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- EE Times Europe
AeroScout is in the business of assets tracking. It provides its customers with battery-powered wireless tags that use triangulation techniques in standard Wi-Fi networks. The company claims a geolocation to within 3 to 5 meters indoor. Some of its most sophisticated tags feature bi-directional communication or even integrate a GPS unit capable of tracking the tag’s physical location to within 5 to 10 meters in remote outdoor locations that would not be reached by Wi-Fi. Applications are plentiful, ranging from ID badges for patient or staff monitoring in large hospitals, to car tracking on parking lots, or logistics in shipping yards and manufacturing facilities...
MicroStrain is an early adopter of DecaWave's ScenSor technology and is currently prototyping a new breed of stress monitoring sensors that would take advantage of DecaWave's low power Ultra Wideband solution. "Just looking at power consumption which is often a limiting factor for battery based sensor networks, our next-generation of devices based on the ScenSor radio could operate for ten times longer than with the current ZigBee solutions we use at the moment" said Chris Townsend, vice president of MicroStrain.
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