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| Tendril and Atmel to Accelerate Deployments of WSCN Applications Tendril is cooperating with Atmel to accelerate and simplify customer deployments of WSCN applications. Through this relationship, Atmel and Tendril will integrate and bundle Atmel's AVR Z-Link 802.15.4/ZigBee hardware solution and Tendril's first-of-its-kind network operations platform software for WSCN – enabling customers to quickly and easily integrate and deploy the Atmel wireless networking platform with IP networks, PC/PDA-based applications and other aspects of enterprise computing systems. Tendril offers the first and only easy-to-build network operations platform for deploying, commissioning, provisioning, securing, monitoring and managing WSCNs. Tendril's distributed platform allows organizations to fully leverage the power of WSCN implementations that integrate different types of low-power sensors/actuators with traditionally networked computing systems. The Tendril network operations platform provides an integrated server-side "broker" and device-side "agent", along with associated network bridging software, for monitoring, managing, and integrating WSCNs. This approach allows OEMs to integrate wireless networking capabilities into their products in less than a week and provides system integrators with the ability to quickly add well-monitored WSCNs to deployments in the field. Through this relationship, Tendril and Atmel will also collaborate on a variety of co-marketing activities, support each other's field sales operations, and jointly provide support for the bundled solution. Atmel's solution includes its ultra low-power, high-sensitivity 2.4 GHz AT86RF230 802.15.4 radio, a choice of ultra-low-power AVR microcontrollers with flash densities of 64-, 128- or 256KB, and a small footprint, fully compliant media access control (MAC) software optimized for the AVR architecture. This chip combination consumes less than 2 uA in sleep mode and has a 103 dB link budget with an operating range of up to 2.8 times that of any 802.15.4 solution on the market today. The wider operating range means that an 802.15.4 system can be deployed with fewer nodes, significantly reducing system cost. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |