An effective wireless-sensor network requires the integration of two key components: low-cost, low-power, scalable hardware and manageable software. The industry has shown signs of delivering on the ...

The Internet of Things revolution is upon us, and by the year 2020, there will be over 30 billion connected things in the world. With the world’s population increasing and resources becoming more ...

Two similar wireless standards—WirelessHart and ISA 100.11a—are competing for dominance as the enabler of smart instrumentation and all its promised benefits. Some users, however, are seeking ...

Well-established principles, appropriate protocols and ciphers, and the randomness inherent in the physics of thermal noise add up to fortify systems to ensure they are both secure and efficient. The ...

There are many reasons to anticipate that the use of wireless instrumentation in industrial settings will increase dramatically in the next few years. However, certain stumbling blocks could curtail ...

The wireless sensor networking sector just got a little more crowded, with the formal launch of Arch Rock Corp. (www.archrock.com). The San Francisco start-up was founded in mid-2005 to develop ...

Labs Electronics’ Challenger+ RP2040 LoRa Mk II is a small development board based on the dual-core 133MHz RP2040 ...

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology is widely used across a myriad of industries to monitor large structures or complex environments. This monitoring solution has made its way to the asphalt ...

Wireless Sensor Networks will open the floodgates to the wireless revolution. But building a practical wireless network can be a daunting challenge unless the concepts are kept simple. Nobody can ...

Wireless sensor networks are nothing new to Hackaday, but [Felix]’s wireless PIR sensor node is something else entirely. Rarely do we see something so well put together that’s also so well designed ...