EDN Selects Millennial Net i-Bean® as Innovation of the Year Finalist
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--March 3, 2004--Millennial Net, Inc., the leading developer of self-organizing wireless sensor networks, today announced that its 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.
Innovation of the Year nominees must have demonstrated innovation that resulted in a significant advance in technology and product development in the past 12 months, and the product must have shipped in volume in the 2003 calendar year. EDN technical editors determine finalists in each category and selected Millennial Net's i-Bean product line in the Embedded Products category.
"We always get an outstanding set of entries to our Innovation program," said EDN Editor-in-Chief Maury Wright. "The chosen finalists should be proud of their selection because many worthy products missed the cut."
i-Beans are ultra-small, ultra-low power wireless sensor networking devices that run on coin batteries and can utilize energy harvesting technology to enable battery-free wireless sensor networking anywhere. They 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.
"EDN's selection of Millennial Net as an Innovation finalist is an incredible honor given the publication's influence in the industry and its first-rate coverage of the needs of the electronic design and development engineering community," said Tod Riedel, vice president of business development for Millennial Net. "EDN's acknowledgement of our i-Bean technology further validates our winning proposition for electronics OEMs: enabling engineers to design wireless sensor networking products with the fastest time to market, the lowest total cost of ownership and highest degree of flexibility."
Millennial Net will next be demonstrating its i-Bean technology at the Industrial Wireless Applications Summit, March 8-10, 2004, in San Diego, Calif.
About EDN
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About Millennial Net
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., 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.