Linear Technology announced the acquisition
of Dust Networks, a provider of low power wireless sensor network (WSN)
technology.
The acquisition of Dust Networks will
enable Linear to offer a complete high performance wireless sensor networking
solution.
Dust Networks’ low power radio and software
technology complements Linear’s strengths in industrial instrumentation, power
management and energy harvesting technology.
“Dust Networks offers the lowest power
radio technology and most complete networking software for building
industrial-grade wireless sensor networks. Combined with Linear’s precision
low-power sensor interface products and battery-free energy harvesting
technology, we can now offer the industry’s highest performance remote
monitoring solutions,” said Erik Soule, vice president of Signal Conditioning and High Frequency products
for Linear Technology.
With the growing importance of
machine-to-machine communications to enable remote data acquisition, low power
wireless sensing is an emerging solution for many end-markets.
Dust Networks’ ultralow power wireless
systems complements Linear’s analog and digital sensor interface ICs, and
energy harvesting power management products in applications where measurement
of physical parameters has traditionally been impractical or impossible.
Dust Networks’ customers range includes GE,
Emerson, Vigilent and Streetline Networks.
Dust Networks’ technology can be found in a
variety of monitoring and control solutions, including data center energy
management, renewable energy, remote monitoring, and transportation.
Recently, Dust Networks demonstrated a SmartMesh IP 6LoWPAN wireless network running on
harvested energy at the IDTechEx Wireless Sensor Network & RTLS Summit in
Munich.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com