Millennial Net Launches 2.4GHz Version of its Award-Winning Wireless Sensor Networking Devices
2.4Ghz i-Bean® Endpoints, Routers and Gateways Bring New Functionality and Flexibility to the Worldwide Wireless Sensor Networking Marketplace
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—January 20, 2004—Millennial Net, Inc., the leading developer of self-organizing wireless sensor networks, today announced the release of its 2.4 GHz i-Bean® Endpoints, Routers and Gateways. i-Beans are ultra-small, ultra-low power wireless sensor networking devices that run on coin batteries and enable wireless sensor networking anywhere.
Millennial Net's 2.4GHz i-Beans complement its existing line of 434MHz, 868MHz and 916MHz versions and provide customers with a complete choice of products for specific applications and critical requirements such as network transmission distance, battery life, interference avoidance and compliance with regional radio regulations. Millennial Net's 2.4GHz i-Beans are compliant with worldwide radio transmission regulations and give customers a single radio standard for global distribution.
Leveraging a portfolio of radio technologies, including micro-power narrowband and 802.15.4-based radios as well as wireless personal area network (WPAN) components, i-Bean-enabled sensors form self-organizing networks for wireless communications between sensors and control devices without the need for human administration and with very low power consumption.
"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."
i-Beans are self-contained, miniature computers with a built-in power source, flash memory and peripheral devices, including a digital I/O interface, A/D converter and a radio frequency (RF) transceiver for two-way communication. i-Beans also contain a serial interface to enable easy connection to existing sensors with RS-232 interfaces. i-Beans can transmit and receive data to a range of more than 30 meters. The radius of an i-Bean network can be extended to hundreds of meters by using wireless, battery-powered (or AC-powered) i-Bean Routers.
The 2.4Ghz i-Bean is available now in an Evaluation Kit for prototyping. The kit includes five i-Bean transmitter/receivers, three i-Bean Routers and one i-Bean Gateway, along with accompanying software and documentation. The price for the i-Bean Evaluation Kit is $4,500.
Millennial Net will next be demonstrating its i-Bean technology at SIcon/04 Sensors for Industry Conference and Exhibition, Jan. 27-29, 2004, in New Orleans.
About Millennial Net
Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with offices in Tokyo, Japan, Millennial Net is the world's leading developer of hardware and software for self-organizing, low power wireless sensor networks. Millennial Net's award-winning networking software and tiny micro-power hardware elements, called i-Beans®, allow instrumentation and sensing devices like gauges, sensors and actuators to connect and communicate with each other over self-organizing, self-healing 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-sized battery for years at a time. Wireless sensor networks enable the remote monitoring and management of critical devices while providing continuous streams of previously unavailable data to enable more informed decision-making, better control and increased revenue opportunities. Wireless sensor networks are in use today in the industrial, medical, consumer and military applications. Millennial Net is committed to advancing Wireless Sensor Networking...Anywhere. For more information, please visit www.millennial.net.