consumer and military applications and anywhere sensing devices must communicate with each other with limited power and human administration for years at a time.
"Receiving the Sensors Express Readers' Choices Award from a distinguished authority on sensor products, technology and systems is testament both to the influence Millennial Net has had in the marketplace over the last year and the increasing need for wireless networking solutions that expand the range of options available to engineers, sensors systems integrators and end users," said Andy May, chief executive officer, Millennial Net. "By offering a highly flexible solution with a very low total cost of ownership, we are able to offer customers the ability to quickly increase revenue opportunities and system performance."
The Sensors Express Readers' Choice Award adds to Millennial Net's recent industry honors and recognitions, which include a Best of Sensors Award from Sensors Expo and inclusion on the FocalPoint 40, a listing of the top 40 companies innovating, shaping and promoting machine-to-machine (M2M) communications as identified by research organization The FocalPoint Group, Inc.
About Millennial Net
Millennial Net, Inc. is the world’s leading developer of hardware and software for self-organizing wireless sensor networks. Millennial Net's award-winning networking software and tiny micro-power network elements, called i-Beans®, combine to deliver robust, fully integrated solutions for sensor networks. Patent-pending engineering enables the i-Bean to operate with an extremely low rate of power consumption on the energy of a 3-volt coin battery, environmental vibrations or solar energy. The small size, flexibility and low power-consumption capabilities of the i-Bean expand the range of engineering options for systems integrators and sensor OEMS, increasing revenue opportunities and enhancing customer experience and applications. i-Beans enable wireless sensors to be placed in locations never before possible and networked together for the remote monitoring and managing of critical business and life functions, providing continuous streams of previously unattainable data to enable more informed decision-making. Wireless sensor networks are in use today remotely tracking inventory across the supply chain, monitoring patient vital signs and detecting environmental conditions like high CO2 levels. i-Beans have immediately utility in hundreds of industrial, medical, consumer and military applications and anywhere sensing devices must communicate with each other with limited power and human administration for years at a time. For more information, visit www.millennial.net.